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Godddd....i wish i could be there !!!
dannyelACM 2 weeks ago
My dad always swore Louie Prima was the greatest performer he'd ever seen live. I hated almost EVERYTHING my dad liked. Except for Louie Prima...he got that one right!
MichaelDominici 3 months ago
Thank you for sharing this video.
I was born in 61 and did not have the opportunity to see Louis or Sam play live. But this video and others is a great opportunity to see this real talent. These guys and ladies could play and entertain with the best.
San Jose, CA.
carbon4me 5 months ago 3
@carbon4me it's my pleasure, Carbon4me I met Sam a few times and he was a real gentleman. The show was great when I caught him in Hollywood, but it REALLY cooked in Vegas :) It makes me sad that so few people make music like this any more.
CadillacFrank 4 months ago
HIGH ENERGY!!!
tromboneJTS 7 months ago
@tromboneJTS I'm glad you found this. Your question in the other vid led me to this - and am I happy I found this. Every so often I look for Prima vids I hadn't seen. For some reason I never saw this until yesterday. What a find!
tb261 7 months ago
@tb261 Real entertainers. High energy! Like the interviews at the beginning. They really tell a story.
tromboneJTS 7 months ago
@tromboneJTS @tb261 the interviews are from the DVD "Louis Prima: The Wildest" -- it's a great documentary with lots of concert and early television footage. I had the honor of meeting Sam Butera twice before his passing and I would have loved to meet a character like Lou Sino, not to mention, the king of them all, Louis himself!
CadillacFrank 7 months ago
You must have really been a fan to know they called him Big Red. Always loved Lou Scioneaux, an INCREDIBLE trombonist, and an all around funny guy. I never got the chance to see him, but Sam told me they used to call him "Big Red" Scioneaux.
RainDog0680 8 months ago
I was in the audience a lot during performances in the Casbah theater of the Sahara Hotel. Loved Louis and Sam Butera and the Witnesses. Only saw Keely there a couple of times. Big Red was my favorite when he would get going and his head would miss the ceiling by a half inch as he bobbed up an down. Those were good times. Later at night, after Louis Prima would come Don Rickles and his outrageously funny schtick. Impossible to do today. :o(,
1Makyo 10 months ago
@1Makyo that's awesome!! Now the Sahara is gone too... it's like a curtain falling on good entertainment everywhere
CadillacFrank 7 months ago
@CadillacFrank It is like a curtain is falling on my life. What a life I've had. What a life most everyone had during the 50s and 60s.
1Makyo 7 months ago
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@CadillacFrank Del Webb's Sahara ushered in a new era in Vegas. It was the end of complimentary food, drink, entertainment, and the beginning of profit center food, entertainment and drink.. The end of "skimming" and the beginning of 3 people can't keep a secret accounting from the tables to the back room. The end of a good bartender "stealing" 10% of the take, and the beginning of machine measured drinks.
I guess there aren't many people left around who remember all this, so I will just
1Makyo 4 months ago
CadillacFrank,what a treat you've posted here.just love keely smith standing in the rear poker faced as usual.........great.thank you for the treat. tom d brick,nj.
doowopman49 10 months ago 2
@doowopman49 glad you like it :) Never another like Ol' Louis... I miss him terribly
CadillacFrank 10 months ago
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@CadillacFrank Don't know how old you are, but I looked an noticed you are from CHICAGO. My main mentor was from Chicago and was a 1%er at the Fremont Hotel. It was when Eddie Torres and Sam Levenson represented the Chicago mafia and the New York mafia there. Milton Friedman
"Uncle Miltie" got me in and out of a lot of trouble there. He was from CHICAGO and had owned 3 bars there before he came to VEGAS. He had the Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley and Wolfman Jack working for him in Chacago. He was a
1Makyo 4 months ago
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@CadillacFrank compulsive gambler.. He would get on the crap table about twice a year and make the front page of the Las Vegas Review Journal and the Sun when he would get "hot" on the table. Throwing lots of numbers and knowing how to bet (His goal was to make 1 million $ and then quit. He said. But he would overheat and have a heart attack and wind up in the Hospital every time. You can erase these comments if you like, just felt like chatting a little.
1Makyo 4 months ago