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This excellent eight-disc Bear Family box celebrates Louis Prima's Capitol Recordings of the '50s and '60s. Since his wife and comedic foil Keely Smith and Sam Butera and the Witnesses (Prima's ace backing unit) both recorded as solo acts during this period, they're exhaustively represented by this box as well. The first three discs cover all of Prima's studio sides and starts up the live recordings with the 1962 Harrah's Club in Tahoe sides, while disc four covers all of the seminal live tracks from 1957 and 1958. Discs five and six are the complete Keely Smith solo recordings, while the last two round up all the sides by Sam Butera and the Witnesses. The truly amazing thing about the 199 (!!!) tracks collected here is how little of it is unissued material. Even if Prima cut some duds now and then, it's pretty wild that Capitol used up damn near every last thing the man ever committed to magnetic tape, such was the high quality of rockin' mayhem he was laying down. And rock it does, all of it infested with much good humor along with Prima's and Butera's other contribution to big-beat mania, the invention of the Vegas shuffle, a loping beat that could be sped up to almost double tempo on any given number. This effect -- the solid core of Prima's rockin' groove -- is best heard on tracks like "When You're Smiling/The Sheik of Araby," and the later version from the Hey Boy! Hey Girl! movie soundtrack of "Oh Marie" (stupendous in the scattin' and honkin' exchange between Prima and Butera), "Basin Street Blues/When It's Sleepy Time Down South," and, of course, "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody," the track that David Lee Roth brought to the charts in the '80s. The duets with Keely Smith ("I've Got You Under My Skin," "That Old Black Magic") and Sam Butera (Richard Berry's "Next Time") are here to savor as well and it's all very fine, indeed. After four discs of Prima's wild-ass genius, the next two of Smith with big-band backings from Nelson Riddle and Billy May will seem sedate by comparison, but they're '50s-style Capitol tracks with their own charm. Great tunes and arrangements, plus the inclusion of her duets with Frank Sinatra makes a nice bonus highlight. The final two discs of Sam Butera come much closer to Prima's rockin' slant on things, with rocked-up jazz classics and R&B tunes galore keeping the party goin' all night long. Needless to say, if you're a Louis Prima fan bordering on fanatic, this is the one to have.

CD1

01. Buona Sera (2:59)
02. Oh Marie! (2:28)
03. Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody (4:44)
04. Body and Soul (3:25)
05. Jump, Jive, an' Wail (3:29)
06. (Nothing's too Good) For My Baby (2:38)
07. I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You (3:15)
08. Basin Street Blues/When It's Sleepy Time Down South (4:14)
09. Night Train (2:48)
10. The Lip (2:19)
11. Whistle Stop (2:28)
12. Five Months, Two Weeks, Two Days (2:12)
13. Banana Split for My Baby (2:32)
14. Be Mine (Little Baby) (2:38)
15. When You're Smiling/Sheik of Araby (4:00)
16. The Birth of the Blues (2:50)
17. Blow, Red Blow (2:18)
18. When the Saints Go Marching in (4:19)
19. Sentimental Journey (2:27)
20. There'll Be No Next Time (3:13)
21. The Closer to the Bone (4:13)
22. I've Got the World on a String (2:28)
23. Much Too Young to Loose My Mind (1:57)
24. Don't Let a Memory (1:48)
25. Pennies from Heaven (2:20)
26. Baby Won't You Please Come Home (2:05)
27. Autumn Leaves (2:51)

CD2

01. The Pump Song (1:51)
02. The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (2:59)
03. Natural Buy (2:13)
04. Beep! Beep! (2:14)
05. If You Were the Only Girl (3:06)
06. Bourbon Street Blues (2:15)
07. Sing, Sing, Sing (4:08)
08. That Old Black Magic (2:57)
09. Judy (2:51)
10. Felicia No Capicia (3:00)
11. That's My Home (3:16)
12. Moonglow (2:54)
13. Gotta See Baby Tonight (2:33)
14. Fee Fie Foo (6:18)
15. The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round (2:38)
16. Fever (3:06)
17. Oh Marie (2:27)
18. Don't Take Your Love From Me (3:07)
19. Hey Boy, Hey Girl (2:54)
20. Lazy River (3:29)
21. Hey Boy, Hey Girl (reprise) (1:28)
22. Nothing's Too Good for My Baby (2:16)
23. Oh Marie (alternate take) (2:23)

CD3

01. I've Got You Under My Skin (2:40)
02. Don't Take Your Love From Me (2:08)
03. You're Just In Love (2:30)
04. Harlem Nocturne (2:42)
05. Glow-Worm (1:59)
06. Just One of Those Things (2:38)
07. All Night Long (2:54)
08. Lover Come Back to Me (2:35)
09. Everybody Knows (2:47)
10. Ain't Misbehavin'/'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (5:57)
11. Three Handed Woman (2:43)
12. St. Louis Blues (2:55)
13. Big Daddy (1:54)
14. John Ping Pong (2:37)
15. Ooh, Look What You've Done to Me (2:32)
16. Big Daddy (2:46)
17. Sonday Lover (2:08)
18. Little Girl Blues (3:20)

CD4

01. On the Sunny Side of the Street/Exactly Like You (6:11)
02. A Foggy Day (2:38)
03. How High the Moon (2:25)
04. Angelina/Zooma Zooma Zooma (medley) (4:16)
05. Don't Worry 'Bout Me/I'm in the Mood for Love (4:24)
06. Come Back to Sorrento (3:07)
07. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (3:39)
08. Robin Hood/Oh Babe! (5:32)
09. Judy (3:19)
10. Them There Eyes/Honeysuckle Rose (4:42)
11. Tiger Rag/Just Because (2:50)
12. Embraceable You/I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good (2:51)
13. Should I/I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me (5:53)
14. The White Cliffs of Dover (4:39)
15. Holiday for Strings (2:57)
16. Greenback Dollar Bill (3:20)
17. Love of My Life (O Sole Mio) (3:44)
18. Too Marvelous for Words (2:03)

CD5

01. I Wish You Love (2:37)
02. I Would Do Most Anything for You (2:29)
03. Shy (2:31)
04. Rock-a-Doodle-Doo (2:17)
05. Young and in Love (2:22)
06. You'll Never Know (2:14)
07. Good Behavior (2:21)
08. You Better Go Now (2:09)
09. As You Desire Me (2:58)
10. Fools Rush In (2:58)
11. Imagination (3:31)
12. You Go to Me Head (2:37)
13. Don't Take Your Love from Me (3:05)
14. When Your Lover Has Gone (3:09)
15. All the Things You Are (3:27)
16. When Day Is Done (3:51)
17. I Wish You Love (3:49)
18. Mr. Wonderfull (3:35)
19. If We Never Meet Again (3:17)
20. I Understand (2:23)
21. The Whipporwill (2:51)
22. You Are My Love (2:23)
23. Sometimes (2:27)
24. Just as Much (2:04)
25. Indian Love Call (3:03)
26. The Nearness of You (3:37)
27. Some One to Watch Over Me (2:59)

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