Louis Prima - Rocks (CD)

The Godfather of cool! The greatest hits of lounge Rock 'n' Roll! Features the original honkin' sax man, Sam Butera! - 'I'm not trying to say that Louis Prima, Keely Smith and Sam Butera had any appeal for 50's teens,' writes Billy Vera in his liner notes. 'They did not, but what they were playing was, in every other sense, Rock 'n' Roll. Rocking music for the working guys who were past high school and unlikely to attend college.' Louis Prima came out of New Orleans and his high energy music was, as Billy Vera says, Rock 'n' Roll in all but name, so he well and truly belongs in our acclaimed ROCKS! Series. Out of fashion for years, Prima came back with a vengeance as the unseen star of a movie, 'Big Night,' and the Godfather of the Nineties Swing craze when rocker David Lee Roth revived his 'Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody' and clubs and young bands played this music for a whole new generation of dancers who dressed in the clothes of an earlier, hipper time. Writer Nick Tosches was the first to rehabilitate Louis Prima: 'He presaged the Rock 'n' Roll of the ridiculous. He perceived and embraced in all it's tutti-frutti glory, the spirit of post-literate, made-for-television America.'

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Buona Sera
2. Hey Boy, Hey Girl
3. Pennies from Heaven
4. Jump, Jive, An' Wail
5. When You're Smiling/The Sheik of Araby
6. Oh Marie
7. The Pump Song
8. I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
9. Bim Bam
10. Beep! Beep!
11. Five Months, Two Weeks, Two Days
12. Be Mine (Little Baby)
13. Whistle Stop
14. Oh, Marie
15. Bourbon Street Blues
16. When the Saints Go Marching in
17. Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody
18. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
19. Seven Out
20. Ten Little Women
21. Equator
22. Fever
23. Shy
24. Love Charm
25. Put Your Mind at Ease
26. Rock-A-Doodle-Doo
27. Much Too Young to Loose My Mind
28. Angelina/Zooma Zooma
29. The White Cliffs of Dover
30. Hey Boy, Hey Girl (Reprise)