Keely Smith
USA
Born: 09 March 1932
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Styles: Traditional Pop, Vocal/Standards, Swing, Big Band/Swing, Vocal Jazz, Jump Blues, East Coast Blues, Urban Blues, Jazz-Pop, Contemporary Jazz, Fusion
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Keely Smith is mostly known as the duet partner of Louis Prima, she took the straighter role in their raucous, just-this-side-of-parodical blends of jazz, jump blues, and Italian pop, on record and in their Vegas-oriented shows. Smith, however, was also a reasonably talented singer of straight pop material, although not in the same class as the leading female vocalists of the 1950s. Her most respected solo recordings are her earliest Prima-less outings, made for Capitol in the late '50s with orchestral direction by Nelson Riddle and Billy May. ...
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