Louis Prima and Keely Smith - Hey Boy! Hey Girl! / Swingin Pretty '2009 (1959-Original)

Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. Hey Boy! Hey Girl!
02. Banana Split For My Baby
03. You Are My Love
04. Fever
05. Oh, Marie
06. Lazy River
07. Nitey-Nite
08. When The Saints Go Marching In
09. Autumn Leaves
10. Hey Boy! Hey Girl! (reprise)
11. Ive Got You Under My Skin (bonus track)
12. The Lip (bonus track)
13. (Nothings Too Good) For My Baby (bonus track)
14. Dont Let A Memory (bonus track)
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15. Its Magic
16. Its Been A Long, Long Time
17. Stormy Weather
18. Indian Love Call
19. The Nearness Of You
20. What Is This Thing Called Love?
21. The Man I Love
22. Youre Driving Me Crazy
23. Stardust
24. There Will Never Be Another You
25. Someone To Watch Over Me
26. What Can I Say After I Say Im Sorry?
27. A Foggy Day (Live) (bonus track)
28. Dont Take Your Love From Me (bonus track)

This DRG two-fer brings together two worthy and neglected Louis Prima/Keely
Smith Capitol albums from the late 50s. HEY BOY! HEY GIRL! is the soundtrack
album from the lounge duos 1959 film of the same name. Not as cheesy as it might
sound at first, it features Louis and Keely (and Sam Butera & the Witnesses) at
their Las Vegas peak. The title track is a brisk, lightly swinging duet from the
pair while Oh Marie almost delicately reprises Primas Sicilian heavoly scatting
classic from the previous years THE WILDEST! Saxophonist Butera gets his own
hipster vocal on Fever, and Keely sings at least two ballads, You Are My Love
and Autumn Leaves, to lend the proceedings a little class.

Smiths solo LP, 1959s SWINGIN PRETTY, with big band arrangments by Nelson
Riddle, also gets its first domestic CD release here. Strange to say, apart from
his justly famous collaboration with Frank Sinatra, Riddle probably did his best
work with Keely Smith, who was one of the best popular vocalists of her
generation. She wasnt particularly deep, or as versatile as Peggy Lee could be,
but her pitch-perfect exuberance has worn extremely well as swinging tunes, as
Its Magic (also a hit for Doris Day) and What Is This Thing Called Love amply
demonstrate. DRG has added six bonus tracks, including the classic duet Ive Got
You Under My Skin and Keelys superior hard-swinging version of Dont Take Your
Love From Me.

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