I've been on a Louis Prima/Keely Smith kick lately and while diving deep into the depths of YouTube I stumbled across this gem.

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Holy smokes! Compared to other videos of the two, which all seem to be B&W with terrible quality, this one really gets me! Color and good quality. I'm not sure what program it's from, but I love it!

Some say this is one of the earliest color videotape recordings in existence.

I love how Keely mocks Loius moves during the performance.

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Mr. Lahey: A lot of people, don’t know how to drink. They drink against the grain of the liquor. And when you drink against the grain of the liquor? You lose.

Randy: What the @#$%& are you talking about?

Keely is great.

Imagine the gear needed to record and play that, at the time.

And somebody got a dupe of that to upload.

Keely Smith had that rare quality of a singer – a musical voice like a pure sine wave.

I remember seeing them on TV once in awhile, and Black Magic was a huge song back then.

She was a truly great singer and performer.

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When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

Everybody matters or nobody matters.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

-An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

Mister, that's a ten-gallon hat on a twenty-gallon head.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

....once you go Old Black......you never go old back......???

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I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Geez, I loved those old variety shows when i was a kid. Such great talents.

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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Western Massachusetts

This topic makes me feel downright YOUNG!

thanks!

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Dennis S
Keely is great.

Keely was great.

“On December 16, 2017, Smith died of apparent heart failure in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 89.[17] She is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills.”