Swing Cat's Jamboree

Louis Prima plays some numbers with his usual small combo.

Most people my age who know Prima at all know him for providing the voice of King Louie in Disney's animated THE JUNGLE BOOK. Earlier, he had had success in a number of musical genres, from Dixieland, as here, through Big Band, through early Rock & Roll with his third wife, Keely Smith. Expensive tastes and losses at horse racing kept him from enjoying his success -- although you may argue that clothes and racetracks were how he enjoyed himself.