I especially love Keely Smith 's rendition of "When day is done " on Sinatra's show. In it she allows us to get a glimpse of the emotional and sensual side of her, instead of the usual deadpan expression whenever she's with Louis Prima. Together with a perfect Nelson Riddle arrangement, irresistible.
+Keely Brooke Thomas Gasser! Thanks for tuning in and commenting! Keely is my absolute favorite lady singer EVER...! We begged her to let us produce her biography after making the Rat Pack Bio for A&E in 1998-9, but she turned us down... as she has with everyone else... :) Here's something you'll love, Keely at the Hollywood Bowl with Nelson Riddle just after her split with Louis in '62... her voice is like an ANGEL! pastdaily.com/2013/12/01/keely-smith-concert-hollywood-bowl-1962-past-daily-pop-chronicles/ pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Keely-Smith-Hollywood-Bowl-1962.mp3
I have seen Keely perform 3 times in my life. 1 of those times was when she was a guest at a wedding I was catering and she performed. I begged my boss to let me have her table!! He did, and I waited on her all night!! Even helped her carry the centerpiece from her table to her car!! I stll get goosebumps. Keely is my favorite!
Dear Mikey- ME TOO! The GREATEST... Frank almost married her! :) I begged her to let me make her biography after making the 1999 A&E Biography of the Rat Pack, but she turned me down flat... Thank so much for your kind words- it's swell to meet another Keely Smith fanatic! Here's a link to a tremendous performance of hers- 1962 at the Hollywood Bowl with Nelson Riddle's (or possibly Billy May's) Orchestra... you're gonna love it... pastdaily.com/2013/12/01/keely-smith-concert-hollywood-bowl-1962-past-daily-pop-chronicles/
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I love her sooo much. One of the best Singers of all time!!!!! My friend Kelly got to sing with her, it was amazing!!!! Thanks for the link!!!
Mikey Trahant My pleasure, Mikey- a dear friend sent the link to me- we have a really great Facebook group called "Swing, Saloon and Croon"... if you're on Facebook, please drop in. The people there are very kind, and always find super stuff to listen to. Have you ever seen this biography of Louis Prima? :) Louis Prima - The Wildest Documentary
Mikey Trahant I just uploaded our 1998 interview with Keely, shot at her club in Palm Springs (Basin Street West)- hope that you enjoy it! VIVA KEELY! Keely Smith Interview 16 February 1998 Part 1 Also... this will FREAK YOU OUT! Keely at the Hollywood Bowl, 1962... It's either Nelson Riddle's or Billy May's band behind her... she's at the top of her game! pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Keely-Smith-Hollywood-Bowl-1962.mp3 Are you on Facebook? Send a friend request to Luke Sacher and I'll bring you into our Swing, Saloon and Croon group... :)
How is she underrated? She and Louis regularly played with Sinatra and did Vegas for years, had cut many successful albums and were on radio and tv for years. Did you mean you'd never heard of her?
@@austntexan She isn't well remembered today, it seems. A lot of that Louis Prima schtick gets to be grating in a hurry. But her solo recordings are truly great. Father Time is a real SOB.
She sang so beautifully touched me I lost my his and this year after 52 years of marriage I miss him and this song brought me to tears this comment is from mrs john gray
I just found out Keely passed away on December 16. I consider it one of the honors of my life to have been able to see her perform twice in Palm Springs in the '00s. Only time in my life outside of weddings that I've rented a tuxedo. I'll never forget one line from her show about the men she had known in her life. She said something about talking to them and knowing exactly where to look to talk to Louis (looks down at the floor). Then, looking up, she says, "Isn't that right, Frank?" Even in her 80s the voice was exactly the same. Not bad for a little girl from Norfolk, VA. RIP, Keely.
I don't know how long she performed after I saw her last. Before I moved back to my hometown of Buffalo, New York after about 20 years in Las Vegas. I watched her perform at the Desert Inn Lounge and she was terrific. She was 69 or 70 and still had a great voice.
What a stupendous singing performance. She always has plenty in reserve. Thrilling high notes. Love the way she gives her notes full value, holds the note right to the end. Beginning singers usually wonder what to do w their face & hands, display too much strain & emotion in facial expressions. Learn from Keely here, the master of her craft. Face is calm, relaxed, sincere. Focus is on the emotion in the eyes & the words of the song. Hands are still. Others to watch: Peggy King, & Tony Bennett.
Knife Shark Among jazz aficionados she was very highly rated. in the late 50's, Ed Sullivan described Prima and Smith as the " greatest act in show business."
+Mike Hudson Thanks, boss! She's my absolute favorite lady vocalist ever... Louis and Keely practically invented rock n' roll while keeping alive the Great American Songbook, yes? :) Here's a link to her at the Hollywood Bowl just after her split with Louis... incredible... pastdaily.com/2013/12/01/keely-smith-concert-hollywood-bowl-1962-past-daily-pop-chronicles/ pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Keely-Smith-Hollywood-Bowl-1962.mp3
Hey thanks so much for the link. Never heard that before. I love it and I love to hear Keely speak. The wonders of You Tube. I don't like technology much but I am glad for this!!!
I've seen her in person twice. Terrific, but what a mouth! She graciously offered to sing requests from the audience. I asked her to sing "It's Been A Long, Long Time." She sang it and during the piano interlude I heard her say to the pianist (her son-in-law), "I really hate this song!"
Love Keely! Funny, great voice, and a naturally great performer. My uncle George was Louis and Keely’s cook for a year and George said that Keely around the house was the entertainer. Always singing and making ppl laugh. Sometimes while helping George, George would turn and look at Kelly, only to see her making the funniest face at him. George says no one enjoyed life more than Louis and Keely. Regardless of being celebrities
Such a great singer. Poised. Classy. Cool. Really, this lady DEFINES cool. I just ordered a dvd of HEY BOY! HEY GIRL! Louis Prima and Keely Smith's 1959 Columbia film. Not an award winning story, but the music is sublime!
Hello, Beth! Thanks for tuning in and leaving a comment- she's my favorite chanteuse of all time- even above Ella and Sarah and Doris and Dinah and... well, you get the point! If you're interested, here's an interview that we shot of her in November 1998 at her club in Rancho Mirage, Basin Street West, for our biography of the Rat Pack... th-cam.com/video/q5fHMAF7aUY/w-d-xo.html Warmest Regards, Luke Sacher Praeses & Soapbox Productions Inc. th-cam.com/users/soapbxprod
watching this reminds me of when keely passed away (she lived somewhat locally) her estate was selling off some her stuff on craigslist. i specifically remember she had the most beautiful vintage dresses. quality you just don't see today.
Thanks for tuning in and your kind comment- Isn't she the BEST? EVER? What a love... a friend of mine on Facebook found this for me... 1962 Hollywood Bowl with the Nelson Riddle orchestra... you will love it, I promise... pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Keely-Smith-Hollywood-Bowl-1962.mp3 Here is the website info to the concert: pastdaily.com/2013/12/01/keely-smith-concert-hollywood-bowl-1962-past-daily-pop-chronicles/ Best wishes, and Happy New Year, Luke Sacher Praeses & Soapbox Productions Inc.
Joao Aurelio My good friends and I admin a super Facebook group called Swing, Saloon and Croon- please feel free to join us- we have a couple of thousand members and they are all really great people, all over the globe! :)
Im English, I live in UK. Ive always loved this Lady's voice. Somehow sad i discovered most people in UK, never heard of Keely Smith. Anyway, Peace to all.
My Dad loved this woman --------he always said she was too underrated. -----------I agree.-------------This takes me back to my childhood. ----------------------------------WolfSky9, 72 y/o
So interesting seeing the comments below. I too am named after her. My dad absolutely loved her voice and took a shining fancy to her too. My mother being a fan too and pregnant with me at the time, said to my Dad that he could name their baby in waiting Keely, should it be a girl! That was 1967. Keely Brooke Thomas, how amazing that you met her and Mikey Trahant ….your boss couldn't have chosen a better person to look after her that day!!
Luke, wow pallie, you cover the waterfront! You have it all -- great clip of Miss Keely. I'm sure you know, but if not, Louie's daughter, Lena Prima lives in New Orleans -- just wrapped up her last show for the summer at The Monteleone in New Orleans, which I caught. I know Lena --great pipes and a great entertainer..has all of Louie's arrangements.
Salut, Paul! We never talked about Keely? I begged her to let me produce her bio after the Rat Pack, but he kept turning me down... dang shame... she's bar none my favorite female singer, even ahead of Ella or Sarah or Doris or Dinah or Judy! I've got a bunch of great Keely performances, with Perry Como, Andy Williams, and others- will send them to you as quicktime movies or on a dvd if you want!
MUSICAL MEMORIAL: Keely Smith, born as Dorothy Jacqueline Keely, died on this day, December 16, 2017, at the age of 89, in Palm Springs, California. The cause of death was heart failure. She was born on March 9, 1928, in Norfolk, Virginia. For more information, and more musical memorials, please visit this internet group: FACE BOOK/TONY JAMS MUSICAL MEMORIALS 1950'S AND BEYOND & FACE BOOK/FRIENDS WHO LIKE TONY JAMS MUSICAL MEMORIALS. MAY DOROTHY JACQUELINE KEELY, AKA KEELY SMITH, REST IN HARMONY.
I couldn't agree more! I am an unconditional Keely fan. Alas, singers with her caliber of talent aren't even recognized by the music industry anymore -- the business school wiz-kids who run the show today are only concerned with making a fast buck and a quick return on minimal investment.
Todays singers rely on over engineered recording techniques. Back when Keely sang this live, audio engineers saw their job to make the sound as transparent as possible. Todays sound engineers, due to the proliferation of technology, perform techniques to keep the singer on pitch, add echo, change the equalization, apply compression and as a result, the quality of the talent has dwindled. Todays singers know they need gimmicks to attract the "fans" Crazy hair, Laser beams, explosions, etc.
Hello Ken- yes, I do! Thank you for tuning in and commenting- we produced the 1996 A&E Biography of Jerry Lewis, and 1999 Biography of the Rat Pack, and were good friends with many of Frank's friends- still in contact with Jeannie and Deana Martin and Anthony Lewis, Shecky Greene, and others. We have an enormous archive- please take a look around our commercial youTube channel- you'll be glad you did! th-cam.com/users/soapbxprod BTW- Keely Smith, IMHO, is the greatest of the torch singers- Robert Mitchum thought so too- and she and Frank almost got married after her split with Louis...
Hey Soap, what's up? Long time no hear!...........................Strange to see Keely and Louis together in 1958. I think they were long divorced by this time, great band. I don't think Keely really ever lost her love of Louis Prima. Her voice sounded great into at least her seventies, when she did a Count Basie tribute album in 2002.
Hey Johnnyc drums, thanks for dropping in for comment... Louis and Keely divorced in '62 I think? I have her Basie album... "Keely Swings Basie Style with Strings". Did you know that she almost married Sinatra? she wrote in her unpublished autobiography that he introduced her to vibrators... true. :)
Keely Smith had an affair with Sinatra after her marriage to Louis Prima ended. He called her "Injun". I saw her perform in Florida during the 1990s where she sang and talked about Frank, her career and Prima (who was abusive to her).
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Nelson Riddle’s arrangement and Keely’s voice. Absolutely smashing.
aha..I was just wondering about that...its obvious when you realise...who else could it be!
I especially love Keely Smith 's rendition of "When day is done " on Sinatra's show. In it she allows us to get a glimpse of the emotional and sensual side of her, instead of the usual deadpan expression whenever she's with Louis Prima. Together with a perfect Nelson Riddle arrangement, irresistible.
So underrated. One day, she will be rediscovered and music will again be marvelous.
Kind of a shame; really a crime that she's so underrated. She has such a gorgeous sultry voice.
wonderful singer I discovered on TH-cam.
she has sooo much more than this and I agree that the world needs to actually "discover" her again at this point .. peace
Awe, this is who I was named after, I met her when I was 5.
+Keely Brooke Thomas Gasser! Thanks for tuning in and commenting! Keely is my absolute favorite lady singer EVER...! We begged her to let us produce her biography after making the Rat Pack Bio for A&E in 1998-9, but she turned us down... as she has with everyone else... :) Here's something you'll love, Keely at the Hollywood Bowl with Nelson Riddle just after her split with Louis in '62... her voice is like an ANGEL!
pastdaily.com/2013/12/01/keely-smith-concert-hollywood-bowl-1962-past-daily-pop-chronicles/
pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Keely-Smith-Hollywood-Bowl-1962.mp3
+Keely Brooke Thomas Lucky you! Had I had a daughter, I would have liked to have named her Keely Eileen. Such a sublime singer!
+Keely Brooke Thomas I was named after her as well!
+keely lombardi Wow! Miss Smith must be quite happy that her voice inspired the creation of so many daughters over the years, yes? :)
I often think that some of the later songs by June Christie sound like Keely Smith. I met June Christie once in the late 1950s when I as a teenager.
Her voice was really awesome, strong, smooth, perfect practically.
I once read that she modeled her style after Ella. Good choice!
"The Female Frank"... :)
Now at 75 y/o, I still love this woman ---she was too underrated.
I have seen Keely perform 3 times in my life. 1 of those times was when she was a guest at a wedding I was catering and she performed. I begged my boss to let me have her table!! He did, and I waited on her all night!! Even helped her carry the centerpiece from her table to her car!! I stll get goosebumps. Keely is my favorite!
Dear Mikey- ME TOO! The GREATEST... Frank almost married her! :)
I begged her to let me make her biography after making the 1999 A&E Biography of the Rat Pack, but she turned me down flat...
Thank so much for your kind words- it's swell to meet another Keely Smith fanatic!
Here's a link to a tremendous performance of hers- 1962 at the Hollywood Bowl with Nelson Riddle's (or possibly Billy May's) Orchestra... you're gonna love it...
pastdaily.com/2013/12/01/keely-smith-concert-hollywood-bowl-1962-past-daily-pop-chronicles/
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I love her sooo much. One of the best Singers of all time!!!!! My friend Kelly got to sing with her, it was amazing!!!! Thanks for the link!!!
Mikey Trahant
My pleasure, Mikey- a dear friend sent the link to me- we have a really great Facebook group called "Swing, Saloon and Croon"... if you're on Facebook, please drop in. The people there are very kind, and always find super stuff to listen to. Have you ever seen this biography of Louis Prima? :) Louis Prima - The Wildest Documentary
THank you sooo much!! I just dropped in and am soo excited!!!
Mikey Trahant
I just uploaded our 1998 interview with Keely, shot at her club in Palm Springs (Basin Street West)- hope that you enjoy it! VIVA KEELY!
Keely Smith Interview 16 February 1998 Part 1
Also... this will FREAK YOU OUT! Keely at the Hollywood Bowl, 1962... It's either Nelson Riddle's or Billy May's band behind her... she's at the top of her game!
pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Keely-Smith-Hollywood-Bowl-1962.mp3
Are you on Facebook? Send a friend request to Luke Sacher and I'll bring you into our Swing, Saloon and Croon group... :)
She is by far one of the most original, sexy singers of 1950s, bet she was lots of fun to have as a friend, jokes etc.
So happy I was named after someone so iconic 💛
Ditto
This woman could sing!!!!! Absolutely pure clear voice!!!!
Keely remained hiddened by the showmanship of Louie and the band. She was not only pretty but a great singer!
So great to have Keeley stand alone she was up there with the greats. A “Very Special” voice.
I love her voice. She is so underrated.
How is she underrated? She and Louis regularly played with Sinatra and did Vegas for years, had cut many successful albums and were on radio and tv for years. Did you mean you'd never heard of her?
@@austntexan She isn't well remembered today, it seems. A lot of that Louis Prima schtick gets to be grating in a hurry. But her solo recordings are truly great. Father Time is a real SOB.
You just have to love Keely Smith. She is absolutely wonderful. Always remember Keely!
She sang so beautifully touched me I lost my his and this year after 52 years of marriage I miss him and this song brought me to tears this comment is from mrs john gray
Keely Smith died on December 16, 2017 at age 89. Rest in Peace!
I didn't know. I loved her then and now.
Keely Smith was always proud to be Cherokee, even in a time when some folks stayed quiet about their origins. Awesome lady.
Love her voice. Severely underrated singer. Her performance of ‘It’s Been A Long, Long Time’ is the definitive version of that tune in my opinion.
I just found out Keely passed away on December 16. I consider it one of the honors of my life to have been able to see her perform twice in Palm Springs in the '00s. Only time in my life outside of weddings that I've rented a tuxedo. I'll never forget one line from her show about the men she had known in her life. She said something about talking to them and knowing exactly where to look to talk to Louis (looks down at the floor). Then, looking up, she says, "Isn't that right, Frank?" Even in her 80s the voice was exactly the same. Not bad for a little girl from Norfolk, VA. RIP, Keely.
RIP, dollface, and what a sweet voice. You will be missed.
just discovered Keely. Really enjoy her singing 😀
R.I.P. Keely. You were a beautiful and gracious lady. Your golden voice will be missed.
I don't know how long she performed after I saw her last. Before I moved back to my hometown of Buffalo, New York after about 20 years in Las Vegas. I watched her perform at the Desert Inn Lounge and she was terrific. She was 69 or 70 and still had a great voice.
Such a wonderful singer...a strong voice and yet she always kept it smooth.
What a stupendous singing performance. She always has plenty in reserve. Thrilling high notes. Love the way she gives her notes full value, holds the note right to the end. Beginning singers usually wonder what to do w their face & hands, display too much strain & emotion in facial expressions. Learn from Keely here, the master of her craft. Face is calm, relaxed, sincere. Focus is on the emotion in the eyes & the words of the song. Hands are still. Others to watch: Peggy King, & Tony Bennett.
a very underrated singer! and overlooked an amazing talent
Her best IMHO is with Louis live at the Sahara. Thanks for watching.
Knife Shark Among jazz aficionados she was very highly rated. in the late 50's, Ed Sullivan described Prima and Smith as the " greatest act in show business."
Thanks to Louis Prima she was held back, how unfortunately for all of us 👏
@@peterhoffman9553 Thanks to Louis she got a break at all, she owes it all to him big time.
Her voice was magic, totally seamless across her entire range. Who else do we know who could boast of that?
The Female Frank... would that be about it? YES! I love her so much it hurts.
Always loved Keely - fabulous talent
Whenshe recorded" When your love has gone' she had done it. Brilliant singer. I have a number of her albums and she has a permanent place in my heart
Beautiful lady, loved all her solo records back in the day, she sounds exactly the same singing live. Pure talent. Great post, thank you.
+Mike Hudson agreed!!!
+Mike Hudson Thanks, boss! She's my absolute favorite lady vocalist ever... Louis and Keely practically invented rock n' roll while keeping alive the Great American Songbook, yes? :) Here's a link to her at the Hollywood Bowl just after her split with Louis... incredible...
pastdaily.com/2013/12/01/keely-smith-concert-hollywood-bowl-1962-past-daily-pop-chronicles/
pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Keely-Smith-Hollywood-Bowl-1962.mp3
Hey thanks so much for the link. Never heard that before. I love it and I love to hear Keely speak. The wonders of You Tube. I don't like technology much but I am glad for this!!!
+Mike Hudson Well, thanks right back for watching, we do appreciate it. :)
Discovered her when she was in Thunder Road with Robert Mitchum.Great voice.
I've seen her in person twice. Terrific, but what a mouth! She graciously offered to sing requests from the audience. I asked her to sing "It's Been A Long, Long Time." She sang it and during the piano interlude I heard her say to the pianist (her son-in-law), "I really hate this song!"
Love Keely! Funny, great voice, and a naturally great performer. My uncle George was Louis and Keely’s cook for a year and George said that Keely around the house was the entertainer. Always singing and making ppl laugh. Sometimes while helping George, George would turn and look at Kelly, only to see her making the funniest face at him. George says no one enjoyed life more than Louis and Keely. Regardless of being celebrities
Thanks for the post. This is one of the best one with Keely.
The talent, the class. So blindingly brilliant when juxtaposed against today's entertainment
BANG SPOT ON, Valeria... Keely was/is my favorite songstress EVER...
Keely is one of my favorite vocalist!
Such a great singer. Poised. Classy. Cool. Really, this lady DEFINES cool. I just ordered a dvd of HEY BOY! HEY GIRL! Louis Prima and Keely Smith's 1959 Columbia film. Not an award winning story, but the music is sublime!
Keely - so many memories from the Dessert Inn. You are angelic - thank you for sharing your Passion & your time... Beth Bono
Hello, Beth! Thanks for tuning in and leaving a comment- she's my favorite chanteuse of all time- even above Ella and Sarah and Doris and Dinah and... well, you get the point!
If you're interested, here's an interview that we shot of her in November 1998 at her club in Rancho Mirage, Basin Street West, for our biography of the Rat Pack...
th-cam.com/video/q5fHMAF7aUY/w-d-xo.html
Warmest Regards,
Luke Sacher
Praeses & Soapbox Productions Inc.
th-cam.com/users/soapbxprod
watching this reminds me of when keely passed away (she lived somewhat locally) her estate was selling off some her stuff on craigslist. i specifically remember she had the most beautiful vintage dresses. quality you just don't see today.
One of the best jazz artists I’ve ever heard, beyond underrated
One of a kind VOICE..!!!
A ten. Gone forever. Her voice lives on!
What an amazing video / moment!!! RIP Keely Smith :(
Smooth iconic voice
One year before I was born. I consider myself lucky to have been born into the post war 20th century cultural apex in so many ways.
This is simply perfect. I never heard her singing solo before, i'm astonished
Thanks for tuning in and your kind comment- Isn't she the BEST? EVER? What a love... a friend of mine on Facebook found this for me... 1962 Hollywood Bowl with the Nelson Riddle orchestra... you will love it, I promise...
pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Keely-Smith-Hollywood-Bowl-1962.mp3
Here is the website info to the concert:
pastdaily.com/2013/12/01/keely-smith-concert-hollywood-bowl-1962-past-daily-pop-chronicles/
Best wishes, and Happy New Year,
Luke Sacher
Praeses & Soapbox Productions Inc.
MR. i thank you from the bottom of my heart for this. Best wishes for you.
She really blows it for good, i'm still speechless
Joao Aurelio
My good friends and I admin a super Facebook group called Swing, Saloon and Croon- please feel free to join us- we have a couple of thousand members and they are all really great people, all over the globe! :)
i'm in, thanks very much. I just love the internet XD
Joao Aurelio
How did we ever live without it? :)
My oh my... THANK YOU SO MUCH for sending me here, Luke!!! I have no words... இڿڰۣڿڰ
Im English, I live in UK. Ive always loved this Lady's voice. Somehow sad i discovered most people in UK,
never heard of Keely Smith.
Anyway, Peace to all.
A great underestimated singer. Great jazz stuff and minor keys
Keely Smith was HAAAWT! What pipes!
My Dad loved this woman --------he always said she was too underrated. -----------I agree.-------------This takes me back to my childhood. ----------------------------------WolfSky9, 72 y/o
A supreme performer...Keely Smith still is in 2015!
+King Bee She's my absolute favorite lady singer of all time- thanks for tuning in!
we will see you in resurrection Keely... I love you my friend!
I love these guys!
R.I.P wonderful voice and a lovely person!!
Thank you, George- she's my favorite ever... even more than ella or doris or dinah or... or...
A beautiful voice.
Luke, thanks for this pallie. 1958...I was born.
Luke, Pallie -- that would be great -- many thanks. Look forward to receiving the QT movies.
Heckuva voice!!
She's my total favorite ever... thanks for tuning in!
I love her music
What a songbird! 👏
so sorry to have heard of this lovely lady of song.
Keely Smith (Mar. 9, 1928 - Dec. 16, 2017) RIP
Get em babe
Just gorgeous and oh what a voice
So interesting seeing the comments below. I too am named after her. My dad absolutely loved her voice and took a shining fancy to her too. My mother being a fan too and pregnant with me at the time, said to my Dad that he could name their baby in waiting Keely, should it be a girl! That was 1967. Keely Brooke Thomas, how amazing that you met her and Mikey Trahant ….your boss couldn't have chosen a better person to look after her that day!!
keely josephine
Love Keely! Saw her live a few years ago, and she sounded exactly like this, but slightly jazzier.
RIP Keely - the greatest.
Luke, wow pallie, you cover the waterfront! You have it all -- great clip of Miss Keely. I'm sure you know, but if not, Louie's daughter, Lena Prima lives in New Orleans -- just wrapped up her last show for the summer at The Monteleone in New Orleans, which I caught. I know Lena --great pipes and a great entertainer..has all of Louie's arrangements.
Why wasn’t she better known? She has one of the best voices I ever heard.
Really talented and gifted. I'm going to look for her albums. She was under her husband's thumb it looks
I'm in love all over again!!
That’s talent!
Salut, Paul! We never talked about Keely? I begged her to let me produce her bio after the Rat Pack, but he kept turning me down... dang shame... she's bar none my favorite female singer, even ahead of Ella or Sarah or Doris or Dinah or Judy! I've got a bunch of great Keely performances, with Perry Como, Andy Williams, and others- will send them to you as quicktime movies or on a dvd if you want!
very good voice have a few of her albums with Nelson Riddle orchestra
Her best IMHO is with Louis live at the Sahara. Thanks for watching.
MUSICAL MEMORIAL: Keely Smith, born as Dorothy Jacqueline Keely, died on this day, December 16, 2017, at the age of 89, in Palm Springs, California. The cause of death was heart failure. She was born on March 9, 1928, in Norfolk, Virginia. For more information, and more musical memorials, please visit this internet group: FACE BOOK/TONY JAMS MUSICAL MEMORIALS 1950'S AND BEYOND & FACE BOOK/FRIENDS WHO LIKE TONY JAMS MUSICAL MEMORIALS. MAY DOROTHY JACQUELINE KEELY, AKA KEELY SMITH, REST IN HARMONY.
wnnnn, toda hermosa ella 😭😭😭
Luke, that is a shame that you didn't get to do her bio. I love her too..and would love to have those QT movies -- thanks Pallie.
The shade with the three
Hi Paul- I'm gonna start with the Keely Smith stuff!
nothing to say but...DAMN!
I couldn't agree more! I am an unconditional Keely fan. Alas, singers with her caliber of talent aren't even recognized by the music industry anymore -- the business school wiz-kids who run the show today are only concerned with making a fast buck and a quick return on minimal investment.
RIP Keely...............
RIP Keely.
Dear Paul- will start sending the QT movies tonight- they take about 3 hours for each hour of video. :)
Todays singers rely on over engineered recording techniques. Back when Keely sang this live, audio engineers saw their job to make the sound as transparent as possible. Todays sound engineers, due to the proliferation of technology, perform techniques to keep the singer on pitch, add echo, change the equalization, apply compression and as a result, the quality of the talent has dwindled. Todays singers know they need gimmicks to attract the "fans" Crazy hair, Laser beams, explosions, etc.
RIP lady..
Great!
Windmills.
RIP Keely 17/12/2017
Do you have the complete show? I have the audio tape of it and its all Great!!!
Hello Ken- yes, I do! Thank you for tuning in and commenting- we produced the 1996 A&E Biography of Jerry Lewis, and 1999 Biography of the Rat Pack, and were good friends with many of Frank's friends- still in contact with Jeannie and Deana Martin and Anthony Lewis, Shecky Greene, and others. We have an enormous archive- please take a look around our commercial youTube channel- you'll be glad you did!
th-cam.com/users/soapbxprod
BTW- Keely Smith, IMHO, is the greatest of the torch singers- Robert Mitchum thought so too- and she and Frank almost got married after her split with Louis...
RIP Keely…
Hey Soap, what's up? Long time no hear!...........................Strange to see Keely and Louis together in 1958. I think they were long divorced by this time, great band. I don't think Keely really ever lost her love of Louis Prima. Her voice sounded great into at least her seventies, when she did a Count Basie tribute album in 2002.
Hey Johnnyc drums, thanks for dropping in for comment... Louis and Keely divorced in '62 I think? I have her Basie album... "Keely Swings Basie Style with Strings". Did you know that she almost married Sinatra? she wrote in her unpublished autobiography that he introduced her to vibrators... true. :)
Thanks, I'm not surprised you had the inside story.
No. It wasn't until the mid 1960's that they divorced.
Keely had a lovely voice and rhere was sonething special about her , besides being a sexy woman !!!!
Keely Smith had an affair with Sinatra after her marriage to Louis Prima ended. He called her "Injun". I saw her perform in Florida during the 1990s where she sang and talked about Frank, her career and Prima (who was abusive to her).
I imagine there were not a lot (known) Métis on American television back then.
R.I.P
Gorgeous voice. Beautiful song. Now who picked out that dress? It looks like a large lamp shade.
My, she's good, classy.
I rank her along with Edie Gourmet as two superlative singers ... Keely with Louis Prima and Edie with Steve Lawrence
I always liked how Keely never had her hair tightly permed as most prominent women did during this era.
So adorable, huh? That beautiful Creek hair... perfectly full of body and straight at the same time...
Great arrangement - TV producers don't have the skill or the confidence to do these kind of shows today - nor do the recordists.