DIE US-AMERIKANISCHE JAZZ- UND POPSÄNGERIN KEELY SMITH IST GESTORBEN

Die am 9. März 1928 in Norfolk (Virginia) geborene US-amerikanische Jazz- und Pop-Sängerin Keely Smith, bekannt vor allem durch ihre Zusammenarbeit mit Louis Prima und Frank Sinatra, ist am 16. Dezember 2017 in Palm Springs (Kalifornien) gestorben.

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Keely Smith, Jazz and Pop Singer, Dies at 89

Her hits included «Bei Mir Bist Du Schön» and «I’ve Got You Under My Skin.» «That Old Black Magic,» which she reprised with Kid Rock at the 2008 Grammy awards, made a big impression on pop culture: Kermit the frog, wearing a wig, performed as Smith on the early Muppets show «Sam and Friends,» singing «That Old Black Magic.» Keely Smith and Louis Prima also performed the hit at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration.

Pat Saperstein

http://variety.com/2017/music/news/keely-smith-dead-dies-louis-prima-1202643232/

Keely Smith and Louis Prima won a Grammy in 1959 – the first year the awards were handed out – for best pop vocal performance by a duo or group for their hit «That Old Black Magic,» which remained on the charts for 18 weeks.

In 2001 – 42 years later – Smith was nominated for a Grammy for her album «Keely Sings Sinatra.»

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-keely-smith-20171218-story.html

Standing to one side, her impassive basilisk stare part of the act, the singer Keely Smith, who has died aged 89, excelled as the onstage foilto her extrovert husband, the trumpeter-vocalist Louis Prima. Where Prima was manic, cavorting around the stage, singing with gusto and playing hot jazz trumpet, Smith was the epitome of cool, her vocals like a balm amid all the mayhem.

Peter Vacher

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/dec/17/keely-smith-obituary

Sie sang mit Louis Prima und Frank Sinatra: Die US-Amerikanerin Keely Smith gehörte zu den großen Jazzsängerinnen der Fünfzigerjahre.

cbu

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/keely-smith-ist-tot-jazzsaengerin-starb-im-alter-von-89-jahren-a-1183863.html

Videos:

Louis Prima & Keely Smith – I’m In The Mood For Love 1957

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoP-CCnmY7U

Louis Prima & Keely Smith – Old black magic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzUXuBeXN44

Louis Prima & Keely Smith – Just a Gigolo & I Ain’t Go Nobody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-a8kLtJSJ4