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Bobby Milano. . . m. Dorothy Jacqueline Keely (March 9, 1928 [ 1 ][ note 1 ][ 2 ] – December 16, 2017), professionally known as Keely Smith, was an American jazz and popular music singer, who performed and recorded extensively in the 1950s with then-husband Louis Prima, and throughout the 1960s as a solo artist. [ 3 ]
Dec 22, 2017 · Keely Smith's New York Times obituary credited them with having foreshadowed the style of Sonny & Cher in the 1960s. Keely Smith was born in Virginia in 1928. By age 11, she was singing on a local ...
Dec 18, 2017 · You look at Louis Prima and Keely Smith, and there's a direct connection to Sonny and Cher. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "EMBRACEABLE YOU") PRIMA: (Singing) Don't be a naughty baby.
Dec 18, 2017 · Keely Smith, a smoky-voiced ... That Old Black Magic" and foreshadowed the popularity of Sonny and Cher, ... from the stage that the group needed a new female singer. Word reached Ms. Smith, who ...
Dec 18, 2017 · By Richard Sandomir. Dec. 18, 2017. Keely Smith, a smoky-voiced singer with a pageboy bob who emerged in the early 1950s as the deadpan half of a Grammy Award-winning lounge act with Louis Prima ...
Dec 17, 2017 · Cher was said to have “borrowed” Smith’s deadpan act when she was a young singing partner of the late Sonny Bono. Pat Rizzo, who first saw Louis and Keely in Las Vegas and then became Smith ...
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Dec 23, 2017 · For the New York Times, “ Keely Smith’s coolness amid Louis Prima’s chaos cemented them as one of Las Vegas’s premier attractions and foreshadowed the style of Sonny and Cher in the 1960s.”
