Another chance, as they say, to hear (the late) Humphrey Lyttleton’s appraisal of Louis Prima on BBC Radio 4. As Humphrey says, most people knew Prima only as the voice of King Louie in The Jungle Book, but there was much more to him than that one song. Prima and his band were musical pioneers across several musical genres from big band to rock ‘n’ roll.
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Here’s a clip introducing the programme that you can hear for seven days after broadcast.
Until the BBC repeat it again of course!
I last blogged about this same broadcast in May 2006
Link to the Louis Prima website. (Music starts when site is accessed, just press one of the links to the left.)
