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Louis Prima

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Louis Leo Prima (December 7, 1910 – August 24, 1978) was an Italian American singer, actor, songwriter, bandleader, and trumpeter. [1]

101 relations: All Media Network, AllMusic, Bandleader, Benny Goodman, Big band, Billy Rose, Boogie-woogie, Brain tumor, Breaking It Up!, C'è la luna mezzo mare, Canal Street, New Orleans, Capitol Records, Casa Mañana, Chicago, Columbia Records, Cornet, Desert Inn, Dixieland, Dot Records, Eleanor Roosevelt, Entertainment, Frank Sinatra, French Quarter, Gabriel, Gia Maione, Great Depression, Guy Lombardo, Helen Morgan, Hey Boy! Hey Girl!, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Horse racing, Hudson River, Human voice, I Wan'na Be like You (The Monkey Song), Intracerebral hemorrhage, Intracoastal Waterway, Italian Americans, Italian folk music, Italians in New Orleans, Jackie Gleason, Jazz, Jesuit High School (New Orleans), John F. Kennedy, Jump blues, Just a Gigolo (song), Keely Smith, Kids See Ghosts, Kids See Ghosts (album), King Louie, Languages of Italy, ..., Las Vegas, Las Vegas Valley, Los Angeles Times, Lou Sino, Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima Jr., Lounge music, Majestic Records, Mardi Gras, Martha Raye, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, New York City, Norfolk, Virginia, Orangutan, Paramount Records, Pee Wee Russell, Phil Harris, RCA Records, Rhythm and blues, Rock and roll, Salaparuta, Sam Butera, Shim Sham, Sicily, Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing), Singing, SLS Las Vegas, South Bend, Indiana, Strand Theatre (Ithaca, New York), Swing (jazz performance style), Swing music, Tarantella, The Continental Twist, The Jungle Book (1967 film), The Jungle Book (soundtrack), The Man Called Flintstone, The Manuelo Tarantel, The Wildest!, Traditional pop music, Trumpet, University of Illinois Press, Ustica, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Records, Warner Bros., What's My Line?, William Morris Agency, Wisconsin, World War II. Expand index (51 more) »

All Media Network

All Media Network (formerly All Media Guide (AMG) and AllRovi) is an American company that owns and maintains AllMusic, AllMovie, AllGame (until its closure in 2014), SideReel and Celebified.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a rock or pop group or jazz quartet.

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Benny Goodman

Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".

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Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

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Billy Rose

Billy Rose (born William Samuel Rosenberg, September 6, 1899 – February 10, 1966) was an American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist.

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Boogie-woogie

Boogie-woogie is a musical genre that became popular during the late 1920s, but developed in African-American communities in the 1870s.

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Brain tumor

A brain tumor occurs when abnormal cells form within the brain.

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Breaking It Up!

Breaking It Up! is an album by Louis Prima, first released in 1958.

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C'è la luna mezzo mare

"Luna mezz'o mare" (Moon amid the sea) is a comic Neapolitan song with worldwide popularity, traditionally styled as a brisk 6/8 tarantella, based on an earlier version from Sicily.

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Canal Street, New Orleans

Canal Street is a major thoroughfare in the city of New Orleans.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Casa Mañana

Casa Mañana Theatre, in Fort Worth, Texas, US, is located in the Fort Worth Cultural District and is also known, in English, as the "House of Tomorrow".

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Cornet

The cornet is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality.

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Desert Inn

The Desert Inn, also known as the D.I., was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, which operated from April 24, 1950, to August 28, 2000.

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Dixieland

Dixieland, sometimes referred to as hot jazz or traditional jazz, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century.

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Dot Records

Dot Records is an American record label founded by Randy Wood that was active between 1950 and 1979.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat and activist.

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Entertainment

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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French Quarter

The French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré ("Old Square") or Vieux Carré Historic District, is the oldest section of the City of New Orleans.

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Gabriel

Gabriel (lit, lit, ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲓⲏⲗ, ܓܒܪܝܝܠ), in the Abrahamic religions, is an archangel who typically serves as God's messenger.

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Gia Maione

Gia Maione Prima (May 20, 1941 – September 23, 2013) was an American singer and wife of singer Louis Prima.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Guy Lombardo

Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo (June 19, 1902 – November 5, 1977) was a Canadian-American bandleader and violinist of Italian descent.

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Helen Morgan

Helen Morgan (August 2, 1900 – October 9, 1941) was an American singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage.

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Hey Boy! Hey Girl!

Hey Boy! Hey Girl! is a 1959 film directed by David Lowell Rich.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,600 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Hudson River

The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York in the United States.

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Human voice

The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, such as talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc.

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I Wan'na Be like You (The Monkey Song)

"I Wan'na Be like You" is a song from Walt Disney's 1967 film The Jungle Book.

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Intracerebral hemorrhage

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, is a type of intracranial bleed that occurs within the brain tissue or ventricles.

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Intracoastal Waterway

The Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) is a inland waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States, running from Boston, Massachusetts, southward along the Atlantic Seaboard and around the southern tip of Florida, then following the Gulf Coast to Brownsville, Texas.

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Italian Americans

Italian Americans (italoamericani or italo-americani) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans who have ancestry from Italy.

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Italian folk music

Italian folk music has a deep and complex history.

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Italians in New Orleans

Italians have had a presence in the area since the explorations of the Europeans, Many Sicilians immigrated to New Orleans in the 19th century, traveling on the Palermo-New Orleans route by ship.

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Jackie Gleason

John Herbert Gleason (February 26, 1916June 24, 1987) was an American comedian, actor, writer, composer and conductor.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jesuit High School (New Orleans)

Jesuit High School is an all-male, college-preparatory, Catholic high school in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

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Jump blues

Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, usually played by small groups and featuring saxophone or brass instruments.

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Just a Gigolo (song)

"Just a Gigolo" is a popular song, adapted by Irving Caesar in 1929 from the Austrian tango "Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo", composed in 1928 in Vienna by Leonello Casucci to lyrics written in 1924 by Julius Brammer.

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Keely Smith

Dorothy Jacqueline Keely (March 9, 1928The reference work The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet gives Smith's date of birth as March 9, 1932. – December 16, 2017), better 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.

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Kids See Ghosts

Kids See Ghosts (stylized as KIDS SEE GHOSTS) is an American hip hop supergroup-duo composed of musicians Kanye West and Kid Cudi.

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Kids See Ghosts (album)

Kids See Ghosts (stylized in all caps) is the eponymous debut studio album by American hip hop duo Kids See Ghosts, composed of Kanye West and Kid Cudi.

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King Louie

King Louie is a fictional character introduced in Walt Disney's 1967 animated musical film, The Jungle Book.

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Languages of Italy

There are approximately thirty-four living spoken languages and related dialects in Italy; most of which are indigenous evolutions of Vulgar Latin, and are therefore classified as Romance languages.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.

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Las Vegas Valley

The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Lou Sino

Lou Sino (August 16, 1930 – July 30, 1986) was a jazz trombone player and singer who a member of various well-known jazz bands plus known for his time playing with Louis Prima and Sam Butera.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Louis Prima Jr.

Louis Prima Jr. (born June 16, 1965 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is an American jazz singer and the son of Louis Prima.

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Lounge music

Lounge music is a type of easy listening music popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Majestic Records

Majestic Records was a mid-20th century record label based in New York City.

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Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, refers to events of the Carnival celebration, beginning on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three Kings Day) and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday (known as Shrove Tuesday).

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Martha Raye

Martha Raye (August 27, 1916 – October 19, 1994) was an American comic actress and singer who performed in movies, and later on television.

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Metairie Cemetery

Metairie Cemetery is a cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Orangutan

The orangutans (also spelled orang-utan, orangutang, or orang-utang) are three extant species of great apes native to Indonesia and Malaysia.

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Paramount Records

Paramount Records was an American record label known for its recordings of jazz and blues in the 1920s and early 1930s, including such artists as Ma Rainey and Blind Lemon Jefferson.

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Pee Wee Russell

Charles Ellsworth "Pee Wee" Russell (March 27, 1906 – February 15, 1969), was a jazz musician.

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Phil Harris

Wonga Philip Harris (June 24, 1904 – August 11, 1995) was an American comedian, actor, singer, and jazz musician.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Salaparuta

Salaparuta is a town and comune in South-Western Sicily, Italy, in the valley of the Belice river, administratively part of the province of Trapani.

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Sam Butera

Sam Butera (August 17, 1927 – June 3, 2009) was a tenor saxophonist best noted for his collaborations with Louis Prima and Keely Smith.

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Shim Sham

The Shim Sham Shimmy, Shim Sham or just Sham originally is a particular tap dance routine and is regarded as tap dance's national anthem.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia; Sicìlia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)

"Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" is a 1936 song, with music and lyrics by Louis Prima, who first recorded it with the New Orleans Gang.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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SLS Las Vegas

The SLS Hotel & Casino Las Vegas (formerly Sahara Hotel and Casino) is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada.

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South Bend, Indiana

South Bend is a city in and the county seat of St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States, on the St. Joseph River near its southernmost bend, from which it derives its name.

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Strand Theatre (Ithaca, New York)

Strand Theatre was a historic theater located at Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York.

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Swing (jazz performance style)

In music, the term swing has two main uses.

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Swing music

Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Tarantella

Tarantella is a group of various folk dances characterized by a fast upbeat tempo, usually in 8 time (sometimes or), accompanied by tambourines.

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The Continental Twist

The Continental Twist is a 1961 film.

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The Jungle Book (1967 film)

The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated musical comedy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions.

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The Jungle Book (soundtrack)

The Jungle Book, the soundtrack to the eponymous Disney film, has been released in three different versions since the film's release in 1967.

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The Man Called Flintstone

The Man Called Flintstone is a 1966 American animated comedy film produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and released by Columbia Pictures.

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The Manuelo Tarantel

The Manuelo Tarantel is an Italian-American song written by Carl Sigman and Peter de Rose, recorded in November 1949 by Louis Prima.

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The Wildest!

The Wildest! is an album by Louis Prima, first released in 1956.

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Traditional pop music

Traditional pop (also classic pop or pop standards) is music that was recorded or performed after the Big Band era and before the advent of rock music.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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University of Illinois Press

The University of Illinois Press (UIP) is a major American university press and is part of the University of Illinois system.

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Ustica

Ustica (Sicilian: Ùstica) is the name of a small island, about across, situated north of Capo Gallo, Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Virginia Beach, Virginia

Virginia Beach is an independent city located on the southeastern coast of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.

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Walt Disney Records

Walt Disney Records is an American record label of the Disney Music Group.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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What's My Line?

What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, with several international versions and subsequent U.S. revivals.

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William Morris Agency

The William Morris Agency (also known as WMA) was a Hollywood-based talent agency.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Prima

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