Rest and Keely Smith – December 18, 2017
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Dec.18, 2017, under What's New?
After a juggernaut week and one still to come, I had to pull the plug and, pretty much, slept or rested all day Sunday. Haven’t done that since I was last sick.
Sometime yesterday I learned of the death of Keely Smith. I love her voice and am nuts about her three albums that she recorded just over ten years ago. I was trying to get folks to buy and support her albums all over the place. I remember promoting her albums to, my pal, Tom Stemmle and so many others. I thought we’d heard the last of “The Injun”, as Sinatra called her, years before the last albums. So glad she made those last ones and demonstrate the strength of her voice in her late 60s and 70s.
Here is a sample, with Francis Albert and her husband, at the time, Louis Prima:
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