Keely Smith

We just haven't decided who yet.

We did Louie Prima and Keely Smith a couple years ago, but we're going to switch it up this year, maybe go a little more lounge.

Also, just so everybody knows, outside of film and performance, my band, the Tijuana Bible Thumpers, will be recording a seven-song EP this weekend, all original songs.

The hope is we can get it out.

And he said, all right, smart aleck, show it to Ray Charles.

I went across the street from his office to a phone booth and called Keely Smith's brother who had Ray Charles' phone number.

I got an appointment the next morning at 10 o'clock and I walked in this office and I noticed that like this, the walls didn't go all the way up to the ceiling.

But they brought me in this room with a guy named Mike Akapoff, and we showed songs on discs in those days.

Folks like Billie Holiday, Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day.

Yeah, I mean, Nat King Cole, Keely Smith, and then, you know, a little bit in more modern times, Willie Nelson and, uh, Rod Stewart did it in his standards phase, which I think he's still in.

It was not a B side to Maggie May or Do You Think I'm Sexy? [laughs] I'm getting thirsty, Chris.

It's about time for our next pour.

Recorded in 1961, that song was written for the original Broadway musical version of Paint Your Wagon, written by Lerner and Lowe.

We're going to slink now low into a most beautiful recording of Lullaby of the Leaves from Keely Smith.

You can find this stellar cut off her 1958 Capitol album with Billy May and his orchestra.

It's entitled Positively.

soundtrack go who wants to go first I'll

jump in you know first and foremost you had me at Louis Prima as a plot twist as an artist the soundtrack just You know, I can't sing, say enough praises for for Louis Prima and his band and Keely Smith and Sam Butera, who all appear on this.

So that in and of itself.

But then to get some of the other music.