Smith, who died Saturday, was discovered by bandleader Louis Prima as a teenager. She later married Prima, and the two became a popular Las Vegas lounge act. Originally broadcast in 2000. This is ...

Keely Smith, a smoky-voiced balladeer from Norfolk who became a nightclub sensation in the 1950s with her then-husband, the comically disruptive entertainer Louis Prima, and who gradually emerged from ...

When Americans lost their appetite for big band music, Louis Prima and Keely Smith moved to Las Vegas and helped perfect the lounge act. (Soundbite of song, "(Nothing's Too Good) For My Baby") Mr.

Keely Smith, a popular jazz vocalist and a fixture in the 1950s world of Las Vegas and a musical partner to her husband, Louis Prima, has died. She was 89. Conjure up an image of Prima's lounge act - ...

The granite crypt topped by the trumpet-playing angel stands on what was once a horseracing track, a fitting final resting place for the pony-loving Louis Prima. The inscription on his tomb in ...

BIANCULLI: Keely Smith and Louis Prima divorced in 1961. Prima died in 1978. But Keely Smith kept going and singing. In the year 2000, when she was 68, she released a collection of new recordings in a ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. Keely Smith, the singer who won a Grammy Award when paired with her bandleader husband ...