The Wildest!

The Wildest!
Studio album by
Louis Prima
ReleasedOctober 1956[1]
August 13, 2002 (reissue)
Recorded
  • April 19 and April 20, 1956
  • September 13, 1956 (bonus tracks)
Studio
Genre
Length32:00[2]
LabelCapitol
ProducerVoyle Gilmore (1956)
Michael Cuscuna (2002)
Louis Prima chronology
Breaking It Up!
(1953) 		The Wildest!
(1956) 		The Call of the Wildest
(1957)

The Wildest! is an album by Louis Prima, first released in 1956. It features singer Keely Smith with saxophonist Sam Butera and the Witnesses. It is considered an innovative mixture of early rock and roll, jump blues and jazz as well as eccentric humor.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ "New 'Pops' Albums of World Music". The Shreveport Times. Shreveport, Louisiana. October 7, 1956. Retrieved December 5, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (2008). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Octopus Books, London. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-8440-3624-0.
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