Misty" written in 1954 by jazz pianist Erroll Garner with lyrics by Johnny Burke was recorded by Keely Smith for her Dot LP, Swing You Lovers in1961. I do not own the right to the song, audio, or images contained in this video. The sound recording is administered by IODA.

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Keely Smith obituary. American singer who, with her husband Louis Prima, was part of the most successful Las Vegas lounge act of the 1950s. Standing to one side, her impassive basilisk stare part of the act, the singer Keely Smith, who has died aged 89, excelled as the onstage foil to her extrovert husband, the trumpeter-vocalist Louis Prima. Where Prima was manic, cavorting around the stage, singing with gusto and playing hot jazz trumpet, Smith was the epitome of cool, her vocals like a balm amid all the mayhem. Prima and Smith were the most successful Las Vegas lounge act of the 1950s, playing season after season at the famed Sahara hotel with their supporting band, the Witnesses. Keely Smith and Louis Prima rehearsing in 1959. Photograph: Columbia Pictures/Getty Images. She had seen Prima perform when on a family holiday in Atlantic City in 1947. The following year, she heard that he was playing nearby Virginia Beach, and that he was looking for a new vocalist, and so she auditioned. Prima hired her on the spot, and in 1953 she also became his fourth wife.

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Listen free to Keely Smith – The Songs of Keely Smith, Vol. 2 (You'll Never Know, Autumn Leaves and more). 12 tracks (). Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last. Keely Smith (Dorothy Jacqueline Keely, Norfolk, Virginia, March 9, 1932 - December 16, 2017) was a Grammy Award-winning 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. Smith showed a natural aptitude for singing at a young age. At 14, she sang with a naval air station band led by Saxie Dowell. At 15, she got her first paying job with the Earl Bennett band. She saw Louis Prima perform in New York City in 1949. When he came through Norfolk, Virginia, she auditioned.

Dorothy Jacqueline Keely (March 9, 1928 – 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. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Smith was of Irish and Cherokee ancestry.

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Keely Shaye Smith is an American journalist, television host/correspondent, writer and environmental spokesperson. Smith is married to actor Pierce Brosnan. The couple have worked together in a number of environmental issues related to animals. From 1995 to 2000, they supported the Natural Resources Defense Council and International Fund for Animal Welfare to stop a planned salt factory from being built at Laguna San Ignacio. They also support long time friend Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots youth and humanitarian program and have.

Keely Smith was born March 9, 1928 in Norfolk, VA. After her parents divorced and her mother remarried Jesse Smith when she was nine years old, she changed her name to Keely Smith after she joined Louis Prima and his band. Her family had a tough time and her three brothers and her took in laundry to make ends meet. In 1947, she was on a vacation trip to New York City where the heat became oppressive. The family decided to go to Atlantic City, . Keely went to the Steel Pier where Louis Prima was appearing. In 1948, Prima appeared at the surf club in Virginia looking for a singer  . She currently lives in Nevada and makes appearances in the Las Vegas area. Prima died in a nursing home in New Orleans on August 24, 1978 after being in a coma for several years.