BUNK’S SAINTS Hank Cherry’s piece on Bunk Johnson in your June 2010 edition is quite interesting and to the best of my knowledge completely accurate, but it leaves out one important historical fact. It was Bunk’s recordings and regular playing of “When the Saints Go Marching In” that turned it into the musical icon that [...]
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Bobby Lonero: Did He or Didn’t He?
June 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
Days after our May issue hit the stands, we received an email from Gia Prima, Louis Prima’s widow. “Our Web site, LouisPrima.com has a page (“The Witnesses”) on the complete history of the Witnesses and all of its members, throughout the years,” she wrote. “You will notice that there is no Bobby Lonero! He never [...]
Pizza, Pizza!
April 24, 2010 – 10:37 pm
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Gia Prima, wife of the late Louis Prima, and she told me a story of how fellow Italians used to call her and say nothing but “pizza, pizza” when she picked up the phone. Mrs. Gia repeated this to me in a voice that sounded like an out-of-breath [...]
