Just a Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody

Louis Prima · 1956 · Medley de l'album The Wildest!

Context

"Just a Gigolo" is Irving Caesar's English adaptation (1929) of a Viennese tango by Leonello Casucci. Louis Prima links it with "I Ain't Got Nobody" as early as a 1945 V-Disc, and Sam Butera then rearranged the medley for Las Vegas. The definitive version, cut on April 23, 1956 at the Capitol studios with backing vocals by Keely Smith, opens The Wildest! and revived Prima's career; David Lee Roth covered it in 1985.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Swing, big bands, Jump blues, R&B. Among the origins and influences of Swing, big bands: Chicago, Stride (Harlem piano), Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington, Kansas City, Boogie-woogie, Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras.

By the same artist

• Jump, Jive an' Wail (1956)
• Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) (1936)

Sources

• EN: Just a Gigolo (song)

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