New stage show honors Louis Prima

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A new show featuring the music and dance moves of New Orleans singer and trumpeter Louis Prima opens next month at the National World War II Museum.

Prima, who was born in 1910 and died in 1978, had a decades-long career spanning the genres of jazz, swing and big band with such hits as “Sing! Sing! Sing!,” ”Just A Gigolo,” ”Oh Marie,” ”That Old Black Magic” and “Basin Street Blues.”

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