Orgy (band)

The band's third album, Punk Statik Paranoia, was released in 2004 through D1. And Butera and the Witnesses also continue to tour. Gordon started his own independent record label D1 Music. The Prima-Butera arrangements and recordings continued to be copied by younger musicians, including David Lee Roth, who covered his medley of "Just a Gigolo"/"I Ain't Got Nobody" in the 1980s, and Brian Setzer, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and other nouveau swing bands of the 1990s, covering such Prima standards as "Jump and Jive and Wail". They had already severed ties with Elementree. He is interred in the Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans. After the release of Vapor Transmission, Orgy left Reprise Records. He never recovered, and died three years later.

Their second album, the science fiction-themed Vapor Transmission, came out in 2000, with "Fiction (Dreams in Digital)" and "Opticon" as singles. In 1975 he went into a coma following surgery to remove a brain tumor. Other tours with Love and Rockets and Sugar Ray followed. Prima performed shows in Las Vegas throughout the 1950s and '60s, before returning to New Orleans in the early 1970s. Orgy made their live debut on the Family Values Tour with Korn, Limp Bizkit, Ice Cube (ex-N.W.A.), Incubus, and Rammstein. They were featured on the live compilation album of the tour, released in 1999. "I Wanna Be Like You" was a hit song from the movie that led to the recording of two albums with Phil Harris: The Jungle Book and More Jungle Book, on Disneyland Records. The second single "Stitches" also gained extensive airplay. In 1967, Prima made a memorable contribution to the Walt Disney film The Jungle Book, as the voice of the raucous orangutan King Louie.

Gordon described the subject matter of the material as "...bullshit...lies and fairy tales." Their cover of the New Order song "Blue Monday" was a breakthrough hit. (Smith was of Cherokee descent; Cher was Armenian.) Prima, Smith, and Butera put on a live show that rocked as hard as anyone's. In 1998, their debut album, Candyass, was released. The act, Louis Prima and Keely Smith, was very much the model for Sonny and Cher, the exuberant Italian musician and the serious, unsmiling exotic female singer. They had yet to play a single live show. In the late 1940s he added young singer Keely Smith (who was to become Prima's 4th wife) and saxophonist/arranger Sam Butera to lead his band, called Sam Butera and the Witnesses. Within six months, they were signed to Korn's label Elementree Records. He appeared in several Hollywood movies, including a featured performance with Bing Crosby in the 1936 film Rhythm on the Range.

They claimed the name of the band was not a sexual reference but instead pointed to the "collage" of different styles in their music. He moved to Los Angeles to headline at the Famous Door nightclub. Derakh had previously gained some fame in the 80's metal band Rough Cutt and Hewitt was a former member of Electric Love Hogs. Gordon and Derakh were also experienced producers. His 1936 composition "Sing, Sing Sing" became one of the biggest hits and most covered standards of the swing era, famously being performed in Carnegie Hall by Benny Goodman with a featured performance by Gene Krupa on drums. club scene. He moved to New York in 1934, working regularly on 52nd Street. Bassist Paige Haley, guitarist Amir Derakh, and drummer Bobby Hewitt soon completed the lineup. All were veterans of the local L.A. In his youth in New Orleans Prima played trumpet with Irving Fazola, his brother's band, and the pit band of the Sanger Theater before forming his own group, Louis Prima's New Orleans Gang.

Orgy was formed in 1997 by vocalist Jay Gordon and guitarist Ryan Shuck. His singing and playing showed that he absorbed many of the same influences as his fellow Crescent City musician, Louis Armstrong, particularly in his hoarse voice and scat singing. Their music has been self-described as "electro-pop" or "death-pop.". Prima was proud of his heritage, and made a point of letting the audience know at every performance that he was Italian-American and from New Orleans. Orgy is a rock band from Los Angeles, California. His older brother Leon Prima was a well regarded local bandleader. D1 Music Network (http://www.d1musicnet.com/) (Gordon's record label). He studied violin for several years as a child.

Official Julien-K Site (http://www.julien-k.com/) (Derakh and Shuck side project). Prima was born into a musical family of Sicilian descent in New Orleans. Official Amir Derakh Site (http://amir-derakh.com/). Prima rode the musical trends of his time, starting with his seven-piece New Orleans style jazz band in the 1920s, then succesively leading a Swing combo in the 1930s, a Big Band in the 1940s, a hot Vegas lounge act in the 1950s, and a pop-Rock go-go band in the 1960s, in all cases projecting his exuberant personality. Official Orgy Site (http://www.punkstatikparanoia.com). Louis Prima (December 7, 1910- August 24, 1978) was an American entertainer, singer, actor, and trumpeter born New Orleans. Punk Statik Paranoia (2004).

Vapor Transmission (2000). Candyass (1998). Paige Haley - Bassist. Amir Derakh - Guitar Synthesist.

Ryan Shuck - Guitarist. Bobby Hewitt - Drummer. Jay Gordon - Vocalist.