Joan Osborne

"One Of Us" is used as the theme song to the CBS television series Joan of Arcadia. And Butera and the Witnesses also continue to tour. She and her band accompanied the Dixie Chicks for a national tour in the summer of 2003, during which time she also joined veteran San Francisco jam-rockers The Dead (see Grateful Dead) as a vocalist, and released her third album, titled How Sweet It Is, a collection of classic rock and soul covers. 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". Osborne was featured in the 2002 film Standing in the Shadows of Motown and toured with legendary Motown sidemen The Funk Brothers. He is interred in the Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans. Her second studio album was Righteous Love, which was a long-delayed commercial failure; it fell off the charts quickly. He never recovered, and died three years later.

Doing so placed her in the same school of female singer-songwriters as Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan. In 1975 he went into a coma following surgery to remove a brain tumor. Teresa" were minor hits following the success of "One of Us", and Osborne's audience grew significantly with her appearance at Lilith Fair. Prima performed shows in Las Vegas throughout the 1950s and '60s, before returning to New Orleans in the early 1970s. "Right Hand Man" and "St. "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 song was much more pop-oriented than the rest of the album, which was steeped in country, blues and folk music. In 1967, Prima made a memorable contribution to the Walt Disney film The Jungle Book, as the voice of the raucous orangutan King Louie.

Her first album was Relish, which became a hit due to the single "One of Us". (Smith was of Cherokee descent; Cher was Armenian.) Prima, Smith, and Butera put on a live show that rocked as hard as anyone's. After moving to New York City in the early 1990s, Osborne formed her own record label, Womanly Hips, to release a few independent recordings before signing to Mercury Records. 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. Joan Osborne (born July 8, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter originally from Anchorage, Kentucky (now part of Louisville). 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. He appeared in several Hollywood movies, including a featured performance with Bing Crosby in the 1936 film Rhythm on the Range.

He moved to Los Angeles to headline at the Famous Door nightclub. 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. He moved to New York in 1934, working regularly on 52nd Street. 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.

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. 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. His older brother Leon Prima was a well regarded local bandleader. He studied violin for several years as a child.

Prima was born into a musical family of Sicilian descent in New Orleans. 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. Louis Prima (December 7, 1910- August 24, 1978) was an American entertainer, singer, actor, and trumpeter born New Orleans.