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Keely Smith (1929-2017)

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Marc Myers
Dec 18, 2017
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Keely Smith, a vocalist best known in the 1950s at Las Vegas nightclubs and on TV as the stone-faced half of a husband-and-wife comic duo in which she impatiently waited out and mocked the rubbery crooning style of mate Louis Prima before delivering a sincere rendition of her own, died on December 16. She was 89.


After the Smith-Prima divorce in 1961, fa…

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