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Louis Prima & Keely Smith

Astute Italian music biz veteran playing the fool in an act with a drop-dead-gorgeous-but-otherwise-deadpan part-Cherokee & Irish youngster -- in other words, "Sonny & Cher" 15 years before Sonny & Cher! They were the toast of Vegas in its early days, and their lesson was obviously not lost on Sonny Bono!

Keely, who died in 2017 at the age of 89, had an impressive set of pipes as a vocalist right up to her retirement in 2011.
 
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