HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA) – Keely Smith, a Las Vegas legend and one of Palm Springs' most popular singers in the era of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, died of heart failure over the weekend after a long ...

Back when Chez Paree was chic and the Empire Room at the Palmer House Hotel was in its regal cabaret splendor, the vocalist Keely Smith was once a regular visitor to Chicago. She came first as a ...

Of all the great American female singers, Keely Smith may be the most naturally gifted. The instrument, the technique, the sense of melodic line all invite the closest analysis and emulation—simply ...

Keely Smith, a smoky-voiced singer with a pageboy bob who emerged in the early 1950s as the deadpan half of a Grammy Award-winning lounge act with Louis Prima, the ebullient, frenzied bandleader who ...

Keely Smith, her sleek black hair and trademark black bangs in place, came to town last week, packing all sorts of sweet Chicago memories. ”I`m a sad-song singer, someone who sings torch songs,” says ...

Keely Smith, a pop and jazz singer known for her solo recordings of jazz standards as well as her musical partnership with Louis Prima, has died of apparent heart failure in Palm Springs. She was 89.