Sam Butera
Sam Butera was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States on August 17th, 1927 and is the Saxophonist. At the age of 81, Sam Butera biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Sam Butera (August 17, 1927 – June 3, 2009) was an American tenor saxophonist best known for his collaborations with Louis Prima and Keely Smith.
Butera is often regarded as a crossover artist whose appearances in both R&B and the post-big band pop style of jazz that pervaded the early Vegas nightclub scene.
Later career
Butera appeared in the Cinemax television series Viva Shaf Vegas (1986), which starred Paul Shaffer. Butera is asked to help Shaffer with his "spiritual crisis" in the show, which was written by Shaffer, Tom Leopold, and Harry Shearer. Butera asks a series of questions, the first of which is "Are you regular?"
Sam Butera appeared in a segment of Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1997). "Well, first a little music, a little jive talk," Butera's tips for the host, Space Ghost's evil twin brother Chad Ghostal, on getting "chicks, like a fox." You have to name her baby, sweetheart, darling, so you know all the names that go along with love." "Just a Gigolo" was on display in Chad, Zorak, and Moltar's household, and Butera began to tell how David Lee Roth stole the song from him. "I wrote the contract thirty-four years ago, the one that David Lee Roth stole from me." He came in one night to see me, and after the performance, he stepped up to me and said, 'Hey Sam!' "I'm David Lee Roth," he said, "Who are you?" and I replied, "I'm David Lee Roth.""'You know what' I tell him?
"Give me my money," he said, and he walked out right away and led me away." Authors, not arrangers, are paid royalties, and the two songs arranging the arrangement were old enough by the 1950s to have been popular. Butera's outrage against Roth was matched by his indignation against journalists, who called columnists to protest about studies he didn't approve of.Sam Butera appeared in a Joe Piscopo HBO special.
Butera appeared in the film The Rat Race (1960), starring Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis. He and Joe Bushkin, who fleeced Curtis out of his instruments, became a scam artist. Both the album and the CD were released by Dot as a soundtrack to The Rat Race.
At the age of 81, Butera died of pneumonia in Las Vegas, Nevada.