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I agree.2/15/66 From: A1 Freeman/ Sands Hotel/ Las Vegas, Nevada For release: upon receipt SANDS PRESENTS THE NEW SOUNDS OF LOUIS PRIMA IN MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT Las Vegas, Nevada (February 15).......Louis Prima, who has become one of the biggest attractions in show business today, will open at the Sands on Wednesday, March 2nd for a seven-week engagement to begin a million dollar contract, largest ever signed by any show business personality for this glittering resort town. The Sands will present the great new sounds of Louis Prima with Gia Maione, and Sam Butera and The Witnesses, in the Celebrity Theatre in three shows nightly, to kick off the unusual contract. Prima has been on the show business scene in America for 20 years, making the transition from decade to decade and still keeping abreast of the sounds and moods of each growing generation. He will present great new sounds in his repertoire of more than 500 show orchestrations, using the whole spectrum of instruments; trumpet, saxaphone, trombone, valve trombone, clarinet, bass, piano, and now adding the new sounds of an electric guitar and a swing organ. more -