Time: 44:17
Size: 101.4 MB
Styles: R&B, Soul, New Orleans blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front
[3:07] 1. Allen Toussaint - Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky
[2:25] 2. Curly Moore - Get Low Down
[2:48] 3. Betty Harris - Can't Last Much Longer
[3:06] 4. Ernie K-Doe - Here Come The Girls
[3:07] 5. Allen Toussaint - Get Out Of My Life Woman
[2:33] 6. Art Neville - Bo Diddley
[2:55] 7. Warren Lee - Star Revue
[2:17] 8. John Williams & The Tick Tocks - Do Me Like You Do Me
[2:05] 9. Diamond Joe - Gossip Gossip
[2:56] 10. Willie & Allen - Baby Do Little
[1:58] 11. The Rubaiyats - Omar Khayyam
[3:08] 12. Allen Toussaint - Tequila
[2:21] 13. Betty Harris - I'm Gonna Git Ya
[3:47] 14. Aaron Neville - You Can Give But You Can't Take
[2:52] 15. Willie Harper - You See Me
[2:46] 16. Allen Toussaint - We The People
“In the pantheon of New Orleans music people, from Jelly Roll Morton to Mahalia Jackson to Fats — that’s the place where Allen Toussaint is in,” said Quint Davis, the longtime producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, where Mr. Toussaint played almost every year since the mid-1970s. Mr. Toussaint’s career began when he was a teenager in the ’50s and his jaunty piano playing caught the ear of Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino’s producer. It continued to the present, with a late-blooming love for performing live and collaborating with rock and pop musicians like Elvis Costello.
Mr. Toussaint had his greatest impact in the ’60s and ’70s, when, as both songwriter and producer, he worked on records, like Ernie K-Doe’s “Mother-in-Law,” Lee Dorsey’s “Working in the Coal Mine” and Jessie Hill’s “Ooh Poo Pah Doo,” that described everyday pleasures and nuisances with empathy, wit and a loose, funky swing. During the ’70s Mr. Toussaint’s studio, Sea-Saint, which he founded with the producer Marshall Sehorn, became renowned for recordings by the Meters, Dr. John and Labelle, and attracted international pop stars like Paul McCartney and Robert Palmer. Mr. Toussaint, then still a largely behind-the-scenes figure in music, also found his way to No. 1 on the pop charts in 1977 when Glen Campbell recorded a cover of his song “Southern Nights.”
Mr. Toussaint’s inspiration, he often said, was New Orleans itself, and over the years he became an unofficial musical ambassador for the city, where for decades he maintained a modest home in a middle-class neighborhood.
Mr. Toussaint had his greatest impact in the ’60s and ’70s, when, as both songwriter and producer, he worked on records, like Ernie K-Doe’s “Mother-in-Law,” Lee Dorsey’s “Working in the Coal Mine” and Jessie Hill’s “Ooh Poo Pah Doo,” that described everyday pleasures and nuisances with empathy, wit and a loose, funky swing. During the ’70s Mr. Toussaint’s studio, Sea-Saint, which he founded with the producer Marshall Sehorn, became renowned for recordings by the Meters, Dr. John and Labelle, and attracted international pop stars like Paul McCartney and Robert Palmer. Mr. Toussaint, then still a largely behind-the-scenes figure in music, also found his way to No. 1 on the pop charts in 1977 when Glen Campbell recorded a cover of his song “Southern Nights.”
Mr. Toussaint’s inspiration, he often said, was New Orleans itself, and over the years he became an unofficial musical ambassador for the city, where for decades he maintained a modest home in a middle-class neighborhood.
Allen Toussaint Saint Of New Orleans