Huey "Piano" Smith & His Clowns

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Free, single and disengaged 02:11 Tools
Don't You Just Know It 02:33 Tools
Free, Single & Disengaged 02:10 Tools
High Blood Pressure 02:49 Tools
Don't You Know Yockomo 02:28 Tools
Beatnik Blues 02:22 Tools
Just A Lonely Clown 02:14 Tools
We Like Birdland 02:32 Tools
Everybody's Whalin' 02:42 Tools
For Cryin' Out Loud 02:32 Tools
Little Liza Jane 02:09 Tools
Would You Believe It (I Have A Cold) 02:21 Tools
Well I'll Be John Brown 02:30 Tools
Havin' A Good Time 02:36 Tools
Dearest Darling 02:34 Tools
Genevieve 02:32 Tools
Tu-Ber-Cu-Lucas And The Sinus Blues 02:31 Tools
Pop-Eye 02:55 Tools
Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu 02:18 Tools
She Got Low Down 02:37 Tools
Alimony 02:11 Tools
Don't You Just Know It? 02:34 Tools
Free, Single, And Disengaged 02:11 Tools
Having A Good Time 02:32 Tools
Scald-Dog 02:37 Tools
Little Chickee Wha Wha 02:10 Tools
Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu (Part 1) 02:18 Tools
I Think You're Jiving Me 02:34 Tools
Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu 02:21 Tools
Hush Your Mouth 02:40 Tools
Mean Mean Man 02:37 Tools
Little Chickie Wah Wah 02:08 Tools
Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu (Part 2) 02:23 Tools
If It Ain'T One Thing, It'S Another 02:29 Tools
Little Chickee Wah Wah 02:10 Tools
Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu, Pt. 1 02:18 Tools
Free Single and Disengaged 02:10 Tools
Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Blues 02:17 Tools
Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu, Pt. 2 02:23 Tools
Don't You Know Yokamo 02:27 Tools
Sea Cruise 02:41 Tools
Somebody Told It 02:34 Tools
Sassy Sara 02:11 Tools
Little Chikee Wah Wah 02:09 Tools
They Kept On 00:30 Tools
Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu 02:30 Tools
Able Mabel 02:16 Tools
Psycho 02:16 Tools
I Didn't Do It 02:01 Tools
Loberta 00:30 Tools
Popeye 00:30 Tools
Through Foolin' Around 2 00:30 Tools
More Girls 00:30 Tools
Through Foolin' Around 00:30 Tools
At The Mardi Gras 02:30 Tools
Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu Pts.1&Pts.2 02:30 Tools
Happy New Year 02:30 Tools
Why Did I Do 00:30 Tools
I Don't Play Like That 00:30 Tools
Snag A Tooth Jeanie 00:30 Tools
Alimony Blues 00:30 Tools
Trough Foolin'around II 00:30 Tools
Don't I Just Know It 00:30 Tools
I Think You Jiving Me 02:30 Tools
Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Tu-Ber-Cu-Lucas And Sinus Blues 02:32 Tools
The Hill Ain't far 02:32 Tools
Chicka Wah 02:32 Tools
Doin' the Beatnik Twist 02:18 Tools
The Little Moron 02:18 Tools
Lil Liza Jane 00:00 Tools
Hear My Plea 00:00 Tools
Free Single And Disengaded 02:13 Tools
Behind The Wheel I 00:00 Tools
Scald Dog 00:00 Tools
Tuberculosis & Sinus Blues 00:00 Tools
We Like Mambo 00:00 Tools
Somewhere 00:00 Tools
Rockin' Behind The Iron Curtain 00:00 Tools
Huey Piano Smith & His Clowns / Free, Single And Disengaged 00:00 Tools
Blow Everybody Blow 00:00 Tools
Well, I'll Be John Brown 00:00 Tools
Walking Down The Street 00:00 Tools
You Can't Stop Her 00:00 Tools
Behind The Wheel II 00:00 Tools
High Blood Pressue 02:43 Tools
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Huey "Piano" Smith (born 26 January 1934 in New Orleans) is an American rhythm and blues pianist whose sound was influential in rock 'n' roll. Huey's influence on New Orleans music in the mid 1950s was profound, and it was often said Huey Piano Smith’s band was like a finishing school for Nola singers and musicians. Smith wrote his first song on the piano, "Roberson Street Boogie" (named after the street where he lived), when he was only eight years old, and performed the tune with a friend. They billed themselves as Slick and Dark. Smith attended McDowell High and Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans.[1] When Huey was fifteen he began working in clubs and recording records with his flamboyant partner, Eddie Jones, who rose to fame as Guitar Slim. When he was eighteen, in 1952, he signed a recording contract with Savoy Records, which released his first known single, "You Made Me Cry". In 1955, Smith turned 21, and became the piano player with Little Richard’s first band for Specialty Records. The same year he also played piano on several studio sessions for other artists such as Lloyd Price. Two of the sessions resulted in hits for Earl King ("Those Lonely Lonely Nights"), and Smiley Lewis ("I Hear You Knocking"). In 1957, Smith formed "Huey 'Piano' Smith and the Clowns" with blues singer and female impersonator Bobby Marchan, and signed a long term contract with former Specialty record producer, Johnny Vincent at Ace Records. They hit the Billboard charts with several singles in succession, including a breakout Top Five R&B hit entitled "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu". The song was originally an instrumental, and then Huey decided to do the same song on the flip side, but this time with lyrics.[1] In 1958, Vin Records, a subsidiary of Ace Records, released a popular single "Little Chickie Wah Wah" with Clowns singer Gerri Hall, under the billing of Huey and Dewey. Meanwhile, Ace Records released several more singles from "Huey 'Piano' Smith and the Clowns", including "We Like Birdland", "Well I'll Be John Brown", and "Don't You Know Yockomo". Their most famous single, released the same year, "Don’t You Just Know It" b/w "High Blood Pressure" hit number 9 on the Billboard Pop chart and number 4 on the Rhythm and Blues chart. In 1959, Ace Records erased Marchan's voice from the now classic single Smith composed, arranged and performed entitled "Sea Cruise", and replaced it with a more energetic vocal track by white singer Frankie Ford. The tune was a huge hit for Ford. Smith left Ace Records for Imperial Records, to record with Fats Domino's noted producer (and fellow Louisianan) Dave Bartholomew, but the national hits did not follow. Instead, Ace Records again overdubbed new vocals by Gerri Hall, Billy Roosevelt and Johnny Williams on another one of Smith’s unreleased tracks, to produce the last hit single credited to Huey "Piano" Smith, entitled "Pop-Eye". Thereafter, Smith joined the Jehovah’s Witnesses. In the years following, he made several comebacks, performing as "Huey 'Piano' Smith and the Clowns", "The Hueys", "The Pitter Pats", and as "Shindig Smith and the Soul Shakers", but he has never attained his former degree of success. In 2000, Huey "Piano" Smith was honored with a Pioneer Award by the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. In 2001, Smith's work appeared on the soundtrack of the hit film Snatch. with the song, "Don't You Just Know It." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_%22Piano%22_Smith Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.