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20. Feb. 2023 · Huey "Piano” Smith, a beloved New Orleans session man who backed Little Richard, Lloyd Price and other early rock stars and with his own group made the party favorites "Don't You Just Know It ...
20. Feb. 2023 · Huey “Piano” Smith, a beloved New Orleans session man who backed Little Richard, Lloyd Price and other early rock stars has died. He was 89.
20. Feb. 2023 · NEW YORK (AP) — Huey “Piano” Smith, a beloved New Orleans session man who backed Little Richard, Lloyd Price and other early rock stars and with his own group made the party favorites ”Don ...
Recording for Specialty Records, he was the first piano player to accompany Little Richard and also played sessions with Lloyd Price and Earl King. In 1957, recording for Ace Records, he and Bobby Marchand formed "Huey 'Piano' Smith and The Clowns". They had million-sellers with "Rockin' Pneumonia and The Boogie Woogie Flu" (1957) and "Don't You Just Know It" (1958), both now considered rock ...
17. Feb. 2023 · Huey Smith had largely dropped out of the business by the early 1970s. He reunited different configurations of his several bands a couple of times in the late ’70s and early ’80s, for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, but those reunions led nowhere. As the reissue boom of the late 20th century kept his old recordings popular and lucrative, he tried to get his share and never did ...
Smith would go on to sit in on sessions for Little Richard, Lloyd Price, Earl King, Smiley Lewis, and Fats Domino, among others. He eventually teamed up with vocalist Bobby Marchan for several of his recordings, including his most famous, “Don't You Just Know It.”. Wouter Keesing’s Huey “Piano” Smith discography, c. 1990s.
13. Feb. 2023 · He made a name for himself as a sessions musician and contributed to recording of Little Richard and Lloyd Price, before forming his own group Huey 'Piano' Smith & the Clowns. With the Ace record label, they achieved a Top 10 placing on the American Billboard Charts with the single "Don't You Just Know It," which reached number 9 in the Spring of 1958. The group also backed up singer Frankie ...
