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10. Nov. 2015 · Allen Toussaint performing in New Orleans. David Redfern/Redferns. When Allen Toussaint was 17 he subbed for Huey “Piano” Smith with Earl King’s band for a show in Prichard, Ala., and he...
Allen Toussaint. Photo by by Glade Bilby II. Great Performances mourns the death of musician, songwriter and producer Allen Toussaint (January 14, 1938 – November 10, 2015), a native of...
23. Okt. 2023 · “Southern Nights” is arguably one of Allen Toussaint’s most iconic songs. Released in 1977, this soulful track combines elements of country and R&B, showcasing Toussaint’s versatility as a songwriter and performer.
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- Irma Thomas – Ruler of My Heart
- The Rolling Stones – Fortune Teller
- Betty Harris – Mean Man
- Ernie K-Doe – Here Come The Girls
- The Meters – Look-Ka Py Py
- Dr John – Life
- Allen Toussaint – Southern Nights
Allen Toussaint was New Orleans music’s renaissance man – equally adept as writer, arranger, producer and performer, and a man who crossed styles with alacrity. For all that he could throw dozens of instruments into one funky mix, he was equally adept at creating magic from minimalism. In 1963, Toussaint wrote and produced Ruler of My Heart for Irm...
Fortune Teller is minor Toussaint, really. He wrote it, under the pseudonym Naomi Neville, for Benny Spellman in 1961, and on that recording the Toussaint trademarks are plain – the piano is pushed to the fore, the percussion uses maracas and what sound like castanets as well as drums, horns are used carefully. But it gained a second life as a stan...
Toussaint wrote so much for so many that not everything he did could possibly become a hit or a standard. Take this, a 1968 B-side from Betty Harris, who had a musical career based on obscure singles for Jubilee and Toussaint’s Sansu label – which then became collectors’ items and favourites on the Northern Soulcircuit in the UK – before retiring t...
Is Here Come the Girls the only track that manages to take military drumming and make it irresisitibly funky? Toussaint wrote and produced the track for Ernie K-Doe, a fellow New Orleansartist, in 1970 (nine years earlier, he had given Ernie his breakthrough hit, the US No 1 Mother-in-Law), creating something that seems so unlikely you can’t quite ...
The Meters had been Toussaint’s house band for Sansu, and struck out on their own in the late 1960s, with Toussaint as producer, though they continued to work as a backing band for scores of artists. The Meters’ contribution to the growth of funk was almost as significant as James Brown’s, though they never achieved the same fame. Partly, of course...
Given how intertwined their names have become, it seems astonishing that it wasn’t until his sixth album that Dr John employed Toussaint as producer. Less surprising, though, is that In the Right Place was his commercial breakthrough (imagine that now, to be given six albums to find your way). The opening Right Place, Wrong Time is the one everyone...
We couldn’t finish without including Toussaint as a recording artist. He made his first record, The Wild Sound of New Orleans – pretty thrilling rock’n’roll, but without a signature that was distincitively Toussaint – in 1958, then took 12 years to follow it up. Southern Nights was the fourth of his 1970s solo albums and one that might as well have...
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10. Nov. 2015 · "Lord, I'm so tired." "How long can this go on?" Irma Thomas, "It's Raining" Toussaint was a master of capturing solitude. Some of his most famous songs take place at night alone, when the mind...
Allen Richard Toussaint ( / ˈtuːsɑːnt /; January 14, 1938 – November 10, 2015) was an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer. He was an influential figure in New Orleans rhythm and blues from the 1950s to the end of the century, described as "one of popular music's great backroom figures." [1]
Allen Toussaint war ein US-amerikanischer Musiker und einer der einflussreichsten Plattenproduzenten der 1960er Jahre in New Orleans. Als Pianospieler mit eigenem Stil arrangierte, produzierte und komponierte er große Hits für US-amerikanische Interpreten.
