Huey "Piano" Smith

... uh, we're gonna ...

Yep, we're gonna hear tonight the 1957 song, which was, uh, originally recorded by Huey Smith, and, um, it reached ...

It was a minor hit, I should say, for him.

It peaked around number 52 on the Top 100 chart, and then it hit number five on the most-played R&B chart.

Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of old...

I mean, there's so much New Orleans R&B stuff that's... that is at the forefront of rock and roll and, and was just like, it's just, and it's still in like during Mardi Gras, you'll hear, you know, you'll hear, um, Huey Smith and the clowns or, um, I don't know, like the Hawkettes, the Mardi Gras Mambo, you know?

Yeah.

Um, Stuff that was recorded.

I don't know how I got exposed to things like this.

But, you know, like Huey Piano Smith, Rockin' Pneumonia.

But I didn't know that they were New Orleans acts until I got to New Orleans and sort of realized what was homegrown and what was just sort of things that had broken out nationally.

Really? Okay.