New Orleans rhythm and blues

Get out of my life, woman

woman[jazz music] Fans of New Orleans R&B sure know who Allen Toussaint is.

Other people don't, but they sure know a lot of his songs.

He had hits for many, many people covering his tunes.

That was Big Maybelle with her original version of Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On.

Big Maybelle never had a pop hit, but she did gain some action on the R&B charts, and she has several popular tracks on the northern soul dance scene in England.

And sadly, she died in 1972 at the age of 47.

So up next, we got a tricky one.

Twist all night.

Twist, twist.

Well, there you have it, the original version of the Twist by R&B legend Hank Ballard and the Midnighters.

Hopefully, Hank Ballard received some royalties from that one from Chubby Checker.

Chubby Checker was born October 3rd, 1941.

His stage name was suggested by Dick Clark as an homage to what New Orleans R&B legend?

Fats Domino.

Domino.Benjamin Orr died October 3rd, the year 2000.

We got a whole bunch of saxes on it.

And it's people who play, like, who regularly play old school New Orleans R&B.

Well, like, Jason played with Fats.

Jason used to play with Fats.

Yeah.

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.