Huey Piano Smith - Don't You Just Know It: Very Best of 1956-1962 [CD]
Don't You Just Know It: Very Best of 1956-1962
Huey Piano Smith
CD Rel Date: 1986-02-19
EU-only collection. Here is a tight and cohesive package featuring 28 classics of New Orleans R&B written and performed by the one and only Huey "Piano" Smith whose keyboard techniques are a huge influence over a generation of New Orleans piano players and musicians headed by stars like Dr. John. In a career that ran from the early '50s to the late '70s he recorded or wrote three undeniable rock and roll, rhythm and blues classics, "Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu", "High Blood Pressure" and "Don't You Just Know It" which all appear on this superb collection. If you're a fan of Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair or Dr. John then this is definitely for you!
Tracklist:
- Everybody's Whalin'
- Little Liza Jane
- Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu (Part 1)
- Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu (Part 2)
- Free Single and Disengaged
- Just a Lonely Clown
- High Blood Pressure
- Don't You Just Know It
- Havin' a Good Time 1
- We Like Birdland 1
- Well I'll Be John Brown 1
- Don't You Know Yockomo 1
- Little Chickee Wah Wah - Huey and Jerry 1
- I Think You're Jiving Me - Huey and Jerry 1
- Genevieve 1
- Would You Believe It (I Have a Cold) 1
- Tu-Ber-Cu-Lucas and the Sinus Blues 1
- Dearest Darling (You're the One) 1
- For Cryin' Out Loud 2
- Beatnik Blues 2
- I Didn't Do It 2
- They Kept on 2
- She Got Lowdown 2
- Mean, Mean, Man 2
- Pop-Eye - Huey Smith 2
- Scald Dog - Huey Smith 2
- Talk to Me Baby 2
- If It Ain't One Thing It's Another