Track Listing

1. Lipstick Traces - Benny Spellman
2. Fortune Teller - Benny Spellman
3. Wrong Number - Aaron Neville
4. Waiting At The Station - Aaron Neville
5. Certain Girl - Ernie K-Doe
6. T'Ain't It The Truth - Ernie K-Doe
7. Ruler Of My Heart - Irma Thomas
8. It's Raining - Irma Thomas
9. Ohh Poo Pah Doo - Jesse Hill
10. Scoop Scoobie Doobie - Jesse Hill
11. All These Things - Art Neville
12. In The Night - Chuck Carbo
13. Beverley - Eldridge Holmes
14. WILLIE HARPER - Here Comes The Hurt Again
15. CURLY MOORE - Get Low Down
16. WARREN LEE - Star Revue
17. ZILLA MAYES - All I want Is You
18. STOKES - Whipped Cream
19. SONNY FISHER - Oh Love This Is Sonny
20. WILLIE WEST - Fair Child
21. DIAMOND JOE - Gossip Gossip
22. JOHN WILLIAMS - Blues, Tears, Sorrow

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #156049 in Music
• Released on: 2000-08-21
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
• 22 Classic recordings Produced by the legendary New Orleans Soul man Allen Toussaint.

• Mr New Orleans! The man who in the 60's shaped the new 'Soul Sound' that was emerging from the Crescent City.

• Following his apprenticeship as a pianist with Shirley & Lee's touring band, Toussaint took on work in 1960 as producer/arranger/writer/composer for the Minit and Instant labels producing at aged 22, hits for Jesse Hill, Ernie K-Doe and Chris Kenner amongst others.

• His songwriting yielded further hits for Benny Spellman, Betty Harris, Lee Dorsey, Irma Thomas and many more.

• This album collects together 22 of the most representative sounds of Toussaint’s production & writing, which are taken from the vaults of the Instant and Alon labels. Recordings made during the early 60s that best show why, later in the 70's - people such as Paul McCartney, Labelle, John Mayall, Robert Palmer and more - all flocked to his studio seeking the Toussaint Touch!

• First overview of this very well known soul producer / writer / arranger and is a finely balanced compilation to present an enjoyable mix of known and rare tracks. • Compiled and essayed by Clive Richardson

Customer Reviews

essential new orleans
This lovingly compiled collection salutes the genius of Allen Toussaint, writer, producer, singer and all-round very important musical presence whose talent is written in the stones of New Orleans. Along with well-known Toussaint songs - Benny Spellman's "Fortune Teller" covered by the Stones, Plant and Krauss and many others, Irma Thomas' "Ruler Of My Heart" and Jesse Hill's "Oo Poo Pah Doo", all N'Awlins standars, this CD also gathers lesser known Toussaint treasures such as Sonny Fisher's magnificent "Oh Love This Is Sonny" and the driving soul train of Willie Harper's "Here Comes The Hurt Again". We get the original of Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream" and Zilla Mayes sings "All I Want Is You" in a lush arrangement of pianos horns and plangent guitars, all courtesy of the Toussaint touch - he writes and produces every song. The heart and soul of 1960's New Orleans pop, rhythm and blues and boogie, all this and Aaron Neville too !