Words & Music by: Side A – Huey Smith; Side B – Smith
Musicians: Huey "Piano" Smith (piano), Bobby Marchan (lead vocals), Alvin "Red" Tyler (baritone sax), Frank Fields (bass), Charles "Hungry" Williams (drums), The Clowns (backing vocals), others unknown
Recording sessions: Produced by Johnny Vincent at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, LA, May 1959
Highest chart positions: Didn't hit Top 100 in any national charts
Huey Smith played piano on many other artist's records, but scored only two hits for his own group. Those two were "Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" in 1957 (US R&B #5) and "Don't Ya Just Know It" in 1958 (US #9, US R&B #4).
In 1959 he wrote and recorded one of his biggest hit songs, "Sea Cruise", but the record label erased his vocals from the track and over-dubbed it with Frankie Ford's vocals. The song went US #14 and US R&B 11 and it was afterwards covered by artists/groups such as The Hondells, Ace Cannon, Johnny Rivers, Billy Crash Craddock and Dion.
List price: Very Good+ is $10, Near Mint is $20
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