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Paul Shaffer (L) and Allen Toussaint on the September 7, 2005 show of The Late Show with David Letterman
Paul Shaffer (L) and Allen Toussaint on the September 7, 2005 show of The Late Show with David Letterman

Allen Toussaint (born January 14, 1938) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM (born November 28, 1949 in Fort William, now Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian Events 1251 BC - A Solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes Greece. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Late Show with David Letterman is an Emmy Award -winning American late-night Talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS Events 1129 - Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing

One of the most influential figures in New Orleans R&B, many of Toussaint's songs have become familiar through their numerous cover versions, including "Working in the Coalmine", "Ride Your Pony", "Brickyard Blues", "Get Out My Life Woman", "Southern Nights" and "Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky". New Orleans (nʲuːˈɔrliənz nʲuːˈɔrlənz French: La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana "Working In The Coal Mine" is a song with music and lyrics by Allen Toussaint.

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Biography

Early life and career

Toussaint grew up in a shotgun house in the New Orleans neighborhood of Gert Town, where his mother welcomed and fed all manner of musicians as they practiced and recorded with Allen. The shotgun house is a narrow rectangular domestic residence usually no more than 12  feet (3 Gert Town (sometimes referred to as Zion City) is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. His friends often performed at a night club called "The Dew Drop", located on LaSalle street Uptown. This group of local musicians were known as the "Dew Drop Set". [1]

In his early years Toussaint worked mainly for Joe Banashak's "Minit" label, but after that label was sold to its distributor, he teamed up with Marshall Sehorn, starting their own record label variously known as Tou-Sea, Sansu, Deesu or Kansu. In 1973 Toussaint and Sehorn created the Sea-Saint recording studio in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans. Gentilly is a broad predominantly middle-class and racially diverse section of New Orleans Louisiana. New Orleans (nʲuːˈɔrliənz nʲuːˈɔrlənz French: La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana [2]

Success in the '60s & '70s

In the early 1960s he wrote and produced a string of hits for New Orleans R&B artists such as Ernie K-Doe, Irma Thomas, Art and Aaron Neville, The Showmen, and Lee Dorsey. Ernie K-Doe ( February 22, 1936 - July 5, 2001) was an African American Rhythm and blues Singer. Irma Thomas (b February 18, 1941, Ponchatoula Louisiana) is a Grammy Award winning soul and Rhythm and blues singer The Neville Brothers, an R&B, Soul and Jazz group was formed in 1976 in New Orleans LA. The Showmen were a New Orleans -based pop group formed in 1961. Lee Dorsey ( December 24 1924 – December 1 1986) was an Afro-American pop / R&B Singer during the Some of his songs from this period were published under the pseudonym Naomi Neville. "Ruler of My Heart", recorded by Irma Thomas, is one example; the song would go on to be recorded by Otis Redding under the title "Pain in My Heart". Irma Thomas (b February 18, 1941, Ponchatoula Louisiana) is a Grammy Award winning soul and Rhythm and blues singer Otis Ray Redding Jr ( September 9, 1941 December 10, 1967) was an American soul singer Another was Fortune Teller, covered by many 1960s rock groups including The Rolling Stones,The Who and The Hollies, and recently (2007) by Robert Plant on Raising Sand. "Fortune Teller" is a song written by Allen Toussaint under the Pseudonym Naomi Neville and first recorded by Benny Spellman (single The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964. The primary lineup consisted of guitarist Pete Townshend The Hollies are an English Rock and roll band formed in the early 1960s. Robert Anthony Plant (born 20 August 1948 West Bromwich, England) is an English rock singer and songwriter famous for his membership in the Raising Sand is a collaboration album by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.

Starting in the 1970s he switched gears to a funkier sound, writing and producing for The Meters, Dr John, and the Wild Tchoupitoulas Mardi Gras Indians tribe. The Meters were an American Funk band based in New Orleans Louisiana. Dr John (also Dr John Creaux) is the Stage name of Malcolm John Rebennack Jr The Wild Tchoupitoulas were originally a group of Mardi Gras Indians formed in the early 1970's by George Landry Mardi Gras Indians are mostly African-American Carnival revelers in New Orleans Louisiana who dress up for Mardi Gras in suits influenced by He also began to work with non-New Orleans artists such as Robert Palmer, Willy DeVille, Elkie Brooks, Solomon Burke, Scottish Soul singer Frankie Miller and southern rocker Mylon LeFevre. Robert Allen Palmer ( 19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) born in Batley, Yorkshire, was an English Willy DeVille (b August 25 1950 is an American Singer and Songwriter. Elkie Brooks (born Elaine Bookbinder 25 February 1945 in Broughton, Salford) is an English singer formerly a vocalist with Vinegar Joe, and later Solomon Burke (born March 21 1940) is an American Grammy Award -winning Singer / Songwriter. Frankie Miller (born Francis John Miller 2 November 1949) is a Scottish rock Singer-songwriter, who had success in the 1970s Mylon LeFevre (born on October 6, 1944 in Gulfport Mississippi) is the former Christian rock singer of the Grammy Award -winning band Mylon He arranged horn music for The Band's 1971 album Cahoots, and arranged horn parts for their concert repertoire. The Band was a rock group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999 Cahoots is the fourth LP by Canadian - American rock group The Band, and their last all-original studio album for four years Boz Scaggs recorded a Toussaint masterpiece "What Do You Want the Girl to Do?" on his 1976 album Silk Degrees which reached #2 on the U.S. pop albums chart. Boz Scaggs (born William Royce Scaggs, 8 June 1944, Canton, Ohio) is an American Singer, Songwriter The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard

Toussaint also launched his own solo career, which peaked in the '70s with the albums From a Whisper to a Scream and Southern Nights. It was during this time that he teamed with Labelle, and produced their highly acclaimed Nightbirds album from 1975, that spawned the Number One Hit, "Lady Marmalade". " Lady Marmalade " is a 1974 song written by Bob Crewe, who co-wrote many of the hits recorded by The Four Seasons, and by Kenny Nolan. The same year, Toussaint collaborated with Paul McCartney and Wings for their hit album Venus and Mars. Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942 is an English rock Singer, Bass guitarist songwriter Composer, Wings were a rock supergroup formed in August 1971 after the breakup of the Beatles, by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. Venus and Mars is the fourth album by Wings, Paul McCartney 's group formed after The Beatles ' dissolution Two years later, Glen Campbell covered Toussaint's "Southern Nights" and carried the song to Number One on the Pop, Country and Adult-Contemporary Charts. Glen Travis Campbell (born April 22 1936 in Delight, Arkansas) is a Grammy Award, Dove Award winning and two time nominated Golden " Southern Nights " is a song written by Allen Toussaint and most famously recorded by country-pop singer Glen Campbell. Along with many of his contemporaries, Toussaint found that interest in his compositions was rekindled when his work began to be sampled by hip hop artists in the 1980s and 1990s. In Music, sampling is the act of taking a portion or sample, of one Sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or element of a new recording Hip hop music, also referred to as rap music, is a Music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rap which is accompanied with He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a Museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland Ohio, United States

2000s

Despite rumours at the time, Toussaint did not take refuge at the Louisiana Superdome in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The Louisiana Superdome, often informally referred to simply as the Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest in the history of the United States Instead, Toussaint weathered out the storm in the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel. After the hurricane Toussaint left New Orleans for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and eventually settled in New York City, where he is currently living while his house is rebuilt. His first television appearance after the hurricane was on the September 7, 2005 episode of The Late Show with David Letterman, sitting in with Paul Shaffer and his CBS Orchestra. Events 1251 BC - A Solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes Greece. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Late Show with David Letterman is an Emmy Award -winning American late-night Talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM (born November 28, 1949 in Fort William, now Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Toussaint now performs each month at Joe's Pub in New York City.

The River in Reverse, Toussaint's collaborative album with Elvis Costello, was released on 29 May 2006 in the UK on the Verve label, by Universal Classics and Jazz UCJ. The River in Reverse is a 2006 collaboration between Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint. Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus 25 August 1954 is an English Musician and Singer-songwriter, with Irish ancestry Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It was recorded in Hollywood and, notably, in Toussaint's native New Orleans as the first major studio session to take place after Hurricane Katrina[3]. New Orleans (nʲuːˈɔrliənz nʲuːˈɔrlənz French: La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest in the history of the United States

In 2008 Toussaints' song "Sweet touch of love" was used in a deodorant commercial for the Axe (Lynx) brand.

During February 2008, Mr. Toussaint appeared on "Le Show", the Harry Shearer show broadcast on NPR via KCRW.

Discography

Albums

Video


Covers

References

  1. ^ Alison Fensterstock, "On Top of the Charts: Allen Toussaint is as sharp and prolific as ever", Gambit Weekly (New Orleans), May 1, 2007, p. 23. (Archives online at www. bestofneworleans. com)
  2. ^ Alison Fensterstock, op. cit.
  3. ^ Alison Fensterstock, Cynthia Joyce and David Lee Simmons, "Stemming the Tide", Gambit Weekly (New Orleans), April 25, 2006. http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2006-04-25/feat.php Retrieved January 25, 2008.
  4. ^ Amazon.com: Jerry Garcia Band: Jerry Garcia Band: Music
  5. ^ Amazon.com: Reflections: Jerry Garcia: Music
  6. ^ Amazon.com: After Midnight: Kean College, 2/28/80: Jerry Garcia Band: Music
  7. ^ Amazon.com: Jubilation: Band: Music
  8. ^ Amazon.com: Waiting for Columbus: Little Feat: Music
  9. ^ Amazon.com: Waiting for Columbus: Little Feat: Music
  10. ^ Amazon.com: The Bonnie Raitt Collection: Bonnie Raitt: Music
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  12. ^ Amazon.com: The Best of Three Dog Night: Three Dog Night: Music
  13. ^ Amazon.com: New Traditionalists: Devo: Music

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