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All about New Orleans -- The Big Easy
People you know from Louisiana
FATS DOMINO (born 2/26/1928 in New Orleans, still resides in the 9th ward)
ERNIE K-DOE (born 2/22/1936 in New Orleans, died 7/5/2001)
HUEY P. SMITH (born 1/26/1934 in New Orleans)
AARON NEVILLE (born 1/24/1941 in New Orleans)
THE DIXIE CUPS (Barbara Ann Hawkins born 10/23/1943, her sister Rosa Lee Hawkins born 9/24/1944 and their cousin Joan Marie Johnson born 1/15/1945...all in New Orleans)
FRANKIE FORD (born Frank Guzzo on 8/4/1939 in Gretna, La.)
JOE JONES (born 8/12/1926 in New Orleans, died 11/27/2005 from complications from bypass surgery)
AL HIRT (born 11/7/1922 in New Orleans, died of liver failure on 4/27/1999)
LOUIS ARMSTRONG (born 8/4/1901 in New Orleans, died of heart failure on 7/6/1971)
LEE DORSEY (born 12/24/1924 in New Orleans, died from emphysema on 12/1/1986)
THE METERS (Arthur Neville on keyboards {he's Aaron Neville's brother}, Leo Nocentelli on guitar, George Porter on bass and Joseph Modeliste on drums...all from New Orleans)
CLARENCE "FROGMAN" HENRY (born 3/19/1937 in Algiers, La.)
IRMA THOMAS (born 2/18/1941 in Ponchatoula, La., "The Soul Queen Of New Orleans")
HARRY CONNICK, JR. (born 9/11/1967 in New Orleans)
RANDY NEWMAN (born 11/28/1943 in New Orleans)
LLOYD PRICE (born 3/9/1933 in Kenner, La., a suburb of New Orleans)
CHRIS KENNER (born 12/25/1929 in Kenner, La., a suburb of New Orleans, died from a heart attack on 1/28/1976)
JOHNNY RIVERS (born 11/7/1942 in Brooklyn, raised in Baton Rouge, La.)
JERRY LEE LEWIS (born 9/29/1935 in Ferriday, La.)
WEBB PIERCE (West Monroe)
TONY JOE WHITE (born 7/23/1943 in Goodwill, La.)
HANK WILLIAMS, JR. (born 5/26/1949 in Shreveport, La., raised in Nashville)
FARON YOUNG (born 2/25/1932 in Shreveport, La., committed suicide on 12/10/1996 in Nashville)
O.C. SMITH (born 6/21/1936 in Mansfield, La., raised in Los Angeles)
THE SHANGRI-LAS recorded on New Orleans based Red Bird Records.
Songs with Louisian references...
You Never Can Tell by Chuck Berry (drove it down to New Orleans)
Good Old Rock 'N' Roll by Cat Mother & The All Night News Boys (all over LaHoya and down to New Orleans)
Proud Mary by Creedence Clearwater Revival (pumped a lot of pane down in New Orleans)
Blue Bayou by Roy Orbison
Jambalaya on The Bayou by Blue Ridge Rangers
Mississippi by John Phillips (dressed herself like a Cajun Queen in New Orleans)
(sippin’ on a beer in Bourbon Street)
(down on the bayou why you never know just what you’re doin’)
Swamp Witch by Jim Stafford (from the bowels of the black bayou)
Ramblin’ Man by The Allman Brothers Band (a good time down on the bayou)
(I’m on my way to New Orleans this morning)
Tammy by Debbie Reynolds (the breeze from the bayou)
Amos Moses by Jerry Reed (Amos Moses was a Cajun)
(alligator bait in the Louisiana bayou)
Marie Laveau by Bobby Bare (she was a voodoo queen born in New Orleans!)
Frankie and Johnny by Elvis (has that Dixieland sound)
Niki Hoeky by P.J. Proby (down in Cajun land)
Mississippi Queen by Mountain (where lived the Cajun queen)
Down At Papa Joe’s by The Dixiebelles (there’s a place in New Orleans)
House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals (there is a house in New Orleans)
Baby, Please Don’t Go by Them (please don’t go to New Orleans)
Kissin’ Time by Bobby Rydell (the Battle Of New Orleans tonight)
King Creole by Elvis
Sweet Little Sixteen by Chuck Berry (down to New Orleans)
The Cajun Queen by Jimmy Dean (breezed in from New Orleans)
Mr. Bojangles by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (in New Orleans I was down and out)
Dancing In The Street by Martha & The Vandellas (down in New Orleans)
Promised Land by Elvis (smokin’ into New Orleans)
Muddy Mississippi Line by Bobby Goldsboro (workin’ on a barge in New Orleans)
Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry (close to New Orleans)
Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean (somebody said he came from New Orleans)
(got in a fight over a Cajun queen)
Me And Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin (took us all the way to New Orleans)
Rock Island Line by Lonnie Donegan (she runs down into New Orleans)
Ring Dang Doo by Sam The Sham (I was down in New Orleans)
Dark Lady by Cher (the fortune queen of New Orleans)
New Orleans by Gary U.S. Bonds
Walking to New Orleans by Fats Domino
The Witch Queen Of New Orleans by Redbone
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans by Freddy Cannon
The City Of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie
The Battle Of New Orleans by Johnny Horton
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