Making New Orleans Music
It’s a two-hour walk through streets of the city as we dive into two great eras of New Orleans music. First, it’s the 1940s and 50s R&B hit factory with studio man Cosimo Matassa; producer, arranger, trumpet player Dave Bartholomew; drummer Earl Palmer and more. There’s also a chat with The Meters—Art Neville, George Porter, Leo Nocentelli and Zigaboo Modeliste—in which we get to the bottom of the bottom, find out what’s in the pocket, and get a definition of funk from the four men who continue to dish it out.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: "Fats Domino Blues" and "I'm In Love Again" Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
Clip: The Beginning
Ain't It a Shame Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
Country Boy Dave Bartholomew
1947-50, Jazz Classics
SEGMENT: Stardust
Stardust Dave Bartholomew
1947-50, Jazz Classics
Clip: The Studio Band
3x7=21 Jewel King
Genius of Dave Bartholomew, EMI
Instrumental: Dreaming Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
Clip: The Fat Man
The Fat Man Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
Slippin' and Slidin' Little Richard
The Specialty Sessions, Specialty
SEGMENT: Beat
Rip It Up Little Richard
The Specialty Sessions, Specialty
Clip: I'm Walkin'
I'm Walkin Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
Clip: Sound
Let the Four Winds Blow Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
Instrumental: Blueberry Hill Mose Allison
Back Country Suite, Prestige
Clip: Blueberry Hill
Blueberry Hill Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
I'm Gonna be a Wheel Someday Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
Down The Road Smiley Lewis
Shame, Shame, Shame, Bear Family
Clip: On Smiley Lewis & Professor Longhair
One Night Elvis Presley
1950s Masters, RCA
In the Night Professor Longhair
New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
Clip: Fats Success/Live
Blue Monday Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes original recording
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Chicken Strut The Meters
Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
Fiyo on the Bayou The Meters
Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
A Message From the Meters The Meters
Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
SEGMENT: Beginnings
Ease Back The Meters
The Meters, Sundazed
Clip: House Band
Fortune Teller Benny Spellman
Fortune Teller - Golden Classics, Collectables
Working In a Coal Mine Lee Dorsey
Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collection, Arista
Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky From Now On Lee Dorsey
Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collection, Arista
Instrumental: Cissy Strut Rod Piazza
Bluesman, LMI
Clip: Funk
I Been Hoodood Dr. John
In The Right Place, ATCO
Sophisticated Cissy The Meters
The Meters, Sundazed
Clip: Cissy Strut
Cissy Strut The Meters
The Meters, Sundazed
Clip: Look-Ka-Py-Py
Look-Ka-Py-Py The Meters
Look-Ka-Py-Py, Sundazed
Clip: They All Asked For You
They All Asked for You The Meters
Funkify Your Life Vol.2, Rhino
Instrumental: Drums on Fire Donald Harrison, Jr.
Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. presents The New Sounds of Mardi Gras, FOMP
Clip: Mardi Gras Indians / "Hey Pocky Way"
Hey Pocky Way The Meters
Rejuvenation, Sundazed
Here Dey Come Wild Tchoupitoulas
Wild Tchoupitoulas, Island
SEGMENT: The Rolling Stones/Paul McCartney
Africa The Meters
Uptown Rulers! Live on the Queen Mary, Rhino
Clip: Breakup
Stormy The Meters
The Meters, Sundazed
Clip: Today / Reunions
Cissy Strut (Live) The Meters
Live Recording from 2005 New Orleans Jazz Fest