Smith was a beloved New Orleans session man who backed Little Richard, Lloyd Price and other early rock stars.
, a beloved New Orleans session man who backed Little Richard, Lloyd Price and other early rock stars and with his own group made the party favorites"Don't You Just Know It" and"Rockin' Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu," has died. He was 89.
A New Orleans native who performed nationwide but always returned to Louisiana, Smith was one of the last survivors of an extraordinary scene of musicians and songwriters who helped make New Orleans a fundamental influence on rock ‘n’ roll. He was just 15 when he began playing professionally and in his 20s helped out on numerous '50s hits, including Price's “Where You At?” Earl King's"Those Lonely Lonely Nights" and Smiley Lewis'"I Hear You Knocking.
One Smith production became a major hit and rock standard, for another performer. Smith and his group wrote, arranged and recorded"Sea Cruise," but Ace Records thought the song would have more success with a white singer — as Smith learned bluntly from local record distributor Joe Caronna — and replaced the Clowns' vocals with those of Frankie Ford, whose version became a million seller.
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