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Allen Toussaint

January 20, 2023

Allen Richard Toussaint (/ˈtuːsɑːnt/; January 14, 1938 – November 10, 2015) was an American musician, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He was an influential figure in New Orleans rhythm and blues from the 1950s to the end of the century, described as "one of popular music's great backroom figures".[1] Many musicians recorded Toussaint's compositions. He was a producer for hundreds of recordings, among the best known of which are "Right Place, Wrong Time", by his longtime friend Dr. John, and "Lady Marmalade" by Labelle.

Allen Toussaint
Toussaint at the Freret Street Festival, New Orleans, 2009
Background information
Birth nameAllen Richard Toussaint
Born(1938-01-14)January 14, 1938
Gert Town, Louisiana, U.S.
OriginNew Orleans, Louisiana
DiedNovember 10, 2015(2015-11-10) (aged 77)
Madrid, Spain
Genres
Occupations
  • Musician
  • composer
  • arranger
  • record producer
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • piano
Years active1958–2015
Labels

Biography

Early life and career

The youngest of three children, Toussaint was born in 1938 in New Orleans and grew up in a shotgun house in the Gert Town neighborhood, where his mother, Naomi Neville (whose name he later adopted pseudonymously for some of his works), welcomed and fed all manner of musicians as they practiced and recorded with her son. His father, Clarence, worked on the railway and played trumpet.[1][2] Allen Toussaint learned piano as a child and took informal music lessons from an elderly neighbor, Ernest Pinn.[3] In his teens he played in a band, the Flamingos, with the guitarist Snooks Eaglin,[4] before dropping out of school. A significant early influence on Toussaint was the syncopated "second-line" piano style of Professor Longhair.[2]

After a lucky break at age 17, in which he stood in for Huey "Piano" Smith at a performance with Earl King's band in Prichard, Alabama,[5] Toussaint was introduced to a group of local musicians led by Dave Bartholomew, who performed regularly at the Dew Drop Inn, a nightclub on Lasalle Street in Uptown New Orleans.[6] His first recording was in 1957 as a stand-in for Fats Domino on Domino's record "I Want You to Know", on which Toussaint played piano and Domino overdubbed his vocals.[3] His first success as a producer came in 1957 with Lee Allen's "Walking with Mr. Lee".[1] He began performing regularly in Bartholomew's band, and he recorded with Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, Lee Allen and other leading New Orleans performers.[4]

After being spotted as a sideman by the A&R man Danny Kessler, he initially recorded for RCA Records as Al Tousan. In early 1958 he recorded an album of instrumentals, The Wild Sound of New Orleans, with a band including Alvin "Red" Tyler (baritone sax), either Nat Perrilliat or Lee Allen (tenor sax), either Justin Adams or Roy Montrell (guitar), Frank Fields (bass), and Charles "Hungry" Williams (drums).[7] The recordings included Toussaint and Tyler's composition "Java", which first charted for Floyd Cramer in 1962 and became a number 4 pop hit for Al Hirt (also on RCA) in 1964.[8] Toussaint recorded and co-wrote songs with Allen Orange in the early 1960s.[9]

Success in the 1960s

Minit and Instant Records

In 1960, Joe Banashak, of Minit Records and later Instant Records, hired Toussaint as an A&R man and record producer.[3][10] He did freelance work for other labels, such as Fury. Toussaint played piano, wrote, arranged and produced a string of hits in the early and mid-1960s for New Orleans R&B artists such as Ernie K-Doe, Chris Kenner, Irma Thomas (including "It's Raining"), Art and Aaron Neville, The Showmen, and Lee Dorsey, whose first hit "Ya Ya" he produced in 1961.[1][4]

The early to mid-1960s are regarded as Toussaint's most creatively successful period.[3] Notable examples of his work are Jessie Hill's "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" (written by Hill and arranged and produced by Toussaint), Ernie K-Doe's "Mother-in-Law", and Chris Kenner's "I Like It Like That".[10][11][12] A two-sided 1962 hit by Benny Spellman comprised "Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette)" (covered by The O'Jays, Ringo Starr, and Alex Chilton) and the simple but effective "Fortune Teller" (covered by various 1960s rock groups, including The Rolling Stones, The Nashville Teens, The Who, The Hollies, The Throb, and The Searchers founder Tony Jackson).[10][13][14] "Ruler of My Heart", written under his pseudonym Naomi Neville, first recorded by Irma Thomas for the Minit label in 1963, was adapted by Otis Redding under the title "Pain in My Heart" later that year, prompting Toussaint to file a lawsuit against Redding and his record company, Stax (the claim was settled out of court, with Stax agreeing to credit Naomi Neville as the songwriter).[15] Redding's version of the song was also recorded by The Rolling Stones on their second album and was in the Grateful Dead's early repertoire.[16] In 1964, "A Certain Girl" (originally by Ernie K-Doe) was the B-side of the first single release by The Yardbirds. The song was released again in 1980 by Warren Zevon, as the single from the album Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School; it reached 57 on Billboard's Hot 100. Mary Weiss, former lead singer of The Shangri-Las, released it as "A Certain Guy" in 2007.[17] Linda Ronstadt released a jazzy version of "Ruler of my Heart" in 1998 on We Ran.

Toussaint credited about twenty songs to his parents, Clarence and Naomi, sometimes using the pseudonym "Naomi Neville".[18][19] These include "Fortune Teller", first recorded by Benny Spellman in 1961, "Pain In My Heart," first a hit for Otis Redding in 1963, and "Work, Work, Work", recorded by The Artwoods in 1966. Alison Krauss and Robert Plant covered "Fortune Teller" on their 2007 album Raising Sand.[20]

Sansu: Soul and early New Orleans funk

See also: soul music and funk

Toussaint was drafted into the United States Army in 1963 but continued to record when on leave.[1] After his discharge in 1965, he joined forces with Marshall Sehorn[21] to form Sansu Enterprises, which included a record label, Sansu, variously known as Tou-Sea, Deesu, or Kansu, and recorded Lee Dorsey, Chris Kenner, Betty Harris, and others. Dorsey had hits with several of Toussaint's songs, including "Ride Your Pony" (1965), "Working in the Coal Mine" (1966), and "Holy Cow" (1966).[4][21] The core players of the rhythm section used on many of the Sansu recordings from the mid- to late 1960s, Art Neville and the Sounds, consisted of Art Neville on keyboards, Leo Nocentelli on guitar, George Porter Jr on bass, and Zigaboo Modeliste on drums. They later became known as The Meters.[22] Their backing can be heard in songs such as Dorsey's "Ride Your Pony" and "Working in the Coal Mine", sometimes augmented by horns, which were usually arranged by Toussaint.[23] The Toussaint-produced records of these years backed by the members of the Meters, with their increasing use of syncopation and electric instrumentation, built on the influences of Professor Longhair and others before them, but updated these strands, effectively paving the way for the development of a modern New Orleans funk sound. [22][24]

1970s to 1990s

 
"Mess of Love"
Words and music by Allen Toussaint, from John Mayall's 1976 album Notice to Appear
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Toussaint continued to produce The Meters when they began releasing records under their own name in 1969. As part of a process begun at Sansu and reaching fruition in the 1970s, he developed a funkier sound, writing and producing for a host of artists, such as Dr. John (backed by the Meters, on the 1973 album In the Right Place, which contained the hit "Right Place, Wrong Time") and an album by The Wild Tchoupitoulas, a New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians tribe led by "Big Chief Jolly" (George Landry) (backed by the Meters and several of his nephews, including Art and Cyril Neville of the Meters and their brothers Charles and Aaron, who later performed and recorded as The Neville Brothers).[25][26][27]

In the 1970s, Toussaint began to work with artists from beyond New Orleans artists, such as B. J. Thomas, Robert Palmer, Willy DeVille, Sandy Denny, Elkie Brooks, Solomon Burke, Scottish soul singer Frankie Miller (High Life), and southern rocker Mylon LeFevre.[28][29] He arranged horn music for The Band's albums Cahoots (1971) and Rock of Ages (1972), as well as for the documentary film The Last Waltz (1978).[30][31][32] Boz Scaggs recorded Toussaint's "What Do You Want the Girl to Do?" on his 1976 album Silk Degrees, which reached number 2 on the U.S. pop albums chart. The song was also recorded by Bonnie Raitt for her 1975 album Home Plate and by Geoff Muldaur (1976), Lowell George (1979), Vince Gill (1993), and Elvis Costello (2005).[33] In 1976 he collaborated with John Mayall on the album Notice to Appear.[34]

In 1973 Toussaint and Sehorn created the Sea-Saint recording studio in the Gentilly section of eastern New Orleans.[35][36] Toussaint began recording under his own name, contributing vocals as well as piano. His solo career peaked in the mid-1970s with the albums From a Whisper to a Scream and Southern Nights.[37][38] During this time he teamed with Labelle and produced their acclaimed 1975 album Nightbirds, which contained the number one hit "Lady Marmalade". The same year, Toussaint collaborated with Paul McCartney and Wings for their hit album Venus and Mars and played on the song "Rock Show". In 1973, his "Yes We Can Can" was covered by The Pointer Sisters for their self-titled debut album; released as a single, it became both a pop and R&B hit and served as the group's introduction to popular culture. 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.[39] Two of Toussaint's songs, "I'll Take A Melody" and "The Maker" figured permanently in the repertoire of the Jerry Garcia Band.

In 1987, he was the musical director of an off-Broadway show, Staggerlee, with a score composed of songs from his catalog, which ran for 150 performances.[3][40] Like 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.[41][42]

2000s

 
Toussaint performing in Stockholm in 2009

Most of Toussaint's possessions, including his home and recording studio, Sea-Saint Studios, were lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.[43][44] He initially sought shelter at the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel on Canal Street.[43] Following the hurricane, whose aftermath left most of the city flooded, he left New Orleans for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and for several years settled in New York City.[43][44] 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. Toussaint performed regularly at Joe's Pub in New York City through 2009.[45] He eventually returned to New Orleans and lived there for the rest of his life.[46]

Toussaint is interviewed on screen, served as a musical director, led his band and appears in performance footage in the 2005 documentary film Make It Funky!, which presents a history of New Orleans music and its influence on rhythm and blues, rock and roll, funk and jazz.[47] In the film, he performed a medley of his compositions "Fortune Teller", "Working in the Coal Mine" and "A Certain Girl". He also performed "Tipitina" in a piano duo with Jon Cleary, and accompanied Irma Thomas on "Old Records", Lloyd Price on "Lawdy Miss Clawdy", and Bonnie Raitt on "What is Success".[48]

The River in Reverse, Toussaint's collaborative album with Elvis Costello, was released on May 29, 2006, in the UK on Verve Records by Universal Classics and Jazz UCJ.[49] It was recorded in Hollywood and at the Piety Street Studio in the Bywater section Toussaint's native New Orleans, as the first major studio session to take place after Hurricane Katrina.[50] In 2007, Toussaint performed a duet with Paul McCartney of a song by New Orleans musician and resident Fats Domino, "I Want to Walk You Home", as their contribution to Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard Records).[51]

In 2008, Toussaint's song "Sweet Touch of Love" was used in a deodorant commercial for the Axe (Lynx) brand. The commercial won a Gold Lion at the 2008 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. In February 2008, Toussaint appeared on Le Show, the Harry Shearer show broadcast on KCRW. He appeared in London in August 2008, where he performed at the Roundhouse.[52] In October 2008 he performed at Festival New Orleans at The O2 alongside acts such as Dr. John and Buckwheat Zydeco.[53] Sponsored by Quint Davis of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Philip Anschutz, the event was intended to promote New Orleans music and culture and to revive the once lucrative tourist trade that had been almost completely lost following the flooding that came with Hurricane Katrina.[53] After his second performance at the festival, Toussaint appeared alongside Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu.[54]

Toussaint performed instrumentals from his album The Bright Mississippi and many of his older songs for a taping of the PBS series Austin City Limits, which aired on January 9, 2015.[55][56] In December 2009, he was featured on Elvis Costello's Spectacle program on the Sundance Channel,[57] singing "A Certain Girl".[58] Toussaint appeared on Eric Clapton's 2010 album, Clapton, in two Fats Waller covers, "My Very Good Friend the Milkman" and "When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful".[59]

His late-blooming career as a performer began when he accepted an offer to play a regular Sunday brunch session at an East Village pub. Interviewed in 2014 by The Guardian′s Richard Williams, Toussaint said, "I never thought of myself as a performer.... My comfort zone is behind the scenes." In 2013 he collaborated on a ballet with the choreographer Twyla Tharp.[1] Toussaint was a musical mentor to Swedish-born New Orleans songwriter and performer Theresa Andersson.[60] Toussaint's one marriage ended in divorce.[2]

Death

Toussaint died in the early hours of November 10, 2015, in Madrid, Spain, while on tour. Following a concert at the Teatro Lara on Calle Corredera Baja de San Pablo, he had a heart attack at his hotel and was pronounced dead on his arrival at hospital.[61] He was 77. He had been due to perform a sold-out concert at the EFG London Jazz Festival at The Barbican on November 15 with his band and Theo Croker. He was also scheduled to play with Paul Simon at a benefit concert in New Orleans on 8 December.[2] His final recording, American Tunes, titled after the Paul Simon song, which he sings on the album, was released by Nonesuch Records on June 10, 2016.[62]

He was survived by his three children, Clarence (better known as Reginald), Naomi, and Alison, and several grandchildren. His children had managed his career in his last years.[63][46]

Writing in The New York Times, Ben Sisario quoted Quint Davis, producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival: "In the pantheon of New Orleans music people, from Jelly Roll Morton to Mahalia Jackson to Fats—that's the place where Allen Toussaint is in". Paul Simon said, "We were friends and colleagues for almost 40 years.... We played together at the New Orleans jazz festival. We played the benefits for Katrina relief. We were about to perform together on December 8. I was just beginning to think about it; now I'll have to think about his memorial. I am so sad."[46]

The Daily Telegraph described Toussaint as "a master of New Orleans soul and R&B, and one of America's most successful songwriters and producers", adding that "self-effacing Toussaint played a crucial role in countless classic songs popularised by other artists". He had written so many songs, over more than five decades, that he admitted to forgetting quite a few.[2]

Partial discography

Main article: Allen Toussaint discography

Awards and honors

 
Toussaint receiving the National Medal of Arts in 2013

Toussaint was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2009, the Songwriter's Hall of Fame and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2011. In 2013 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.[64] In 2016, he posthumously won the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player title at the Blues Music Awards.[65] In January 2022, the New Orleans City Council voted unanimously to rename one of the city's thoroughfares, Robert E. Lee Boulevard, to Allen Toussaint Boulevard in his honor, which went into effect later the same month.[66]

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External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Allen Toussaint.
  • Allen Toussaint at IMDb
  • Allen Toussaint profile, NPR.org; accessed October 5, 2014.
  • Allen Toussaint profile, allmusic.com; accessed October 5, 2014.
  • , nynorecords.com; accessed October 5, 2014.
  • Allen Toussaint speaks about songwriting and creating music NAMM Oral History Interview (2015)
  • A Conversation with Allen Toussaint (interviewer: Larry Appelbaum), November 1, 2007; from The Library of Congress (Video, Captions, Transcript)


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Allen Richard Toussaint ˈ t uː s ɑː n t January 14 1938 November 10 2015 was an American musician songwriter arranger and record producer He was an influential figure in New Orleans rhythm and blues from the 1950s to the end of the century described as one of popular music s great backroom figures 1 Many musicians recorded Toussaint s compositions He was a producer for hundreds of recordings among the best known of which are Right Place Wrong Time by his longtime friend Dr John and Lady Marmalade by Labelle Allen ToussaintToussaint at the Freret Street Festival New Orleans 2009Background informationBirth nameAllen Richard ToussaintBorn 1938 01 14 January 14 1938Gert Town Louisiana U S OriginNew Orleans LouisianaDiedNovember 10 2015 2015 11 10 aged 77 Madrid SpainGenresR amp B soul southern soul funk blues jazzOccupationsMusician composer arranger record producerInstrumentsVocals pianoYears active1958 2015LabelsRCA Victor Scepter Minit Instant Reprise Warner Bros Nonesuch Elektra Rounder Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early life and career 1 2 Success in the 1960s 1 2 1 Minit and Instant Records 1 2 2 Sansu Soul and early New Orleans funk 1 3 1970s to 1990s 1 4 2000s 2 Death 3 Partial discography 4 Awards and honors 5 References 6 External linksBiography EditEarly life and career Edit The youngest of three children Toussaint was born in 1938 in New Orleans and grew up in a shotgun house in the Gert Town neighborhood where his mother Naomi Neville whose name he later adopted pseudonymously for some of his works welcomed and fed all manner of musicians as they practiced and recorded with her son His father Clarence worked on the railway and played trumpet 1 2 Allen Toussaint learned piano as a child and took informal music lessons from an elderly neighbor Ernest Pinn 3 In his teens he played in a band the Flamingos with the guitarist Snooks Eaglin 4 before dropping out of school A significant early influence on Toussaint was the syncopated second line piano style of Professor Longhair 2 After a lucky break at age 17 in which he stood in for Huey Piano Smith at a performance with Earl King s band in Prichard Alabama 5 Toussaint was introduced to a group of local musicians led by Dave Bartholomew who performed regularly at the Dew Drop Inn a nightclub on Lasalle Street in Uptown New Orleans 6 His first recording was in 1957 as a stand in for Fats Domino on Domino s record I Want You to Know on which Toussaint played piano and Domino overdubbed his vocals 3 His first success as a producer came in 1957 with Lee Allen s Walking with Mr Lee 1 He began performing regularly in Bartholomew s band and he recorded with Fats Domino Smiley Lewis Lee Allen and other leading New Orleans performers 4 After being spotted as a sideman by the A amp R man Danny Kessler he initially recorded for RCA Records as Al Tousan In early 1958 he recorded an album of instrumentals The Wild Sound of New Orleans with a band including Alvin Red Tyler baritone sax either Nat Perrilliat or Lee Allen tenor sax either Justin Adams or Roy Montrell guitar Frank Fields bass and Charles Hungry Williams drums 7 The recordings included Toussaint and Tyler s composition Java which first charted for Floyd Cramer in 1962 and became a number 4 pop hit for Al Hirt also on RCA in 1964 8 Toussaint recorded and co wrote songs with Allen Orange in the early 1960s 9 Success in the 1960s Edit Minit and Instant Records Edit In 1960 Joe Banashak of Minit Records and later Instant Records hired Toussaint as an A amp R man and record producer 3 10 He did freelance work for other labels such as Fury Toussaint played piano wrote arranged and produced a string of hits in the early and mid 1960s for New Orleans R amp B artists such as Ernie K Doe Chris Kenner Irma Thomas including It s Raining Art and Aaron Neville The Showmen and Lee Dorsey whose first hit Ya Ya he produced in 1961 1 4 The early to mid 1960s are regarded as Toussaint s most creatively successful period 3 Notable examples of his work are Jessie Hill s Ooh Poo Pah Doo written by Hill and arranged and produced by Toussaint Ernie K Doe s Mother in Law and Chris Kenner s I Like It Like That 10 11 12 A two sided 1962 hit by Benny Spellman comprised Lipstick Traces on a Cigarette covered by The O Jays Ringo Starr and Alex Chilton and the simple but effective Fortune Teller covered by various 1960s rock groups including The Rolling Stones The Nashville Teens The Who The Hollies The Throb and The Searchers founder Tony Jackson 10 13 14 Ruler of My Heart written under his pseudonym Naomi Neville first recorded by Irma Thomas for the Minit label in 1963 was adapted by Otis Redding under the title Pain in My Heart later that year prompting Toussaint to file a lawsuit against Redding and his record company Stax the claim was settled out of court with Stax agreeing to credit Naomi Neville as the songwriter 15 Redding s version of the song was also recorded by The Rolling Stones on their second album and was in the Grateful Dead s early repertoire 16 In 1964 A Certain Girl originally by Ernie K Doe was the B side of the first single release by The Yardbirds The song was released again in 1980 by Warren Zevon as the single from the album Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School it reached 57 on Billboard s Hot 100 Mary Weiss former lead singer of The Shangri Las released it as A Certain Guy in 2007 17 Linda Ronstadt released a jazzy version of Ruler of my Heart in 1998 on We Ran Toussaint credited about twenty songs to his parents Clarence and Naomi sometimes using the pseudonym Naomi Neville 18 19 These include Fortune Teller first recorded by Benny Spellman in 1961 Pain In My Heart first a hit for Otis Redding in 1963 and Work Work Work recorded by The Artwoods in 1966 Alison Krauss and Robert Plant covered Fortune Teller on their 2007 album Raising Sand 20 Sansu Soul and early New Orleans funk Edit See also soul music and funk Toussaint was drafted into the United States Army in 1963 but continued to record when on leave 1 After his discharge in 1965 he joined forces with Marshall Sehorn 21 to form Sansu Enterprises which included a record label Sansu variously known as Tou Sea Deesu or Kansu and recorded Lee Dorsey Chris Kenner Betty Harris and others Dorsey had hits with several of Toussaint s songs including Ride Your Pony 1965 Working in the Coal Mine 1966 and Holy Cow 1966 4 21 The core players of the rhythm section used on many of the Sansu recordings from the mid to late 1960s Art Neville and the Sounds consisted of Art Neville on keyboards Leo Nocentelli on guitar George Porter Jr on bass and Zigaboo Modeliste on drums They later became known as The Meters 22 Their backing can be heard in songs such as Dorsey s Ride Your Pony and Working in the Coal Mine sometimes augmented by horns which were usually arranged by Toussaint 23 The Toussaint produced records of these years backed by the members of the Meters with their increasing use of syncopation and electric instrumentation built on the influences of Professor Longhair and others before them but updated these strands effectively paving the way for the development of a modern New Orleans funk sound 22 24 1970s to 1990s Edit Mess of Love source source Words and music by Allen Toussaint from John Mayall s 1976 album Notice to Appear Problems playing this file See media help Toussaint continued to produce The Meters when they began releasing records under their own name in 1969 As part of a process begun at Sansu and reaching fruition in the 1970s he developed a funkier sound writing and producing for a host of artists such as Dr John backed by the Meters on the 1973 album In the Right Place which contained the hit Right Place Wrong Time and an album by The Wild Tchoupitoulas a New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians tribe led by Big Chief Jolly George Landry backed by the Meters and several of his nephews including Art and Cyril Neville of the Meters and their brothers Charles and Aaron who later performed and recorded as The Neville Brothers 25 26 27 In the 1970s Toussaint began to work with artists from beyond New Orleans artists such as B J Thomas Robert Palmer Willy DeVille Sandy Denny Elkie Brooks Solomon Burke Scottish soul singer Frankie Miller High Life and southern rocker Mylon LeFevre 28 29 He arranged horn music for The Band s albums Cahoots 1971 and Rock of Ages 1972 as well as for the documentary film The Last Waltz 1978 30 31 32 Boz Scaggs recorded Toussaint s What Do You Want the Girl to Do on his 1976 album Silk Degrees which reached number 2 on the U S pop albums chart The song was also recorded by Bonnie Raitt for her 1975 album Home Plate and by Geoff Muldaur 1976 Lowell George 1979 Vince Gill 1993 and Elvis Costello 2005 33 In 1976 he collaborated with John Mayall on the album Notice to Appear 34 In 1973 Toussaint and Sehorn created the Sea Saint recording studio in the Gentilly section of eastern New Orleans 35 36 Toussaint began recording under his own name contributing vocals as well as piano His solo career peaked in the mid 1970s with the albums From a Whisper to a Scream and Southern Nights 37 38 During this time he teamed with Labelle and produced their acclaimed 1975 album Nightbirds which contained the number one hit Lady Marmalade The same year Toussaint collaborated with Paul McCartney and Wings for their hit album Venus and Mars and played on the song Rock Show In 1973 his Yes We Can Can was covered by The Pointer Sisters for their self titled debut album released as a single it became both a pop and R amp B hit and served as the group s introduction to popular culture 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 39 Two of Toussaint s songs I ll Take A Melody and The Maker figured permanently in the repertoire of the Jerry Garcia Band In 1987 he was the musical director of an off Broadway show Staggerlee with a score composed of songs from his catalog which ran for 150 performances 3 40 Like 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 41 42 2000s Edit Toussaint performing in Stockholm in 2009 Most of Toussaint s possessions including his home and recording studio Sea Saint Studios were lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 43 44 He initially sought shelter at the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel on Canal Street 43 Following the hurricane whose aftermath left most of the city flooded he left New Orleans for Baton Rouge Louisiana and for several years settled in New York City 43 44 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 Toussaint performed regularly at Joe s Pub in New York City through 2009 45 He eventually returned to New Orleans and lived there for the rest of his life 46 Toussaint is interviewed on screen served as a musical director led his band and appears in performance footage in the 2005 documentary film Make It Funky which presents a history of New Orleans music and its influence on rhythm and blues rock and roll funk and jazz 47 In the film he performed a medley of his compositions Fortune Teller Working in the Coal Mine and A Certain Girl He also performed Tipitina in a piano duo with Jon Cleary and accompanied Irma Thomas on Old Records Lloyd Price on Lawdy Miss Clawdy and Bonnie Raitt on What is Success 48 The River in Reverse Toussaint s collaborative album with Elvis Costello was released on May 29 2006 in the UK on Verve Records by Universal Classics and Jazz UCJ 49 It was recorded in Hollywood and at the Piety Street Studio in the Bywater section Toussaint s native New Orleans as the first major studio session to take place after Hurricane Katrina 50 In 2007 Toussaint performed a duet with Paul McCartney of a song by New Orleans musician and resident Fats Domino I Want to Walk You Home as their contribution to Goin Home A Tribute to Fats Domino Vanguard Records 51 In 2008 Toussaint s song Sweet Touch of Love was used in a deodorant commercial for the Axe Lynx brand The commercial won a Gold Lion at the 2008 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival In February 2008 Toussaint appeared on Le Show the Harry Shearer show broadcast on KCRW He appeared in London in August 2008 where he performed at the Roundhouse 52 In October 2008 he performed at Festival New Orleans at The O2 alongside acts such as Dr John and Buckwheat Zydeco 53 Sponsored by Quint Davis of the New Orleans Jazz amp Heritage Festival and Philip Anschutz the event was intended to promote New Orleans music and culture and to revive the once lucrative tourist trade that had been almost completely lost following the flooding that came with Hurricane Katrina 53 After his second performance at the festival Toussaint appeared alongside Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu 54 Toussaint performed instrumentals from his album The Bright Mississippi and many of his older songs for a taping of the PBS series Austin City Limits which aired on January 9 2015 55 56 In December 2009 he was featured on Elvis Costello s Spectacle program on the Sundance Channel 57 singing A Certain Girl 58 Toussaint appeared on Eric Clapton s 2010 album Clapton in two Fats Waller covers My Very Good Friend the Milkman and When Somebody Thinks You re Wonderful 59 His late blooming career as a performer began when he accepted an offer to play a regular Sunday brunch session at an East Village pub Interviewed in 2014 by The Guardian s Richard Williams Toussaint said I never thought of myself as a performer My comfort zone is behind the scenes In 2013 he collaborated on a ballet with the choreographer Twyla Tharp 1 Toussaint was a musical mentor to Swedish born New Orleans songwriter and performer Theresa Andersson 60 Toussaint s one marriage ended in divorce 2 Death EditToussaint died in the early hours of November 10 2015 in Madrid Spain while on tour Following a concert at the Teatro Lara on Calle Corredera Baja de San Pablo he had a heart attack at his hotel and was pronounced dead on his arrival at hospital 61 He was 77 He had been due to perform a sold out concert at the EFG London Jazz Festival at The Barbican on November 15 with his band and Theo Croker He was also scheduled to play with Paul Simon at a benefit concert in New Orleans on 8 December 2 His final recording American Tunes titled after the Paul Simon song which he sings on the album was released by Nonesuch Records on June 10 2016 62 He was survived by his three children Clarence better known as Reginald Naomi and Alison and several grandchildren His children had managed his career in his last years 63 46 Writing in The New York Times Ben Sisario quoted Quint Davis producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival In the pantheon of New Orleans music people from Jelly Roll Morton to Mahalia Jackson to Fats that s the place where Allen Toussaint is in Paul Simon said We were friends and colleagues for almost 40 years We played together at the New Orleans jazz festival We played the benefits for Katrina relief We were about to perform together on December 8 I was just beginning to think about it now I ll have to think about his memorial I am so sad 46 The Daily Telegraph described Toussaint as a master of New Orleans soul and R amp B and one of America s most successful songwriters and producers adding that self effacing Toussaint played a crucial role in countless classic songs popularised by other artists He had written so many songs over more than five decades that he admitted to forgetting quite a few 2 Partial discography EditMain article Allen Toussaint discography The Wild Sound of New Orleans 1958 Toussaint 1971 a k a From a Whisper to a Scream Life Love and Faith 1972 Southern Nights 1975 Motion 1978 I Love a Carnival Ball Mr Mardi Gras Starring Allen Toussaint 1987 Connected 1996 A New Orleans Christmas 1997 Allen Toussaint s Jazzity Project Going Places 2004 The Bright Mississippi 2009 American Tunes 2016 Awards and honors Edit Toussaint receiving the National Medal of Arts in 2013 Toussaint was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2009 the Songwriter s Hall of Fame and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2011 In 2013 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama 64 In 2016 he posthumously won the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player title at the Blues Music Awards 65 In January 2022 the New Orleans City Council voted unanimously to rename one of the city s thoroughfares Robert E Lee Boulevard to Allen Toussaint Boulevard in his honor which went into effect later the same month 66 References Edit a b c d e f Richard Williams Allen Toussaint obituary The Guardian November 11 2015 Retrieved November 15 2015 a b c d e Allen Toussaint Songwriter Obituary The Telegraph November 12 2015 Retrieved November 13 2015 a b c d e Lichtenstein Grace Dankner Laura 1993 Musical Gumbo The Music of New Orleans W W Norton pp 110 122 a b c d Steve Huey Steve Biography AllMusic Retrieved November 11 2015 Allen Toussaint Profile NYNO Records Archived from the original on February 6 2012 Retrieved April 1 2012 Fensterstock Alison 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 Bestofneworleans com Planer Lindsay Review of The Wild Sound of New Orleans AllMusic Retrieved November 13 2015 Whitburn Joel 1996 Joel Whitburn s Top Pop Singles Menomonee Falls WIsconsin Record Research ISBN 0 89820 104 7 Allen Orange SoulfulKindaMusic Retrieved 18 September 2016 a b c Allen Toussaint Biography Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Retrieved November 20 2015 Ankeny Jason Biography All Media Network Retrieved November 20 2015 Chris Kenner Billboard Singles Allmusic Retrieved November 20 2015 Hamilton Andrew The O Jays Lipstick Traces on a Cigarette Song Review AllMusic All Media Network Retrieved November 20 2015 Marks Ian D McIntyre Iain 2010 Wild About You The Sixties Beat Explosion in Australia Portland London Melbourne Verse Chorus Press pp 49 51 52 54 ISBN 978 1 891241 28 4 Bowman Rob 1997 Soulsville U S A The Story of Stax Records New York Schirmer Trade Books p 46 note 16 Unterberger Richie Irma Thomas Ruler of My Heart Song Review AllMusic All Media Network Retrieved November 20 2015 Erlewine Stephen Allen Toussaint Finger Poppin and Stompin Feet 20 Classic Allen Toussaint Productions for Minit Review AllMusic All Media Network Retrieved November 20 2010 Artist page for Naomi Neville on uk charts com uk charts com Retrieved June 18 2014 Artist page for Clarence Toussaint on uk charts com uk charts com Retrieved June 18 2014 Songs Written by Allen Toussaint MusicVF com Retrieved November 12 2015 a b Ankeny 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Ayers Michael D September 24 2009 Dave Matthews Pearl Jam Set For Austin City Limits 35th Season Billboard Retrieved November 16 2015 Goldstein Stan September 26 2009 Bruce Springsteen appears with Elvis Costello at Spectacle taping NJ com Retrieved November 16 2015 Levon Helm Nick Lowe Richard Thompson and Allen Toussaint Spectacle Elvis Costello With Season 2 Episode 3 December 23 2009 Sundance Channel Lipshutz Jason August 18 2010 Eric Clapton Announces New Solo Album Clapton Billboard Retrieved November 17 2015 Spera Keith May 1 2012 Letting life flow in Songwriter Theresa Andersson s expanding roles with music and motherhood lead her to a better place Times Picayune No Saint Tammany Edition pp C1 2 Retrieved May 2 2012 Muere el musico Allen Toussaint en Madrid tras actuar en el Teatro Lara El Mundo in Spanish Nonesuch Releases American Tunes Final Recording from Late New Orleans Legend Allen Toussaint on June 10 Nonesuch Records website Dominic Massa Influential songwriter producer Allen Toussaint has died Archived November 10 2015 at the Wayback Machine WWL TV November 10 2015 National Medal of Arts NEA Arts gov February 27 2014 Retrieved November 15 2015 2016 Blues Music Awards Winner List Blues411 com Archived from the original on May 6 2016 Retrieved May 23 2016 Sledge Matt January 6 2022 Allen Toussaint New Orleans music icon gets a boulevard renamed in his honor nola com Retrieved March 17 2022 External links Edit Biography portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Allen Toussaint Allen Toussaint at IMDb Allen Toussaint profile NPR org accessed October 5 2014 Allen Toussaint profile allmusic com accessed October 5 2014 Allen Toussaint NYNO Records profile nynorecords com accessed October 5 2014 Allen Toussaint speaks about songwriting and creating music NAMM Oral History Interview 2015 A Conversation with Allen Toussaint interviewer Larry Appelbaum November 1 2007 from The Library of Congress Video Captions Transcript AwardsFirstNone recognized 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