NEW ORLEANS LEGENDAN LEGENDAARISTA MATSKUA! EI AINUTTAKAAN HUONOA BIISIÄ!

The most comprehensive single-disc collection available of Smiley’s rocking 1950s output for Imperial. Features the brilliant Studio Band at Cosimo Matassa’s New Orleans studio: saxists Lee Allen and HerbertHardesty, drummer Earl Palmer, pianists Edward Frank and Huey Smith, and trumpeter/producer Dave Bartholomew among them.

Contains both scorching versions of Shame, Shame, Shame, many equally fabulous rockers, like BumpityBump and Smiley’s classic originals I Hear You Knocking and One Night, covered by Gale Storm and ElvisPresley respectively.

Boasting a booming vocal delivery, Smiley was one of the seminal performers on the 1950s New OrleansR&B scene.