Huey "Piano" Smith and the Clowns
featuring Bobby Marchan, Curley Moore and Roosevelt Wright
with the Lastie Brothers Band
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
New Orleans, La.
May 5, 1979

Taper: Tommy Stevenson


1 (Well I'll Be) John Brown (cut) 0:46
2 Don't You Just Know It 2:09
3 Don't You Know Yockamo 2:17
4 There's something on your mind 3:42
5 Havin' A Good Time 2:10
6 High Blood Pressure 3:30
7 Rockin' Pneumonia 4:51
8 Huey Piano Smith outtro-encore 2:30
9 Try Me 2:51
10 Sea Cruise 2:06
11 outtro 2:04
12 Funky Mama # 7:58
36:59

# Lastie Brothers band only




source: unknown mics > Scotch Dynarange 120 cassette master (labeled #7/79)

transfer to DAT (circa June 2000): Tommy Stevenson's master cassette > Nakamichi CR-7A (playback head azimuth optimized, no Dolby) > Tascam DA-P1 (44.1 kHz sample rate)

transfer to flac (October 2005): DAT > Sony PCM-R500 > (spdif) > Audiomedia III soundcard > Macintosh G3/300 > Bias Peak 2.62 > firewire hard drive > Macintosh Powerbook G4/1000 > Bias Peak 4.14 (split into individual songs at sector boundaries) > X Audio Compression Toolkit 1.5b1 > flac

Notes: second side of a master casette tape that also features the Como Fife & Drum Band and Baba Olatunji on the first side. Cassette shell indicates that Al "Carnival Time" Johnson appears on this recording, but he apparently does not.

** This may be the last public performance (to date) of Huey "Piano" Smith, other than a couple of brief guest shots in 2000 and 2001. Marchan, the lead singer of the Clowns, died in 1999.

Lastie Brothers Band:
David Lastie on sax
Freddie Lonzo, trombone
Walter Washington, guitar
Walter Lastie, drums
George French, bass
John Bruce, ?