Allen Toussaint
American musician, songwriter and record producer
Allen Richard Toussaint (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." Many musicians recorded Toussaint's compositions. He was a producer for hundreds of recordings: the best known are "Right Place, Wrong Time", by longtime friend Dr. John, and "Lady Marmalade" by Labelle.
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Works
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- A Dreamer of a Dream
- All Girls Band
- All These Things
- Am I Expecting Too Much?
- Basic Lady
- Belle-maman
- Better Weather Next Time
- Blinded by Love
- Can You Hear Me
- Can’t Last Much Longer
- Country John
- Cover Girl
- Cry On
- Declaration of Love
- Delores’ Boyfriend
- Do It Any Way You Want
- Don’t Bring Me Down
- Don’t Make Me Beg
- Don’t Make Your Angel Cry
- Electricity
- Everything I Do Gonh be Funky (From Now On)
- Fair Child
- Fingers and Toes
- Freedom for the Stallion
- From a Whisper to a Scream
- Fun Time
- Get Out of My Life, Woman
- Give It Up
- Give It Up (The Dawning of Rejection)
- Go Tell the People
- Go-Go Girl
- Goin’ Down
- Gone Too Far
- Gossip Gossip
- Happiness
- Hello My Lover
- Hercules
- Here Come the Girls
- High Life
- Holy Cow
- I Can Stop
- I Did My Part
- I Keep on Lovin' You
- I Sleep With the Blues
- It Ain’t Easy
- It Doesn’t Matter Anymore
- It's a New Orleans Thing
- It’s Raining
- I’ll Be Rolling (With Punches)
- I’ll Take a Melody
- I’m Your Man
- I’ve Got to Convince Myself
- Java
- Knockin’
- Last Train
- Leave the Rest to Molly
- Let’s Take a Ride
- Life
- Liverpool Fool
- Love Lots of Lovin’
- Make Me Strong
- Miss Thang
- Mon copain Julie
- Mother‐in‐Law
- My Baby Is the Real Thing
- My Old Car
- Nearer to You
- Night People
- Occapella
- Old Records
- On Your Way Down
- Out of the City (Into Country Life)
- Pain in My Heart
- Performance
- Petit pays, petits soucis
- Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)
- Rain Rain Go Away
- Release
- Riverboat
- Running for the Office of Love (Prelude)
- Say You Will
- She Once Belonged to Me
- Shoo-Rah! Shoo-Rah!
- Sneakin’ Sally Thru the Alley
- So Long
- Soul Sister
- Southern Nights
- Speak to Me
- Sweet Touch of Love
- Tampin’
- Tears, Tears and More Tears
- That’s the Way She Loves
- The Beat
- The Greatest Love
- There Should Be a Book
- This Is My Day
- This Night Belongs to You
- Trouble With My Lover
- Victims of the Darkness
- Viva La Money
- Wanted $10,000.00 Reward
- We All Need Love
- We All Wanna Boogie
- What Are You Trying to Do
- What Do You Want the Girl to Do?
- What Is Success
- Where Is My Baby
- Whoever’s Thrilling You, is Killing Me
- With You in Mind
- Working in the Coal Mine
- Yes We Can Can
- You Might Say
- ’Sputin