We lost Huey Piano Smith yesterday. New Orleans lost one of the progenitors of the "New Orleans " sound that carried down through The Fess, James Booker and so many others. A true pioneer of rock n roll. His sound will live on.
I grew up in NOLA listening to Huey and all the great music of the era. Another piece of my heart falls away each time another of the greats passes. I dare you to try and sit still whenever you hear his classic New Orleans piano!
Certainly not a progenitor. The Professor was ten years before as was Smiley Lewis, Fats Domino in 1949. Or for that matter Champion Jack Dupree. And those are just the ones with recordings that were hits.
Actually it's "Dooba dooba dooba dooba" -- a "d" rather than a "g." I had it wrong like you until I saw a live performance back in the day. And I sure loved to dance "the Lindy" to THIS one! (Hey! I'm o-o-o-o-o-o-OLD!)
@@Frenchwordsmith full lyrics. I can't lose with the stuff I use (Don't you just know it) Baby, don't believe I wear two left shoes (Don't you just know it) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba (Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Hey, pretty baby, can we go strollin' (Don't you just know it) You got me rockin' when I wanna be rollin' (Don't you just know it) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba (Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Baby, baby, you're my blue heaven (Don't you just know it) You got me pushin' when I wanna be shoving (Don't you just know it) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba (Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba (Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) The older the woman, the more she teases (Don't you just know it) The younger the Couple, the tighter they squeeze (Don't you just know it) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba (Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh) Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba (Gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ah ha ha ha (Ah ha ha ha) Ey eh, oh (Ey eh, oh)
@@MrMotahead13 Thanks for all those lyrics! The thing is that I, too, THOUGHT that it was "dooba, dooba, dooba, dooba" when I'd dance to this number in the 1960's but, when you listen really carefully, it's "gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba." Everything else you wrote is spot on!
@@MrMotahead13 Oops! BIG screw-up! I meant just the opposite of what I wrote (too little sleep lately!) -- it's "dooba, dooba, dooba, dooba" -- NOT "gooba, gooba, gooba, gooba." Sorry 'bout that!
From left to right, Huey "Piano" Smith, Eugene Harris, Roosevelt Wright, Bobby Marchan. "Don't You Just Know It" was a No. 9 Billboard Hot 100 pop hit in 1958. There's a chapter about "Don't You Just Know It" in the New Orleans music biography "Huey 'Piano' Smith and the Rocking Pneumonia Blues."
@@tippimail1 Bobby is lip-syncing Gerri Hall's part on the recording, and Huey is lip-syncing Bobby's part of the record. Eugene is not on the record, so he's lip-syncing the vocal ensemble parts. The set-up for this clip from "The Dick Clark Show" is not representative of Huey and the Clowns on stage. Huey, of course, would normally be at the piano.
@@johnwirt5246 I doubt you'll ever find a Dick Clark show where the performer isn't lip-syncing. No way was he ever going to pay for an orchestra when he could just pocket the cash.
I always heard "kooba", with a 'k'...& I broke a lotta bones dancing to this, back in the day!!! Fortunately for my continued skeletal well-being, I wore 3 or more copies of this record out. Then I got the "Havin' a Good Time" album, & the rest is history. I'll be 76 this year...& I still gotta get up & boogie when I hear this song. It HURTS.😥😖😫 I don't care. Rock on, y'all. & God bless y'all, Sir Huey & Clowns, wherever/however y'all are!!! & THANK YOU 🌟👏🏿.💞💃🏾🌟 💞
I always thought it was Cuba Cuba Cuba Cuba.I just turned 73 and dang, can this song make me get up and move! I was talking with my Aqua Fitness instructor, who uses a lot of Fifties and Sixties tunes in her playlist, and she had no idea that SEA CRUISE was Huey P Smith's song, and Frankie Ford's voice was ovedubbed, and nobody I know knows "Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Blues before Johnny Rivers version.
Given the miserable depressing state of the world, perhaps this song should be played across the world in every country first thing in the morning. Let us make everyone HAPPY!😀😀😀
RIP Huey. You were a New Orleans original and an innovator of rock and roll. Unfortunately you did not get full credit nor royalties for the songs you produced. A true legend!!
Rest in peace Huey piano Smith..a great artist.and an influence on the music scene in America .and an influence on me growing up in Gonzales, Louisiana...
The song lyrics that someone posted below are not totally correct - (and it IS "Gooba", NOT "Dooba") - OK these are courtesy of John Broven's great book "Walking To New Orleans" where he interviewed members of the group- DON’T YOU JUST KNOW IT (words & music by Huey Smith & Johnny Vincent) I can’t lose with the stuff I use - (Don’t You Just Know It) Baby don’t believe I wear two left shoes - (Don’t You Just Know It) Chorus: A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) - hey-o (hey-o), gooba gooba gooba gooba (gooba gooba gooba gooba) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) Hey-o (hey-o) Hey pretty baby can we go strollin’ (Don’t You Just Know It) You got me rockin’ when I oughta be rollin’ (Don’t You Just Know It) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) - hey-o (hey-o), gooba gooba gooba gooba (gooba gooba gooba gooba) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) Hey-o (hey-o) Baby baby you’re my blue heaven (Don’t You Just Know It) You got me pushin’ when I oughta be shovin’ (Don’t You Just Know It) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) - hey-o (hey-o), gooba gooba gooba gooba (gooba gooba gooba gooba) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) Hey-o (hey-o) Higher the mountain, cooler the breeze (Don’t You Just Know It) Younger the couple, the tighter they squeeze (Don’t You Just Know It) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) - hey-o (hey-o), gooba gooba gooba gooba (gooba gooba gooba gooba) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) A ha ha ha (a ha ha ha) Hey-o (hey-o) Repeat chorus on fadeout
OMG I haven't hear this since I was a kid. 1958, I would have been age 10. I can remember playing it at at 12 or 13 in our little garage band. What memories! Thanks for posting this.
Loved it when I was 7 and first heard it and still love it 50 plus years later! Brings a smile to your face needed in these bad news days. I would give all my tomorrows for a single yesterday in the 50s and 60s will always love and miss those days 😀!
Breaking RIP 🖤🕊🕊🕊🖤😭💚🎶➡🙏 Huey Pierce Smith aka Huey "Piano" Smith (89, Feb 13, rep. 16h ago at "The Advocate" and 2h ago at "yahoo ! entertainment" and "1420 WMSM")
My family & I went to my aunt & uncle's home in Virginia. it was summertime and we brought our friends Chin Li & Patty Proctor. My aunt, uncle & my cousins were happy to meet Patty & Chin. We all had a barbecue and hung out together!! Later my uncle took us to a very nice VFW hall in Virginia. Some of the people there knew my mother aunt, uncle & my aunt Rose. The music there was AWESOME and it was oldies music. A lot of the people there were dancing to oldies music and burning up the dance floor. My mother & my uncle jitterbugged to an oldies song and were cheered by everyone. Then my aunt Peggy and my aunt Rose teamed up with two other people and were cheered as well then my cousins danced with my aunt & uncle and were very Impressive!!! All of us looked at my mother and ready to hand everyone a SERIOUS dance LESSON!!!! This song started to play and all of us were FIRED UP!!!! My energy level went NUCLEAR and my sisters were ready to DESTROY the dance floor!!! We grabbed Patty and Chin and then went out on the dance floor and my sister Eva screamed, " LEVEL the BUILDING"!!! " NO PRISONERS"!!! Then we just DESTROYED the dance floor and everyone else there!!! People were FREAKING OUT and SCREAMING" "HOLY SHIT"!!! We saw people with their jaws open and STUNNED from the dance lesson we handed out!!! My mother and the rest of our family was SCREAMING!!!! " TEAR IT UP KIDS"!!! We got done and the SCREAMING and CHEERING was DEFENING!!!! My mother, my aunt Rose, and my uncle's family held us with tears in their eyes!!! Everyone there was asking my mother, " WHO are THESE KIDS"!!!!! my mother told them, " My kids were dancing since they were little" and my twins Eva And Allie would take the dances and spice them up!!!! Allie is very nervous and HIGH ENERGY which adds more excitement and INTENSITY!!! every time the kids dance together!!! Chin and Patty then hugged and kissed all of us and then told us, "When we dance with you people we are in for the THRILL!!! of our LIVES!!!!
Fantastic song. Remember walking to with my transistor radio and this song came on all kids started singing and dancing Awesome song fond memories Camden nj.
This age-old 1950s early rock recording, was written by Huey (piano) Smith, and Johnny Vincent Imbragulio, owner of Ace records in Jackson Mississippi. Vincent would bring those New Orleans artists up to his recording studio on Capital street in downtown Jackson to make those recordings. Some were recorded in New Orleans at other studios with the Ace Records label and many others were actually recorded in Jackson. That piece of history is not very well-known.
The group appearing in this live performance on TV is not exactly the same members who actually recorded the song. Huey played piano on this record, he did not sing as he appears to be doing here. It's lead singer Bobby Marchan who leads the chorus "Ah ha ha ha - gooba gooba...." throughout the record version. Gerri Hall, who doesn't even appear in the live version here, is also on the record - She is the one who sings the last part of the verses - "Baby don't believe I wear two left shoes" - "You got me rockin' when I oughta be rollin" etc. Bobby Marchan, (female impersonator in real life) is miming her parts here for this appearance.
@@ersatzo - As I mentioned in my post above, Gerri Hall is singing those parts on the actual Ace recording. Marchan is miming to her parts in the video.
@@ausfan100 I realized that you mentioned that. I first heard the song as a little kid when it came out and had always thought it was sung by a woman until I saw the video. So I was surprised for a few hours until I read your comment.
Я впервые услышал эту песню семь лет назад!? Был поражён силой, задором, непосредственностью!!! А вчера пересмотрел "Большой Куш" Гая Ричи. В конце фильма эта песня звучала как подарок!!! Шикарно!!!
Wonderful. I Have loved this side for a long time, and I am OLD. It is a KILLER side. It moves, it IS a hook; -the entire record is one large hook. 'Tis marvelous in our eyes. No wonder filmmakers have recently used this side for many movies. Earl Palmer played the drums on this and the other Huey Smith ACE sides. Earl Palmer is one of my favourite drummers; -PLUS, Palmer influenced my other favourite drummers. Earl Palmer's meter was PERFECT. A person could set The Atomic Clock at Greenwich by Earl Palmer's Rhythm! Palmer played a minimal trap set, -one snare, one tom, one ride, one crash, etc. Simple, but infectious -Not so simple. Earl palmer MADE hit records just as Hal Blaine did. New Orleans drummers are the most deadly metronome-like drummers on the planet. Charlie Watts, drew much of his inspiration and direction from Palmer and other New Orleans musicians. Watts deserved a knighthood The late, great Lou Witney hipped me to this side and all Huey Smith music, -over 45 years ago, and The Morells covered it beautifully with Donnie Clinton Thompson's exceptional singing and playing. D.C. Thompson, wherever you are, your performance of this side overwhelmed me and has not diminished with memory. I miss you, Lou & Marilee, more than I can say. Those late nights after our dates, eating at a diner chosen by Lou were , perhaps, the highlight of my life. Just to be considered a friend by you and Lou, overwhelmed me. We initially met on "The Landing" in St. Louis. We were playing Mississippi Nights, and The Morelles were playing at a club across the street. Regardless of the venue, The Morels earn exactly TWICE mu combo's fee (you deserved more). During a break, my fender bass player, grabbed, and forcefully dragged me to your performance. The Morells were playing "Reds" and you were in the middle of your legendary lead for that side. Next, you played "Don't You Just Know It". YOUR vocal of that tune was wondrous. Of course, our break ran 10 minutes over-time and the club owner was going nuts. Lou later embarrassed me by saying, "What? You've never listened to Huey Piano Smith?!". Oh Dear. At 20 years old, I suddenly realised that my records were enough. I spent well over a year learning to play your lead passages on "Reds" & "Growing A Beard". -But, only a pathetic imitation. I can play the notes, but NOT the the music. I spent the next 20 years learning your style, but, never well enough to use! I eventually did a fair cover of "Eager Boy", -but still no match to yours. Did YOU write that song?! It is a remarkable lyric. The publishing data could not be determined in time, hence, it could not be be pressed. Thank god I never truly learned your style, as, otherwise, I'd not have developed a style of my own! Years later, I found the best Jazz and theory teacher in Manhattan. He tolerated me for over 4 years. He passed away from an unexpected heart-attack. My influences became many. Huey Smith, Lou Whitney and D.C. Thompson remain some of my major pilots. God Bless, Donnie Clinton Thompson and Lou Whitney who introduced this song to me over 40 years ago. I remain humbly grateful.
What are you talking about? Have you attended a rap concert? A Hip Hop concert? A Heavy Metal concert? How about a waffle house at 2 am? In case you haven't noticed, little has changed.
Back in Brooklyn when this record was a BIG hit, things were a lot more, well, kids ysed to sing this song whenever something bad happened to a person or thing which was thought b of as an enemy or some person or condition we disapproved of, or if a kid in a rival gang, or the Russians or just a teacher that we all wished would die tomorrow, had some kind of (preferably serious) misfortune, we would all say or sing: "op, op, op, op,.....daaayo.... Kuba, kuba, Kuba, kuba....ha, ha, ha, ha" What could I tell you? This was Back in Brooklyn back in thecreal America folks.....
If this is the Beech-Nut Show, it must be the episode broadcast on March 15th 1958. It was the fifth of the series, and the third sponsored by Beech-Nut. Interstingly the audience are not wearing the IFIC buttons that became synonymous with the show. I guess they must have come later?
@@catsquirrel3270 Yeah i think the first Saturday night show was in the summer of 58 or somewhere near there.. I remember watching it when I was 8 years old then.
@@recordguy4321 Fantastic - I am 57 so too young to have seen those shows originally, but I have loved Rock n Roll music all my life. Very envious of you... Funny enough I am going to a Rockabilly festival in Spain this coming weekend.
As to the "lyric", y'all ain't from N'Awlins. What they're saying is "ba-cuba cuba cuba cuba", and that's a line from a LOT of N'Awlins songs. Pronounced "coooba", but it's "cuba".
