Product Description
Who is better qualified than Allen Toussaint to feature in Ace's Songwriter Series?

Toussaint songs span seven decades of popular music. His prolific catalogue boasts an incredible number of hits and Pop/R&B standards, and he might well be the only composer whose songs have topped the Pop, R&B and country charts at various times.

Toussaint songs have advertised everything from Coca Cola and chocolate to Boots The Chemist (in the UK). They have been used as TV themes and featured in film soundtracks. He's scored hits in every decade from the 1950s onwards and is still doing so in the 21st century.

In addition he either discovered or nurtured the talents of a raft of pivotal R&B acts, among them Aaron Neville, Benny Spellman, Irma Thomas and Lee Dorsey, all of whom recorded some of Toussaint's best songs.

The two dozen songs on Rolling With The Punches - a CD which carries the personal approval and endorsement of Mr Toussaint himself - focus on a 20-year period that covers the 1960s and 1970s. The diversity of performers shows just how adaptable to all sorts of genres Toussaint's work is and offers an affectionate salute to his lyrical and melodic supremacy that has long been overdue.

It would be impossible to fit all of his most famous songs on one CD but our overview embraces several of his biggest as well as showcasing some beautiful songs that are no less worthy of great public acclaim.

1. HERE COME THE GIRLS - Ernie K-Doe
2. HERCULES - Boz Scaggs
3. WHAT IS SUCCESS - Bonnie Raitt
4. OCCAPELLA - Lee Dorsey
5. LET'S LIVE - Aaron Neville
6. EVERYTHING I DO GONH BE FUNKY (FROM NOW ON) - Don Covay
7. RIDE YOUR PONY - The Meters
8. SOUL SISTER - Allen Toussaint
9. WORKING IN THE COAL MINE - The Judds
10. GET OUT OF MY LIFE WOMAN - Solomon Burke
11. SWEET TOUCH OF LOVE - Irma Thomas
12. SHOORAH - Frankie Miller
13. YES WE CAN CAN - The Pointer Sisters
14. FORTUNE TELLER - Benny Spellman
15. FREEDOM FOR THE STALLION - Bill Medley
16. SNEAKIN' SALLY THRU' THE ALLEY - Robert Palmer
17. WHOEVER'S THRILLING YOU (IS KILLING ME) - Z.Z Hill
18. BRICKYARD BLUES (PLAY SOMETHIN' SWEET) - Maria Muldaur
19. WHAT DO YOU WANT THE GIRL TO DO - Lowell George
20. I'LL BE ROLLING (WITH THE PUNCHES) - Millie Jackson
21. TAMPIN' - The Rhine Oaks
22. A CERTAIN GIRL - Warren Zevon
23. HOLY COW - Lee Dorsey
24. SOUTHERN NIGHTS - Glen Campbell

Amazon USA
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Amazon UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0098I7TRM/?tag=imwan-21

i wonder if these are redone or the originals from each individual album.

Ace is a dependable label. I'd bet they are the original recordings.

No Betty Harris?

Looks good, but as is typical with these Ace compilations, the versions chosen sometimes are the most famous hit versions, and others are decent cover versions but not the most famous (probably intentionally).