Top 10 New Orleans

Check the title – New Orleans funk is not the same thing as New Orleans R&B or soul, so this may not be the sound that you're expecting. Even if it opens with the Meters, this isn't a compilation that plays to familiar sounds or expectations. Instead, it lays the groundwork for funk as it was known in the '70s or plays forgotten, possibly never-heard sounds from the '70s. So there ain't a single cut here that you will have heard or recognize unless you are an unrepentant New Orleans fanatic; some names are familiar – the Meters, Lee Dorsey, Eddie Bo, Huey Piano Smith, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, and Robert Parker – but apart from Professor Longhair's "Big Chief," there's not a single thing here that regularly makes New Orleans comps or that will be recognized by anyone outside of the devoted.

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It’s a strange idea for a compilation. The Soul Queen of New Orleans: 50th Anniversary Celebration ostensibly marks a half century since Irma Thomas had her first recording session, and that’s certainly a noteworthy accomplishment. Oddly, though, the collection only includes material from her Rounder era, a span of about 25 years. There are three new cuts and three non-Rounder appearances, but it’s still a bit like celebrating Mark McGwire’s rookie season and forgetting that the Oakland A’s ever existed. Fortunately, Thomas’s Rounder output has been good enought that even missing some of Thomas’s biggest hits, the record still stands up.

The label U-5 is its collection with the following artists:Andrew Hill,Carmell Jones,Donald Byrd,Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington,Leon Redbone,Johnny Hodges,Sonny Stitt,Turk Murphy,Trombone Shorty,Wild Bill, Davison,Bob Brookmeyer,Jack Teagarden,Nicholas Payton, and more… Listen online now and download music! Album in the genre of Jazz,Jazz Fusion,Smooth Jazz.

They were the most popular songs, the songs you danced and romanced to. Here are 75 original hits by the original artists - the Top Ten hits of each year from 1955 to 1959 - from the greatest guys, gals and groups of that unforgettable era…