My Toot Toot (album)
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My Toot Toot was Jean Knight
's second studio album and her first in fourteen years. The title track was previously a Zydeco hit for Rockin' Sidney
. Other cover versions on this album include a rerecorded version of Knight's biggest hit "Mr. Big Stuff
" (which contains a rap intro) and Shirley & Lee's hit "Let the Good Times Roll." It would be twelve years before Knight released another studio album, though she did continue touring and making live performances.
Musicians
Singles - Billboard (North America)
Jean Knight
Jean Knight is an African-American soul/R&B/funk singer, best known for her 1971 Stax Records hit single, "Mr. Big Stuff".-Early years:...
's second studio album and her first in fourteen years. The title track was previously a Zydeco hit for Rockin' Sidney
Rockin' Sidney
Sidney Simien aka Rockin' Sidney and Count Rockin' Sidney, was an American R&B, zydeco, and soul musician who began recording in the late 1950s and continued performing until his death.-Biography:...
. Other cover versions on this album include a rerecorded version of Knight's biggest hit "Mr. Big Stuff
Mr. Big Stuff
"Mr. Big Stuff" is a song by R&B singer Jean Knight. Released from her 1971 debut album of the same title, it became a huge crossover hit. The song spent five weeks at number-one on Billboard's Best Selling Soul Singles and peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. "Mr. Big Stuff" would...
" (which contains a rap intro) and Shirley & Lee's hit "Let the Good Times Roll." It would be twelve years before Knight released another studio album, though she did continue touring and making live performances.
Side One
- My Toot Toot - (Sidney Simien) - 4:21
- One Monkey Don't Stop the Show - (Allen Toussaint) - 2:56
- Mr. Big Stuff - (Joseph BroussardJoseph BroussardJoseph Gaurhept Broussard , also known as Beausoleil, was a leader of the Acadian people in Acadia; later Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Broussard organized a resistance movement against the forced Expulsion of the Acadians...
, Ralph Williams, Carrol Washington) - 3:01 - Let the Good Times Roll - (Leonard LeeLeonard LeeLeonard G. Lee, CM is a Canadian entrepreneur and founder of Lee Valley Tools and Canica Design. Born in 1938, near the hamlet of Algrove in central, rural Saskatchewan, he grew up in a log cabin without electricity or running water....
) - 4:05
Side Two
- Working Your Mojo - (Isaac Bolden, J. Broussard) - 4:00
- Magic - (Isaac Bolden, D. Johnson, B. Williams) - 4:08
- My Heart Is Willing - (Isaac Bolden) - 4:35
- Isn't Life So Wonderful - (Isaac Bolden) - 3:28
- Funny Bone - (Walter Moorehead) - 4:07
Personnel
- Produced by: Isaac Bolden for Bolden & Moorehead Productions
- Recorded and mixed at: Sea-Saint Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Recorded by: Bob Kearney and Clarence R. Toussaint
- Mixed by: Bob Kearney
- "One Monkey Don't Stop the Show" mixed by: Clarence R. Toussaint
- Production assistants: B. Williams, D. Johnson
- Photography: David Michael Kennedy
- Art direction: Bob Defrin
Musicians
- Darryl Johnson: Keyboards, background vocals, bass synthesizer
- Isaac Bolden: Keyboards
- Brennan A. Williams: Linn drum programming
- Kevin Hayes: Keyboards, background vocals, bass synthesizer
- Jimmy Moliere: Guitar
- Cynthia Sheeler and Charles Elam, III: Background vocals
- Barry Sailor: Bass guitar on "Working Your Mojo"
- Donald Provost: Harmonica on "Isn't Life So Wonderful"
- Allen ToussaintAllen ToussaintAllen Toussaint is an American musician, composer, record producer, and influential figure in New Orleans R&B.Many of Toussaint's songs have become familiar through numerous cover versions, including "Working in the Coalmine", "Ride Your Pony", "Fortune Teller", "Play Something Sweet ", "Southern...
: All music on "One Monkey Don't Stop the Show"
Charts
Album - Billboard (North America)Year | Chart | Position |
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1985 | Pop Albums | 181 |
Singles - Billboard (North America)
Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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1985 | "My Toot Toot" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 50 |
1985 | "My Toot Toot" | Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | 59 |