Huey “Piano” Smith, the R&B pianist and composer whose 1950s hits “Don’t You Just Know It” and “Rockin’ Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu” added New Orleans spice to the early rock ‘n’ roll recipe, died ...

OK. Let's take a moment to appreciate a great New Orleans bandleader. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DON'T YOU JUST KNOW IT") HUEY "PIANO" SMITH & HIS CLOWNS: (Singing) I can't lose with the stuff I use. Don't ...

Huey “Piano” Smith, whose two-fisted keyboard style and rambunctious songs propelled the sound of New Orleans R&B into the pop Top 10 in the late 1950s, died Feb. 13 at his home in Baton Rouge, ...

Fusing infectious grooves with comic lyrics, Huey “Piano” Smith created late 1950s rock ’n’ roll classics with New Orleans flair. The songwriter-pianist’s national hits “Rocking Pneumonia and the ...

Huey “Piano” Smith, a New Orleans boogie-woogie pianist who wrote and recorded the 1950s rock-and-roll standards “Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu” and “Sea Cruise” and who influenced many ...