Huey Smith was born in New Orleans on January 26, 1934, and began playing t… Read Full Bio ↴Huey Smith was born in New Orleans on January 26, 1934, and began playing the piano at age 15. At the dawn of the '50s, Smith backed New Orleans guitar legends Earl King and Guitar Slim, and quickly became a popular session pianist, playing on records by the cream of the New Orleans R&B scene: Smiley Lewis (the classic "I Hear You Knockin'"), Lloyd Price, and Little Richard. During the mid-'50s, Smith began leading his own band, the Clowns, which usually featured popular local blues singer and female impersonator Bobby Marchan on lead vocals. Smith & the Clowns signed with the Ace label and scored a breakout Top Five R&B hit in 1957 with "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu," which despite becoming a classic rock & roll standard didn't even make the pop Top 40, thanks to reticent white radio programmers. The following year, Smith scored his biggest hit with the double-sided smash "Don't You Just Know It"/"High Blood Pressure," which reached the pop Top Ten and the R&B Top Five. In 1959, Smith cut the original tune "Sea Cruise," and seeking pop radio airplay, Ace had white teenage R&B singer Frankie Ford overdub his own vocal onto Smith's backing track; the result became a nationwide hit.

Smith cut a few novelty numbers in an attempt to duplicate the success of "Rockin' Pneumonia," some even using the same type of illness joke ("Tu-Ber-Cu-Lucas and the Sinus Blues," for example). It didn't work, and Marchan left the Clowns after scoring a solo hit with "There Is Something on Your Mind" in 1960; he was replaced by female singer Gerry Hall and male vocalist Curley Moore. Smith switched briefly to the Imperial label, then returned to Ace for one last chart single in 1962, "Pop Eye." Smith spent part of the '60s recording for Instant and touring not only with the Clowns, but alternate groups the Hueys and the Pitter Pats as well. Unable to return to the charts, he eventually converted to the Jehovah's Witnesses and left the music industry permanently.

High Blood Pressure
Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'High Blood Pressure' by these artists:

Gene Vincent It gets me high Blood pressure When you call my name Oh yeah…
Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps It gets me high Blood pressure When you call my name Oh yeah…
Huey "Piano" Smith High Blood Pressure 2:46 Trk 7…
Huey 'Piano' Smith High Blood Pressure 2:46 Trk 7…
Huey “Piano” Smith High Blood Pressure 2:46 Trk 7 (Smith/Vincent) Huey 'Piano' …
Jerry Douglas I get a-high (oh yes) blood pressure (oh yes) When you…
Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks I gets a high (oh-yeah) blood pressure (oh-yeah) When you ca…
The Shadows of Knight I got a high (oh, yeah) Blood pressure (oh, yeah) Call my…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns:

'Twas the Night Before Christmas Twas the night before Christmas And all through the fucking …
Bye Bye Baby Granizo No me importa nada de lo que entre tu y…
Don't I Just Know It I can't lose with the stuff I use (Don't you just…
Don't You Just Know It I can't lose with the stuff I use (Don't you just…
Don't you Know Yockomo I can't lose with the stuff I use (Don't you just…
Don't You Know Yokamo I can't lose with the stuff I use (Don't you just…
Don't You Know Yokomo I can't lose with the stuff I use (Don't you just…
Dontcha Just Know It I can't lose with the stuff I use (Don't you just…
Don´t You Just Know It I can't lose with the stuff I use (Don't you just…
Mean Mean Man This is the story of a murderer A cold blooded killer,…
Over and Over (Verse 1) Someone said there was a time when…
Psycho "Well, Mr, and I suppose they all Died happily ever after" "…
Rockin Pnuemonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu I wanna jump but I'm afraid I'll fall. I wanna holler…
Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu I wanna jump but I'm afraid I'll fall. I wanna holler…
Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu Pt. 1 I wanna jump but I'm afraid I'll fall. I wanna holler…
Twas The Night Before Christmas Twas the night before Christmas And all through the fucking …
You Think You Know You should know You should know You should know I'm reachin…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Huey "Piano" Smith:

Don't You Just Know It I can't lose with the stuff I use (Don't you just…
Don't You Just Know It? I can't lose with the stuff I use (Don't you just…
Don't You Know Yockomo With The Clowns Koom-ba-lay-hey (koom-ba-lay-hey) Two-way-p…
Don’t You Just Know It I can't lose with the stuff I use (Don't you just…
High Blood Pressure High Blood Pressure 2:46 Trk 7…
Jingle Bells Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way Oh, what…
Little Liza Jane Little Liza Jane 2:08 Trk 2 Huey Piano…
Rockin Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu I wanna jump but I'm afraid I'll fall. I wanna holler…
Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu I wanna jump but I'm afraid I'll fall. I wanna holler…
Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu I wanna jump but I'm afraid I'll fall. I wanna holler…
Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu Pt I I wanna jump but I'm afraid I'll fall. I wanna holler…
Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu PtII I wanna jump but I'm afraid I'll fall. I wanna holler…
Rockin´ Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu I wanna jump but I'm afraid I'll fall. I wanna holler…

We have lyrics for these tracks by The Clowns:

Coulrophobia Coulrophobia Twisted and Proud, the circus in town We’ll all…
Don't You Just Know It I can't lose with the stuff I use (Don't you just…
Rat Gang bang. Pissed off. Swang thangs. Shit talk. Southwest. S…
Rockin Pneumonia And The B/w Flu I wanna jump but I'm afraid I'll fall. I wanna holler…

Rocking Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu I wanna jump but I'm afraid I'll fall. I wanna holler…

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