My Toot Toot (album)
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My Toot Toot was Jean Knight
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

  1. My Toot Toot - (Sidney Simien) - 4:21
  2. One Monkey Don't Stop the Show - (Allen Toussaint) - 2:56
  3. Mr. Big Stuff - (Joseph Broussard
    Joseph Broussard
    Joseph 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
  4. Let the Good Times Roll - (Leonard Lee
    Leonard Lee
    Leonard 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

  1. Working Your Mojo - (Isaac Bolden, J. Broussard) - 4:00
  2. Magic - (Isaac Bolden, D. Johnson, B. Williams) - 4:08
  3. My Heart Is Willing - (Isaac Bolden) - 4:35
  4. Isn't Life So Wonderful - (Isaac Bolden) - 3:28
  5. 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 Toussaint
    Allen Toussaint
    Allen 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
1985 Pop Albums 181


Singles - Billboard (North America)
Year Single Chart Position
1985 "My Toot Toot" The Billboard Hot 100 50
1985 "My Toot Toot" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks 59
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