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Huey "Piano" Smith

real name Huey Pierce Smith

New Orleans, United States

Huey "Piano" Smith is credited on 2,104 releases across 603 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1954–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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2,104

Credits

603

Albums

8

Decades active

278

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Biography

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American R&B songwriter and pianist, born January 26, 1934 in New Orleans, Louisiana - died February 13, 2023 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In the early 1950s, he became a regular performer at the Dew Drop Inn (opens in a new tab). He had several chart successes during the 1950s and '60s. By the early 1970s Smith concluded his musical career was over, but then had a brief return to music in the late 1970s and early '80s recording Rockin' & Jivin' (UK 1981) (opens in a new tab) (1981).

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Credited work

2,104 releases · 603 albums · active 1954–2026

  • Performance · 2,396
  • Other credits · 61
  • Production · 9

Studios: Olympic Studios · Pye Studios · Wiley-Griffith Studios · Rudy Records, Los Angeles

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