This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Allen Toussaint, a songwriter, pianist, and producer, Toussaint was responsible for national hits by Ernie K-Doe, Chris Kenner, Jessie Hill, Aaron Neville, Irma Thomas, and the Showmen, all recorded for local entrepreneur Joe Banashak's Minit label. Many of the songs were written at informal rehearsals with the singers in the front room of Toussaint's parents' home and then recorded at J&M Studio with many of the session musicians who had played on Fats Domino's hits in the 1950s.