Top New Orleans R&B Songs
Rank
All Time
Artist
Song
Subgenre(s)
Other Genre(s)
Year
1
206
Fats Domino
Blueberry Hill
1956
2
561
Fats Domino
Ain't That a Shame
Rhythm & Blues
1955
3
1012
Lloyd Price
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Rhythm & Blues
,
Rock & Roll
1952
4
1166
Lloyd Price
Stagger Lee
Rhythm & Blues
1958
5
1931
Fats Domino
The Fat Man
Rhythm & Blues
1950
6
1975
Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns
Rockin' Pneumonia & the Boogie Woogie Flu
1957
7
2190
Fats Domino
Blue Monday
1956
8
2395
Professor Longhair and His Blues Scholars
Tipitina
1953
9
2424
Fats Domino
I'm Walkin'
Rock & Roll
1957
10
2495
Fats Domino
Walking to New Orleans
Rhythm & Blues
1960
11
2509
Ernie K-Doe
Mother-in-Law
Doo-Wop
,
Soul
1961
12
2689
Shirley and Lee
Let the Good Times Roll
Rhythm & Blues
1956
13
2740
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
Saturday Night Fish Fry
Jump-Blues
1949
14
2893
Dr. John
Right Place Wrong Time
Funk
1973
15
2907
Clarence "Frogman" Henry
Ain't Got No Home
Novelty
1956
16
3071
The Dixie Cups
Iko Iko
Girl Group
1965
17
3199
Frankie Ford
Sea Cruise
Rock & Roll
1958
18
3636
The Neville Brothers
Yellow Moon
Soul
1989
19
3813
The Showmen
It Will Stand
Rhythm & Blues
,
Rock & Roll
1961
20
3887
Jessie Hill
Ooh Poo Pah Doo
Rhythm & Blues
1960
21
4396
Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns
Don't You Just Know It
1958
22
4484
Chris Kenner
I Like It Like That, Part 1
Rhythm & Blues
1961
23
4561
Professor Longhair and His Blues Scholars
Mardi Gras in New Orleans
New Orleans Blues
1950
24
4927
Fats Domino
I'm in Love Again
1956
25
4987
Lee Dorsey
Get Out of My Life, Woman
Rhythm & Blues
1965
26
5275
Lee Dorsey
Working in the Coal Mine
Soul
1966
27
5320
Lee Dorsey
Ya Ya
Rhythm & Blues
1961
28
5347
Smiley Lewis
I Hear You Knocking
1955
29
6370
Robert Parker
Barefootin'
Soul
1966
30
6575
Lloyd Price
Personality
Pop Soul
1959
31
7136
Lloyd Price
I'm Gonna Get Married
Rhythm & Blues
1959
32
7226
Dr. John
Such a Night
1973
33
7834
Bobby Charles
See You Later, Alligator
Jump-Blues
1955
34
7998
Lloyd Price
Just Because
Rock & Roll
1957
35
8625
Fats Domino
Let the Four Winds Blow
1961
36
9002
Irma Thomas
It's Raining
Deep Soul
1962
37
9431
Lee Dorsey
Holy Cow
Southern Soul
1966
38
9600
Bobby Marchan
There's Something On Your Mind
Soul
1960
Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
Roy Byrd and His Blues Jumpers [Professor Longhair]
Bald Head
1950
Fats Domino
I Want to Walk You Home
Rock & Roll
1959
Lee Dorsey
Ride Your Pony
Soul
1965
Chris Kenner
Land of 1,000 Dances
1962
Randy Newman
Guilty
Baroque Pop
,
Singer/Songwriter
1974
Dr. John
Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya
1968
Dr. John
Junko Partner
1972
Fats Domino
I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Some Day
Rock & Roll
1959
Fats Domino
When My Dreamboat Comes Home
1956
Smiley Lewis
One Night
1956
Clarence Garlow
Bon Ton Roula
Rhythm & Blues
1950
Lee Dorsey
Yes We Can
Funk
,
Soul
1970
Benny Spellman
Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)
Pop Soul
1962
Fats Domino
My Girl Josephine
Rock & Roll
1960
Fats Domino
Goin' Home
Rhythm & Blues
1952
Peppermint Harris
I Got Loaded
Jump-Blues
1951
Allen Toussaint
Night People
Southern Soul
1978