Who wrote the track “new orleans” from Blues Brothers 2000?
the original song was composed by Frank Guida and Joseph Royster “New Orleans” was Gary U.S. Bonds’s first hit, going into the Top Ten in the early 1960s. It defined the kind of sound he’d milk throughout the early 1960s: uptempo party music that was more rock’n’roll than rhythm and blues, catchy choruses and vocal hooks, a thumping beat, and a murky mix. The record sold itself before the first real verse, with the infectious, echoed two-and-one-to-the-beat drum pattern and Bonds’s exuberant yell “hey hey hey yeah.” The call-and-response vocals so common to early soul and rock’n’roll, descended from gospel, figure strongly in this bit as well, with backup singers answering each of Bonds’s nonsensical phrases. When it gets into the upper register, it seems influenced by or mimicking, whether by design or accident, the extended call-response passages in Ray Charles’s then-recent smash “What’d I Say.” The verse is more basic than the chorus; it’s just a three-chord excuse to move the song
