Austin City Limits (ACL) closes out Season 46 with one of the most-requested episodes in the ACL archive: a vintage hour with the late New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint, performing iconic gems from across his over half-century career. Originally broadcast over a decade ago in 2010, the installment remains one of the most enduring, entertaining hours in ACL’s history. The encore broadcast premieres Saturday, February 13 at 8 p.m. CST, as the final offering for Season 46. The episode will be available to music fans everywhere to stream online beginning Sunday, February 14 at 9 a.m. CST at pbs.org/austincitylimits. The program airs weekly on PBS stations nationwide (check local listings for times) and full episodes are made available online for a limited time at pbs.org/austincitylimits immediately following the initial broadcast. Viewers can visit acltv.com for news regarding future Season 47 tapings, broadcast schedules and select live stream updates.
Allen Toussaint’s behind the scenes work in the New Orleans music world over six decades would be enough on his own to make him a legend. His occasional recordings as a solo artist serve to add to that status.
Toussaint was born in New Orleans and began on piano as a seven year old. In his teens he was tapped to fill in on piano for Fats Domino at a recording session and soon was in demand, expanding to sax on a 1958 hit from Lee Allen.
In 1960 he began as an A&R man and produced many R&B hits either as a producer or as the songwriter. After being drafted, Toussaint continued to record and write while on leave, composing the Herb Alpert instrumental hit
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If you spun the dial of your AM/FM radio on any given day in the early 1980s, chances are you heard a Pointer Sisters record. The group was in heavy rotation in a variety of formats whose playlists included Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen and the Human League or Patti LaBelle and Earth, Wind and Fire. The electro-pop sound of the Pointer Sisters Jump (For My Love), Automatic or Neutron Dance dominated the charts during the first half of the decade. The popularity of these records rested in the accessibility of their lyrical content and melodic structure and the hypnotic nature of their rhythms. Anyone could sing Jump for My Love after hearing the chorus once; after Neutron Dance was featured prominently in Eddie Murphy s breakout film
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