"Working In The Coal Mine" is a song with music and lyrics by Allen Toussaint. Paul Shaffer (L) and Allen Toussaint on the September 7, 2005 show of The Late Show with David Letterman Allen Toussaint (born January 14, 1938) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer and one of the most influential figures in New Orleans R&B. In the 1960s and 1970s...
After Toussaint returned to New Orleans from the army (from 1963-65), he formed a production company, Sansu, with partner Marshall Sehorn. A number of singles, performed by Lee Dorsey, followed in 1965-66, including "Working in the Coal Mine". [1] Left-aligned text Lee Dorsey (born Irving Lee Dorsey, December 24, 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana — died December 1, 1986 in New Orleans) was an Afro-American pop/R&B singer during the 1960s. ...
It was a Lee Dorsey hit, and entered the Top Forty on August 13, 1966, where it reached #8.
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