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The Collection: 1949-61 on CD

New Orleans was the source of some of the best and most influential R&B during the '50s, and along with names like Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, Smiley Lewis and Roy Brown, Tommy Ridgley was one of the artists most closely associated with the music of Crescent City during that time, his reputation and popularity belying his lack of national chart hits.