Always For Pleasure

Documentary maker Les Blank, who never discouraged people from mugging for his camera, joins the later stages of a New Orleans jazz funeral, with comments from Allen Toussaint and singer Blu Lu Barker, in Always For Pleasure, 1978.

Les Blank’s New Orleans music documentary begins with local star Huey “Piano” Smith’s song, but the version with Huey’s vocal replaced by Frankie Ford, who came from across the river in Gretna, MS, which was the national hit, in Always For Pleasure, 1978.