Smiley Lewis--I Hear You Knoking (1955)

      Smiley Lewis was born on this day in 1920 and died in 1966 of stomach cancer at the age of 45....

     Music...and how people respond to it can always be a tricky thing to prognosticate. Take Smiley Lewis and Fats Domino for instance. Although their musical styles are much the same, and Lewis had some success on the R&B charts in the early/mid 50's, it was but nothing like Domino's career trajectory. "I Hear You Knocking" was by far Lewis' biggest hit, and was also covered by Gale Storm and in 1970 by Dave Edmunds.....