Instrumentation typically includes drums, bass, piano, horns, electric guitar, and vocals.

Artists such as Roy Brown, Dave Bartholomew, and Fats Domino are representative of the New Orleans R&B sound.

[2] Clear influences of Kansas City Swing bands can be heard through the extensive use of trumpet and saxophone solos.

Like most blues, New Orleans R&B typically follows a standard three-stanza form that contains tonic, subdominant, and dominant chords.

[5] New Orleans rhythm and blues was pioneered by local barrelhouse pianists Champion Jack Dupree, Archibald, and Professor Longhair.

[10] Roy Brown, Dave Bartholomew, Paul Gayten, Smiley Lewis, Fats Domino, Annie Laurie, and Larry Darnell were the primary artists who achieved national fame.

[12] In March 1947, Cecil Gant heard Brown sing "Good Rockin' Tonight" during a set break at a club called the Rainbow Room.

"Good Rockin' Tonight" was an immediate success in New Orleans, and reached the national charts about one year later.

[14] It became his biggest hit, and was successful enough for Brown and his band "The Mighty Men" to tour across California and the southwestern United States.

[15] "Good Rockin' Tonight," made a reappearance in the charts in 1949 after DeLuxe was sold to King Records, who did their best to promote it, something that was not easy because at the time the word "rock" was a slang for "sex", which many people believed the song implied.

[20] Paul Gayten moved with his trio to New Orleans in his early twenties and established a residency at the Club Robin Hood.

In 1947, his band recorded the two R&B hits "True (You Don't Love Me)" and "Since I Fell for You" with singer Annie Laurie for DeLuxe.

[21] Overton Amos Lemons, also known as Smiley Lewis, was known for singing and playing guitar at nearly every venue in New Orleans early in his career.

[22] He was overshadowed by Fats Domino who was also signed to Imperial and achieved national recognition for his cover of "I Hear You Knockin'".

Similarly, Gale Storm's cover of "I Hear You Knockin'" made Billboard's Hot 100 Charts.

[22] In 1949, Dave Bartholomew and Lew Chudd visited the Hideaway Club to listen to Fats Domino sing.

He would later make appearances on the Perry Como Show, The Big Beat, and Dick Clark's American Bandstand.

[27] Domino's voice was a unique blend of creole intonations, nasal scat singing, and a warm tone.

[31] DeLuxe signed Dave Bartholomew, Paul Gayten, Smiley Lewis, Roy Brown, and Annie Laurie.