Azizi: Point of information: "I Like It Like That" was written and recorded on the "Instant" label by Chris Kenner on New Orleans (more precisely, of nearby Kenner, Louisiana) in about, I'd guess, '61 or 62. It was one of the relatively few 45 rpm records I bought as a teenager in New Jersey, not knowing anything about New Orleans at the time, not the recording studios and artists, and certainly not that I would someday live here.

Chris also wrote and cut the first record on a much more famous rock 'n' roll classic, "Land of 1,000 Dances." However, someone else covered his record and made much more fame and fortune out of it. Most of these stories about cover versions outselling originals have racial overtones, with some white boy like Pat Boone portrayed as "ripping off" a black artist like Little Richard. However, in the case of "Land of 1,000 Dances," it was a case of an obscure "regional" black artist getting covered by a more well-established, nationally-known singer who was also African-American. I'm not 100% sure who cut the best-selling hit version ~ Wilson Pickett, maybe?