Editing Rockin' Sidney (section)

==="My Toot Toot"===
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His big moment came in 1984 when "My Toot Toot" made him internationally known. Sidney wrote the song, and released it on the [[Maison de Soul]] Records label in [[Ville Platte, Louisiana]].  In October 1984, he included the tune on his third album, ''My Zydeco Shoes Got the Zydeco Blues''. He recorded the entire album at his home studio in Lake Charles, and played all the instruments himself.<ref name="Larkin"/> In January 1985, "My Toot Toot" was released as a single in Louisiana and Texas, and became his first true regional hit. Thanks to [[Cleon Floyd]], manager of R&B singer (and uncle to) [[King Floyd]], it became a huge [[New Orleans]] hit. Floyd first heard the crowd's reaction to the song at a bill headlined by Solomon Burke. Cleon was also the president of the Orleans Street Jocks Association and took 20 copies of the record back to the city; he quickly had to order more. By [[Mardi Gras]], it was a jukebox and record hop smash.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}

Huey Meaux got the original leased to [[Epic Records]] (a division of [[Columbia Records]]), who released it nationally, and for a brief moment Rockin' Sidney made musical history. Epic managed to get Rockin' Sidney into the country Top 40 where it stayed for 18 weeks.<ref name="whitburn"/> Later that year, "My Toot Toot" was certified platinum and won a [[Grammy Award]]. "My Toot Toot" became a national and international million-selling phenomenon.

Sidney was featured in ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' magazine, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' and ''Music City News'' and appeared on numerous national TV shows, including ''[[Nashville Now]]'', Church Street Station, ''[[Hee Haw]]'', ''[[Austin City Limits]]'', John Fogerty's Showtime Special, New Country and [[Charlie Daniels]] Jam. He was also a guest celebrity on ''You Can Be a Star''. "My Toot Toot" was played in the motion pictures ''Hard Luck'', ''[[One Good Cop]]'', and ''[[The Big Easy (film)|The Big Easy]]''.

"My Toot Toot" has been covered by many artists including [[Fats Domino]], [[Rosie Ledet]], [[Jean Knight]], [[Terrance Simien]], [[Doug Kershaw]], [[Denise LaSalle]], [[Jimmy C. Newman]] and [[John Fogerty]]. A Spanish version by La [[Sonora Dinamita]] titled "Mi Cucu" sold over a million copies in [[Mexico]], Central America, and South America.<ref name="Tighe">{{cite magazine |last=Tighe |first=James |date=July–August 1991 |title=The House of Zydeco: Floyd Soileau and Maison de Soul |magazine=Living Blues |publisher=Center for the Study of Southern Culture |location=Oxford, MS |pages=23–26 |volume=22 |issue=4 |issn=0024-5232}}</ref> A German beer company licensed it to use in their radio and television commercials. The German cover version ''Mein Tuut Tuut'' by Leinemann reached no. 15 on the German charts in 1985.  Over 20 years after "My Toot Toot" debuted, it continued to draw [[royalties]] from commercial use in Europe, and cover versions in several languages by dozens of musicians.