Jambalaya, Apple Pie, Chante Quelque Chose Oh Yé Yaille: A History of Cajun Culture through Music from the Early 1920s to the Late 1980s

List of Songs

The songs featured in the exhibit in order of chapters.

The Beginnings
Falcons’ “Lafayette” (1928)

McGee’s “Jeunes Gens de la Campagne” (1929-1930?)
Choates’ “Allons à Lafayette” (1946)
Chavis’ “Allons à Lafayette”(1999)
Toups’ “Allons à Lafayette” (1990)
Don Montoucet and the Wandering Aces “Jeunes Gens de la Campagne” (1977)
Toups’ “Jeunes Filles de la Campagne” (2006)
McGee’s and Courville’s “Young Donnez Moi Vôtre Plús Jole Blonde” (1929) 
Bernard’s “Colinda” (1962)
Fontenot’s “Allons Danser Colinda” (1992)
Balfa Brothers’ “Allons Danser Colinda” (1977)  
Doc Happy and the Boys’ “Allons Dance Colinda” (1946)

New Styles

Cleoma Falcon’s “Blues Negres” (1934)
Walker’s “Alberta” (1935)
Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys “Corrine, Corrina” (1940)
Falcon’s “Corrine, Corrina” (1963)

The Comeback

Choates’ “Jole Blon” (1946)
Choates’ “New Jole Blon” English Version (1946)
Bernard’s and Chenier’s “My Jolie Blonde” (1976)
Richard’s “Jolie Blonde” (1988)
Allan’s “Jolie Blon” (1992)
Don Montoucet, Lionel LeLeuex, and the Wandering Aces “Ma Blonde Est Partie” (1976)
Balfa Brothers “Ma Blonde Est Partie” (1977)
LeJeune’s “Lacassine Special” (1950) 
Ardoin’s “Two Step de Mama” (1929)
Balfa’s “Lacassine Special” (1981)

The Revival 

Abshire’s “Pine Grove Blues” (1950)
Nathan Abshire, Dewey Balfa, Rodney Balfa, Tony Balfa, Junior Benoit, Will
Balfa “Pine Grove Blues” (1949)

Zydeco

Garlow’s “Bon Ton Roula” (1949)
Garlow’s “Bon Ton Roulay” (1949?)
Chenier’s “Bon Ton Roulet” (1967)
Chenier’s “Zydeco Sont Pas Sàle” (1960)
           
Swamp Pop
Charles’ “Later Alligator” (1955)

Guitar Slim’s “Later for You Baby” (1953)
Bill Haley and Comets “See You Later Alligator” (1956)
Cookie and the Cupcakes “Mathilda” (1959)
Phillips’ “Sea of Love” (1959)
Bernard’s “This Should Go On Forever” (1959)


Cajun Culture and Music
Dewey and Rodney Balfa avec Freeman Fontenot, Michael Doucet et Barry
Ancelet “La Valse des Balfa” (1970)
Dennis McGee “La Valse Pénitentiaire” (1977)           

CODOFIL and Cajun Music
Richard’s “Réveille! Réveille!” (1976)

         
Contemporary Era
Toups’ “Take My Hand” (1995)


 

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