Interview with Floyd Soileau (Part 1)

Accession No.: 
BR2-021-1

Floyd Soileau:

00:20 - Family History
02:00 - Beginning work as a radio disc jockey at KVPI
03:00 - Popular radio shows
05:00 - Starting his music store - working with record distributors and setting up the store
07:30 - Advertising his record store and building up the business
09:30 - Deciding to devote full-time to his record store and dropping out at the radio station
10:45 - Deciding to start making more Cajun records - pressing records through Starday
12:20 - Releasing his first Cajun record "Manuel Bar Waltz" under the label "Big Mamou Records"

13:35 - Releasing a Lawrence Walker record "Laisse les bons temps rouler"
-Negotiations for the record. (VeePee Records)

17:00 - Rod Bernard and the Twisters - recording with Floyd
18:45 - Origin of the "Jin" and "Swallow" names
21:00 - Rivalry between the Twisters and Boogie Kings
22:00 - Rod Bernard "This Should go on Forever" recording, releasing, and success of the song
25:10 - Record pressing plant opening up in Houston, "This Should go on Forever" getting popular in Houston
26:30 - Rod Bernard going to Chess Records
29:00 - Big Bopper, airplane crash - Mercury looking for new artists and getting Rod Bernard

Media Type: 
Audio
Collection: 
Broven
Subject: 
Louisiana; Music; Record Label, Cajun, Swamp Pop
Creator: 
John Broven
Recording date: 
Monday, February 5, 1979
Coverage Spatial: 
Ville Platte, LA
Publisher: 
John Broven
Rights Usage: 
All rights reserved
Language: 
English
Meta Information
Duration: 
60 Min
Cataloged Date: 
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Original Format: 
Audio--Cassette--60
Digital Format: 
Audio
Bit Depth: 
16 bit
Sampling Rate: 
44.1k
Storage Location: 
Returned to donor