Interview with Floyd Soileau (Part 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
