Center for Louisiana Studies Archival Catalog

This searchable database provides information on images, documents, and audio and video recordings, made between 1934 and the present.

Home made cassette with Ed and Bee Deshotels and Dewey Balfa

Accession No.: 
BR8-001

Dubs of commercial recordings made by Swallow Records

Language: 
English
French
Media Type: 
Audio
Collection: 
Megan Brown
Subject: 
Cajun, French, Music,
Recording date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Publisher: 
Swallow Records
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Meta Information
Cataloged Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Original Format: 
Cassette
Digital Format: 
WAV
Bit Depth: 
24 bit
Sampling Rate: 
96 kHz
Storage Location: 
Returned to Donor

Laisse Le bon temps rouer (sp) Louisiana Cajun French Music Association Compilation Cassette

Accession No.: 
BR8-002

Side A
Le two step à Nonc Allie
Opelousas Waltz
Tu va me faire mourir
La valse du coeur content
La valse à tolam
Yo Yo two step
Cyprien, Jouer votre violon
Allons à Lafayette

Side B
Lacassine Special
La valse à Mom
Chere Alice
La valse du veuve de guerre
La valse de Heritage
La valse à Howard Hebert
Contredanse à pepère

Language: 
English
Media Type: 
Audio
Collection: 
Megan Brown
Subject: 
Cajun, French, Music, CFMA
Creator: 
Louisiana Cajun French Music Association - 1986
Recording date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Coverage Spatial: 
Lafayette, LA
Publisher: 
Cajun French Music Association
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Meta Information
Duration: 
44:08
Cataloged Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Original Format: 
Cassette
Digital Format: 
WAV
Bit Depth: 
24 bit
Sampling Rate: 
96 kHz
Storage Location: 
Returned to Donor

Octa Clark - You Cant Go Wrong If You Play it Right

Accession No.: 
BR8-004

Side A
Dixie Rambler Special
La valse d'écrévisse
Back of Town two step
Black Top Blues
La valse du grand bois
Cajun Hot Shoes

Side B
La valse à Grandma
Cajun Exercise
Tu à éteindre la lumière
Freight Train Blues
La valse du marais bouleur
Wake Up Baby

Language: 
French
Media Type: 
Audio
Collection: 
Megan Brown
Subject: 
Cajun, French, Music, Accordion
Creator: 
Field Span Music - 1993
Recording date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Coverage Spatial: 
Lafayette, LA
Publisher: 
Field Span Music - 724 Harrell Dr. Lafayette, LA
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Meta Information
Duration: 
46:52
Cataloged Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Original Format: 
Cassette
Digital Format: 
WAV
Bit Depth: 
24 bit
Sampling Rate: 
96 kHz
Storage Location: 
Returned to donor

Brown Family Home Movies and musical performance at D.I.'s Cajun Restaurant

Accession No.: 
BR8-005

Family Vacation footage for first 4 minutes

Footage of band playing at D.I.'s Cajun Restaraunt (Unknown European Cajun band)
04:49 - Quand j'étais pauvre
05:45 - Acadian Waltz (Beausoleil version)
08:17 - Mardi Gras Song

Family Vacation footage continues at about 10 minutes

Language: 
English
French
Media Type: 
Video
Collection: 
Brown, Megan
Subject: 
Cajun Music
Recording date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Coverage Spatial: 
Iota, LA
Publisher: 
Megan Brown
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Meta Information
Duration: 
21:18
Cataloged Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Original Format: 
VHSC-30
Digital Format: 
mp4
Storage Location: 
Returned to donor

Senior's Mardi Gras Celebration at D.I.'s Cajun Restaurant 1998

Accession No.: 
BR8-006

00:00 - Mardi Gras Jig;
02:30 - Senior Mardi Gras runners begging for and collecting money from restaurant patrons;
03:50 - Performing Tee Mamou-Iota Mardi Gras Song;
08:14 - Mardi Gras dancing to Saturday Night Special;
10:55 - Chère Alice;
14:35 - La valse de grand chemin;
17:45 - Footage of kids whipping Mardi Gras;
18:17 - Waltz
21:12 - Mardi Gras Song
25:30 - Reviving a Mardi Gras runner

Language: 
English
French
Media Type: 
Video
Collection: 
Megan Brown
Subject: 
Cajun Music, Mardi Gras
Recording date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Coverage Spatial: 
Iota, LA
Publisher: 
Megan Brown
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Meta Information
Duration: 
29:38
Cataloged Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Original Format: 
VHSC-30
Digital Format: 
mp4
Storage Location: 
Returned to Donor

Wedding Shower footage, Music performances, Hurricane damage

Accession No.: 
BR8-007

00:00 - Wedding Shower footage;
05:50 - Men singing Ay Ay Ay Cielito Lindo;
07:57 - Pointe aux pins (Scotty Pousson);
08:45 - More wedding shower and family footage;
15:15 - Men singing Spanish Songs;
17:45 - Footage of Hurricane Lili damage;
19:55 - Graduation footage

Link to Media
Language: 
English
French
Spanish
Media Type: 
Video
Collection: 
Megan Brown
Subject: 
Cajun Music, Hurricane Damage
Recording date: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2002
Coverage Spatial: 
Iota, LA
Publisher: 
Megan Brown
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Meta Information
Duration: 
31:09
Cataloged Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Original Format: 
VHSC-30
Digital Format: 
mp4
Storage Location: 
Returned to Donor

Mardi Gras Footage at D.I.'s Cajun Restaurant

Accession No.: 
BR8-008

00:00 - Senior Mardi Gras Footage
01:00 - Iota-Tee Mamou Mardi Gras Footage starts
03:15 - Kaplan Waltz;
06:20 - Mardi Gras runners getting whipped and taken off of the dancefloor;
10:00 - "Mom and Pop" on stage with Scotty Pousson;
12:23 - Pistache à Tante Na Na;
14:12 - Bosco Stomp

Language: 
English
French
Media Type: 
Video
Collection: 
Megan Brown
Subject: 
Mardi Gras
Recording date: 
Saturday, February 13, 1999
Coverage Spatial: 
Iota, LA
Publisher: 
Megan Brown
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Meta Information
Duration: 
18:10
Cataloged Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Original Format: 
VHSC-30
Digital Format: 
mp4
Storage Location: 
Returned to donor

Mardi Gras Footage at D.I.'s Cajun Restaurant

Accession No.: 
BR8-009

Tee Mamou-Iota Senior Mardi Gras
00:00 - Mardi Gras Jig;
03:00 - Mardi Gras begging for change; and singing their song;
07:45 - Lacassine Special - Scotty Pousson;
14:00 - Waltz;
16:30 - Kaplan Waltz;
23:23 - Mardi Gras Jig
25:50 - Mardi Gras begging for change and singing their song;
30:00 - T'en à eu, T'en auras plus;
31:15 - Mardi Gras gives birth on dancefloor, more footage of dancing and fighting with the capitains;

Language: 
English
French
Media Type: 
Video
Collection: 
Megan Brown
Subject: 
Traditional Mardi Gras, Cajun Music
Recording date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Coverage Spatial: 
Iota, LA
Publisher: 
Megan Brown
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Meta Information
Cataloged Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Original Format: 
VHSC-45
Digital Format: 
mp4
Storage Location: 
Returned to donor

Family and Mardi Gras Footage

Accession No.: 
BR8-009

00:00 - Family footage - Icy weather;
08:55 - Cooking for the Mardi Gras run
09:28 - Mardi Gras starting their run, singing song;
10:22 - Graduation footage
18:00 - Daytona footage

Language: 
English
French
Media Type: 
Video
Collection: 
Megan Brown
Subject: 
Mardi Gras
Recording date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Coverage Spatial: 
Iota, LA
Publisher: 
Megan Brown
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Meta Information
Duration: 
31:10
Cataloged Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Original Format: 
VHSC-30
Digital Format: 
MP4
Storage Location: 
Returned to donor

Live Performance at D.I.'s Cajun Restaurant

Accession No.: 
BR8-011

Band playing at D.I.'s Restaurant
00:45 - Dans les pins (with Megan Brown singing?);
03:20 - two step;
03:58 - Kaplan Waltz;
05:45 - Allons à Lafayette;
07:19 - Instrumental Waltz;
08:40 - La porte d'en arrière;
12:02 - Mardi Gras Song;
14:50 - Mardi Gras Jig - Footage of Senior Mardi Gras entering the restaurant
16:34 - Tee Mamou/Iota Mardi Gras Song, Begging for change
19:55 - Les flammes d'enfer
21:00 - Reviving Mardi Gras, whipping, Mardi gras and capitains performing for the crowd

Language: 
English
French
Media Type: 
Video
Collection: 
Megan Brown
Subject: 
Cajun, French, Music, Live Performance, Mardi Gras
Recording date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Coverage Spatial: 
Iota, LA
Publisher: 
Megan Brown
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Meta Information
Duration: 
30:00
Cataloged Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Original Format: 
VHSC-30
Digital Format: 
MP4
Storage Location: 
Returned to donor

Nonc Allie Young Cajun Band - Live Performance at D.I.'s Restaurant

Accession No.: 
BR8-012

Ellridge Aguilard - Fiddle
Shirley Bergeron - Guitar and Vocals
Vincent Fontenot - Bass
Nonc Allie Young - Accordion
Barry Cormier - Drums

00:20 - Jolie Catin;
01:46 - La valse à Tolam;
04:38 - Eunice two step;
06:06 - Quand j'étais pauvre;
09:05 - Tit gallop pour Mamou;
12:17 - Cowboy Waltz;
15:16 - Watlz
18:10 - Madelaine;
21:21 - La valse de samedi soir;
26:07 - La valse de Cherokees;
29:45 - B.O. Sparkle Waltz;
32:55 - Grand Mamou;
37:10 - Hee Haw Breakdown;
39:42 - Kaplan Waltz;

43:13 - Footage from a different band begins - Hey Mom, je suis toujours ton 'tit garcon
45:38 - La porte d'en arrière
48:27 - Waltz
50:27 - Scott Playboy's Special

Language: 
English
French
Media Type: 
Video
Collection: 
Megan Brown
Subject: 
Cajun, French, Music
Recording date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Coverage Spatial: 
Iota, LA
Publisher: 
Megan Brown
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Meta Information
Duration: 
52:59
Cataloged Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Original Format: 
VHS
Digital Format: 
MP4
Storage Location: 
Returned to donor

Octa Clark - Alive and Cookin'

Accession No.: 
BR8-013

Side A
1. Kathryn
2. Valse Criminelle
3. Charleston
4. Drunkard's Dream
5. Old Dog Blues
6. Pauvre Hobo
7. Les cocombes sont pas salés

Side B
1. Valse de chagrin
2. Bosco Stomp
3. Chère Alice
4. Old Dog Blues
5. Valse pour les catins
6. Valse d'Evangeline
7. Allons à Lafayette

Language: 
French
Media Type: 
Audio
Collection: 
Megan Brown
Subject: 
Cajun, French, Music, Accordion
Creator: 
Field Span Music
Recording date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Publisher: 
Field Span Music - 724 Harrell Drive, Lafayette, LA
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Meta Information
Duration: 
58:03
Cataloged Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Original Format: 
Cassette
Digital Format: 
WAV
Bit Depth: 
24 bit
Sampling Rate: 
96 kHz
Storage Location: 
Returned to Donor

Lake Shore Mardi Gras - 1986

Accession No.: 
BR8-015
Language: 
English
French
Media Type: 
Video
Collection: 
Megan Brown
Recording date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Meta Information
Cataloged Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Nonc Allie Young playing music at D.I.'s Restaurant

Accession No.: 
BR8-016

Feb/Dec 1988

Language: 
English
Media Type: 
Video
Collection: 
Megan Brown
Recording date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Meta Information
Cataloged Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Digitized Date: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2019