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.
Interviews with Judge Allen Babineaux (cont.);
Interview with Judge Allen Babineaux:
02:00 - Discussing their international travels and bad things they've seen;
03:45 - Anti-communists being labeled as communists;
05:00 - Shane asks if people were concerned about the prospect of nuclear attack;
07:00 - Saddam Hussein
08:00 - Defense Education Act - Babineaux says it had an effect on South Louisiana;
09:00 - Integration in the 60s. Babineaux says there were no problems in Carencro;
10:55 - Joined the Navy in 1944, was made fun of in boot camp;
13:30 - Discussing the origins and use of the word "coonass;"
20:00 - Ernest Tubb getting people to stop using the term "Hillbilly Music;"
25:20 - Being called "Frenchie"
Interviews with Mathé Allain (cont.); William Patton
Mathé Allain:
00:00 - Discussing the music used for the bicentiannial celebration - Lacked local music;
02:00 - Louise Olivier;
04:00 - Involvement with CODOFIL;
05:00 - Conversations about preserving French in Louisiana;
07:10 - James Domengeaux's vision for CODOFIL - "Teaching Cajun French would be like teaching Redneck English;"
09:40 - Early French teachers had no teaching materials in Cajun French; Most school administrations weren't supportive;
11:45 - Discussing the successes of CODOFIL;
13:50 - Mathé's positive impressions of Domengeaux;
16:10 - Visits by foreign dignitaries;
18:00 - University students learning to speak French;
19:45 - Gaining outside validation using the Evangeline story;
21:55 - Discussing the future of Cajun culture and Louisiana French;
23:30 - Discussing what will happen to Cajun culture if the language dies out;
24:10 - French Immersion programs
25:00 - Discussing how ancient Roman culture has "died," but it has influenced so many other cultures that are thriving today;
28:00 - Interview with William "Bill" Patton: Former General Manager of Channel 10 and Channel 3
28:35 - beginnings in radio - 1947 at KVOL, In 1950, moved to KLFY Radio;
29:15 - Went to Shreveport and Corpus Christi for a while, returned to KPEL until 1962, then joined KATC
30:30 - Lived in Lafayette since 1935, attended SLI
Interview with William Patton
00:20 - Background and education - Was working in radio on KVOL part time before finishing college in 1947;
01:30 - Was broadcasting baseball games on KVOL FM (See Patton Collection for recordings of William announcing a baseball game);
02:20 - KLFY radio went on the air on Jan 2, 1950;
02:50 - There was very little French programming on KVOL - Al Terry had a show, but he wasn't using much French, Dudley LeBlanc's show was probably the only one, there may have been some early morning news in French;
04:25 - Discussing when and where he worked;
05:15 - KLFY Radio - there was quite a large amount of Cajun music programming - Aldus Roger, PeeWee Broussard, Doc Guidry on Saturday afternoons. There was also French news with Garland Bonin. There were remote broadcasts done from some of the clubs (called Bayou Jamboree);
07:35 - News broadcasts in French with Alden Sonnier;
08:55 - Floyd Cormier's broadcasts;
11:00 - Starting the KLFY television station; problems with FCC applications; split ownership,
15:00 - First KLFY television studio, Patton was GM of radio and television stations;
16:00 - Negotiating with CBS to make KLFY an affiliate; Installing the coaxial cable line from CBS;
19:30 - KLFY built their tower on Eraste Landry, went on air on or around June 5, 1955, CBS covered all of the line charges to the KLFY studio;
21:00 - TV programming schedules in the early days;
21:55 - Aldus Roger's show started within the first month that the station existed;
22:30 - Bayou Jamboree - was produced in the studio. There were two staged, bands alternated performances;
23:30 - Other musical shows - "Smiling" Jack LeBlanc, Happy Fats, Discussing whether Belton Richard had a show on KLFY;
25:00 - Eventually KLFY radio became KPEL;
27:25 - Passe Partout program, Rosary in French, Meet Your Neighbor;
28:20 - Little Ricky's from "I Love Lucy" appearance on KLFY;
29:00 - Disc Jockies, TV Personalities, Musicians using stage names;
30:30 - French version of Gunsmoke;
Interview with William Patton
00:00 - Gunsmoke in French - dubbed in French for broadcast in Canada
02:30 - Sponsors eventually stopped supporting French broadcasts
03:30 - French versus English speaking audiences;
06:00 - Origins of the term "Acadiana;" - An invoice from GE had a typo, Acadiana instead of Acadian, they then started using it on the air;
10:00 - Acadiana Travel was the first business to use the term "Acadiana"
11:00 - The state's definition of Acadiana. The group who coined the term protested that the state was trying to make the "Acadiana area" too large;
13:00 - French programming on Channel 3 - Floyd Cormier's French Newscast, Hunting and Fishing show; Polycarp
15:50 - Channel 10 took the lead with French programming in the 60s. They focused on the rural, elderly audience.
17:00 - Channel 10 managers after Patton left;
17:50 - Cajun character on the show "Combat";
18:40 - John Plauché's Polycarp kid's program - Ken Guidry, V.J. Boulet;
23:00 - Discussing why Polycarp ended - FCC made new rules saying that children's show personalities could no longer perform the commercials;
24:00 - Plauché's death;
30:00 - Remote broadcasts from Landry's Paladium.
Interview with William Patton (cont.)
00:00 - Political broadcasts - Gov. McKeithen. Bernard talks about an incident where Dudley LeBlanc slapped somebody during a broadcast on the radio;
01:50 - Puggy Moity;
03:15 - Daily Advertiser article about U.S. State Dept. asking for tapes of political speeches in Cajun French;
Interview with William Patton (cont.)
00:00 - arrival at USL - August of 1956;
00:50 - Academic atmosphere at USL at the time of his arrival - "Open and exciting campus";
02:00 - Dr. Bernard Bienvenu - Management Dept - Complained about being intimidated about McCarthyism;
02:50 - Simpson finished his PhD at Berkeley - was instructed to sign an oath saying he was not he was not and will never be a member of any organization which is on the Attorney General's list. Was forced out for refusing to sign; Simpson was a member of the Methodist Church - The Church was on the AG list.
04:00 - Was also asked to sign a similar oath at USL, didn't sign and wasn't given any trouble;
10:15 - USL desegregation;
11:00 - Tolerance in Cajun country - "Lafayette was the most live and let live culture that I have ever lived in...And I've lived and taught in San Francisco."
14:15 - Instances of racial violence on campus - Says there were probably incidents, but that Shane should talk to Raymond Blanco, he was "hands-on" and didn't tolerate violence."
15:30 - Instances of McCarthyism on campus and in Acadiana; Says there was a 10-15 year delay in McCarthyism arriving here;
16:45 - Incident involving Walter Craddick;
21:10 - Hippies on campus - Says they were good students, for the most part;
23:30 - Misbehavior in class;
Interviews with William Patton (cont.) and Marvin Ducote
Dr. Amos Simpson:
00:00 - Traditional roles of women;
01:50 - Bombing of the ROTC building at USL;
05:15 - Small anti-Vietnam demonstrations at the old Martin Hall and old Union;
06:45 - Cajun hippies;
09:15 - Students cheating on tests;
12:40 - Oil Center's impact on the growth of USL and Lafayette in 1960s;
15:30 - Interview with Marvin Ducote from Avoyelles Parish:
15:45 - Speaking French in primary school in Cottonport - had 2 or 3 classmates who couldn't speak English;
17:15 - Raised in a bilingual family - Parents and grandparents primarily spoke French, but could all speak English;
19:00 - Military service - Served in the Army, Basic training was in Arkansas, went to Korea. Was furloughed and came home when his father was dying from Cancer;
22:30 - culture shock when leaving LA for the first time;
24:40 - Discussing the word "coonass";
25:20 - Vietnam war and protests;
27:00 - Other instances of culture shock while serving;
28:50 - Army was desegregated by the time he was serving;
31:15 - First part of Amos Simpson interview is repeated;
Interviews with Marvin Ducote and Tom Pears
Interview with Marvin Ducote:
00:00 - Attitude of the public towards hippies and protesters;
00:55 - atomic safety;
01:30 - Would attend 2-3 lectures on various subjects per week during basic training;
03:44 - Basic training with a Lithuanian serviceman;
06:00 - First got a television in the 60s, his mother probably got one by 1954;
06:30 - French/local programming on television;
10:00 - Interview with Tom Pears:
11:15 - His mother was a radio announcer on KVOL from 1942-1945;
12:00 - Pears joined his parents in Texas after WWII to go to school, was so unhappy he moved back to Lafayette
12:55 - G.I. Bill;
14:40 - Job search; finally got a job at KVOL making 25 cents/hour;
17:00 - Worked at KVOL for 11 years
17:30 - Received an offer to manage a furniture store where he would receive a furnished house, a Cadillac and made $5,000/year - Talked to his boss at KVOL about it, decided to pass.
20:30 - the Declouets build KLFY-TV, Pears starts working there as the General Manager;
25:00 - Declouet tells Pears that the station is for sale, purchase by people in Waco, Pears continued working for them;
28:45 - Got a company car after the station was bought out;
Interview with Tom Pears(cont.)
01:50 - Declouet family sold KLFY to Texoma;
03:50 - Pears and Bill Patton worked together at KVOL;
05:40 - Baseball broadcasts - Bill Patton was the announcer;
07:35 - Merchants weren't buying ads, they were having trouble keeping the FM transmitter on frequency, station closed;
08:30 - Somebody else put the station back on the air about a year later, then ended up selling the station after a few years;
09:30 - KVOL's long-range reach;
12:15 - KPEL and KXKW Stations;
14:00 - KPEL Radio was originally KLFY Radio;
15:00 - Pears became GM at Channel 10
15:25 - Aldus Roger's show and other Cajun oriented shows; Happy Fats; other musical shows;
20:30 - Non-musical French Programming - Bertrand LeBlanc, Floyd Cormier,
24:45 - Passe Partout - discussion about naming the show; early hosts
28:45 - Doug Lastrappes
29:45 - Tom's wife joins the conversation and talks about coming up with the name for "Passe Partout"
Interview with Tom Pears and Laura Pears(cont.)
00:00 - Laura Pears on Tom Pears' desire to represent the locals on TV;
01:20 - Naming of the "Passe Partout" morning show;
02:00 - Local politicians;
04:30 - Early local programming and the pivot away from a local focus after a management change;
07:25 - Jim Olivier;
08:00 - French and English music programming - Pears added in some nationally produced music English music programming post "Passe Partout";
10:15 - The Plant Lady - segment on "Passe Partout";
12:00 - Floyd Cormier was replaced by Jim Olivier;
14:40 - Talking about Jim Olivier's personality and how it worked for local television;
22:20 - 1960s programming aimed at French speaking audiences - Happy Fats, Aldus Roger, Cajun Bandstand with live dancers
23:00 - Belton Richard was the host band on some episodes of Cajun Bandstand
25:55 - Aldus Roger's "La valse de KLFY";
27:15 - Michael Doucet
29:30 - Saturday Hop Show;
30:00 - Other songs written for KLFY
Interview with Tom Pears (cont.)
00:00 - Happy Fats, Eddy "Raven" Futch;
01:15 - Aldus Roger's show; Cajun Bandstand Show, Saturday Hop, Lil Bob's Show, Rockin' Sidney's Show
02:20 - Feuds between bands
03:20 - Pressure to be profitable;
04:10 - Music shows dying out in the 70s, studio issues and switching to remote broadcasts for these types of shows;
news programming
Interviews with Raymond Blanco and Cleve Thibodeaux
00:45 - USL ROTC building bombing - anit-war movement;
01:55 - 3 students involved in bombing;
04:15 - Blanco says there was a car with dynamite found behind the sudent union - they were planning to blow up the Lafayette Courthouse;
06:00 - More about the students who bombed the ROTC building;
08:00 - Integration - Blanco says USL had the first African American football and basketball student athletes;
11:40 - Cajun hippies;
12:15 - "The most militant people on this campus were ex-seminarians";
13:00 - Flag protests;
19:00 - Coaching career; USL's change from the Bulldogs to the Ragin' Cajuns;
26:40 - Interview with Carol Bernard - 5/25/1998 - Declined to be interviewed on tape
27:00 - Interview with Cleve Thibodeaux - September 18, 1998;
27:15 - Left to go overseas on September 16, 1944 - Served in India and China;
28:15 - Eause Dugas joins the conversation - Talks about a bomb shelter that he built in 1961;
Interview with Cleve Thibodeaux and Eause Dugas
00:00 - Flooding on his land;
00:45 - Talking about bad roads in his area;
02:45 - French in school;
03:20 - More discussion on his bomb shelter - They were most worried about radiation;
04:45 - Building of the shelter. Someone in Lafayette designed and built it, used 20 tons of concrete, also had a well installed that the shelter can access;
07:30 - Food storage in the shelter;
09:30 - Using the shelter for storms;
10:10 - Targets for potential bombings;
11:30 - U.S. Government compiling data on how many private bomb shelters existed
14:50 - Meteor crash in Vermilion Bay - 1957. Many people thought it was a bomb;
17:20 - Military service - culture shock, never had basic training;
20:40 - Never felt out of place for being Cajun. Says people couldn't tell he was from Louisiana;
21:30 - Says his French came in handy while serving. Says he used his French a fair amount in China;
25:00 - Hearing about the Atomic bomb being used in Japan while he was in China;
26:15 - Explaining how LORAN (Long Range Navigation) works; He mostly worked in with radar and LORAN while in the service;
28:25 - Went into radio and television after returning from the war;
29:00 - Went to MIT in 1944 to learn about circuit design;
Interview with Barry Jean Ancelet
00:45 - Cajun revival - Bernard says there are two concurrent movements - Genteel Acadian movement, parallel grassroots movement in the mid 60s;
05:45 - James Domengeaux/CODOFIL;
07:20 - Balfa Brothers at Newport Folk Fest. Barry talks about how he, Zachary Richard, and their peers were involved in the revival;
09:00 - He was a student aid at CODOFIL for a while. Mentions that he and Zachary were sometimes militant, would refuse to speak English at times;
10:30 - Other leaders of the revival - David Marcantel, Warren Perrin, Richard Guidry;
11:20 - Dudley LeBlanc;
12:50 - Domengeaux's efforts;
15:00 - French language revival in Canada
17:00 - Discussing how early French education in Louisiana did not work;
18:20 - More on Domengeaux's approach and personal opinions;
20:45 - 1950s - people from rural areas moved to the city for work, intensified the notion of what their culture was;
22:00 - America's interest in folk music in the early 60s; Pete Seeger's influence;
23:20 - Civil Rights Movement;
25:00 - Discusses his studies at Indiana University;
29:00 - Quebec's role in the revival in Louisiana;
Interview with Barry Jean Ancelet (cont.)
00:30 - More thoughts on Jimmy Domengeaux;
02:00 - Problems within French education; importing French teachers;
04:20 - You can teach kids standard French, while still reinforcing "their own" French. Teaching standard French in school is a non-issue;
05:45 - Domengeaux would always apologize for the way he spoke French, Didn't care for Cajun/Creole music;
07:15 - Genteel Acadians and Cajun music - The thought of it as bas clas;
08:00 - Dewey Balfa changes Domengeaux's mind (to an extent) on Cajun music;
10:00 - Domengeaux's thoughts on Inez Catalon's performance at one of the early Festivals Acadiens;
11:00 - Domengeaux's legacy;
11:50 - The Faulk affair - (Assuming this is something with James Donald Faulk's book);
13:30 - "Cris sur le Bayou" - Domengeaux thought Cajun French shouldn't be taught, partially because there were no written examples until this book of poetry had been published. After this Richard Guidry was hired by the State Board of Education;
15:50 - Codofil's early funding through the Bilingual Education Act from the federal government;
18:20 - Bernard asks Ancelet if he ever heard a story about the FBI spying on CODOFIL;
18:45 - Discussing Barry's early interest in Cajun culture; Recounts hearing Roger Mason performing in Paris for the first time;
22:40 - Barry first meeting Dewey Balfa;
24:10 - Barry's early interviews that he conducted for CODOFIL;
25:30 - Ron and Fay Stanford's fieldwork done through an NEA grant;
28:00 - Early planning of the first Festivals Acadiens et Créoles;
Interview with Barry Jean Ancelet (cont.)
00:00 - Organizing the first Cajun Music Festival; Keith Cravey and Carol Rachou's roles in the festival;
03:30 - Booking artists for the festival, Paul Tate resigning from the committee;
04:40 - No artists were paid, but they all showed up and performed;
05:20 - Purposely designed the festival to not allow dancing. They considered having it in Bayou Bijou, then the Heymann Center before settling on Blackham Colosseum;
07:30 - Discussing why the festival was so important; Getting the public involved in the revival;; Was referred to as a "Grassroots rally";
09:30 - Domengeaux admits that he was wrong about how the festival would turn out;
12:20 - Moving the festival to Girard Park; Combining the crafts festival with the music festival
13:00 - Music festival breaks up with CODOFIL in 1980;
15:45 - First poster featuring Canray Fontenot;
17:00 - Arguments between Ancelet and Domengeaux;
18:30 - Discussion about Barry's early poetry;
22:30 - "How can you encourage people to be proud of themselves when they're declaring that they're proud to be coonasses?" Barry feels that many people internalized the stigma;
23:20 - "The Faulk Issue" - James Donald Faulk's textbook "Cajun French," was a collection of phrases and vocabulary. He and many others felt that they needed to teach kids to teach French that kids could use with their grandparents. There were two columns in addition to the phrases in the book - English and a pronunciation guide using English phonetics. They tried to talk him into adding a third column written with the French spelling system exactly how a Cajun would say it.
Interview with Barry Jean Ancelet (cont.); and Carl Brassueax
Interview with Barry Ancelet:
00:00 - Domengeaux - Wanted to integrate LA with the rest of the French speaking world - "He wanted to do it by getting us to speak Standard French, I wanted to do it by forcing the French speaking world to accept us on our own terms;
00:55 - It made sense for us to use the existing French spelling and writing systems;
02:45 - bias against Louisiana French;
04:30 - More discussion about Faulk's book;
05:30 - More about Domengeaux's opinions on Louisiana French, reactions by locals;
10:00 - Alan Lomax's involvement in the language renaissance;
12:15 - Establishing the Center for Acadian and Creole Folklore (Center for Louisiana Studies Archive);
13:00 - Picard and Debbie Clifton try to get Cajun French into LSU;
15:00 - David Marcantel, Richard Guidry;
17:00 - Domengeaux's motives for getting involved;
20:00 - Working for CODOFIL as a college student;
Carl Brasseaux:
23:15 - Cajuns and politics;
27:00 - Integration of schools bussing children into school;
Interview with Carl Brasseaux (cont.)
00:00 - Cajuns views on FDR, Truman and Eisenhower;
02:30 - Religious divide in the '50s;
04:30 - Climate of the South;
07:15 - Jimmy Carter;
09:00 - Reagan and Carter's administrations;
12:30 - Populism;
14:00 - Cajuns during this time were socially conservative but willing to follow populist candidates;
16:50 - David Duke;
22:20 - John Breaux;
24:30 - C.J. Bobby Dugas - references a speech he gave in the 70s;
27:00 - "Coonass"
29:20 - Ulysse Ricard - Part of a group trying to get LSU to teach Louisiana French;
31:30 - Gentile Acadians
35:00 - Grassroots cultural surge in the late 60s;
37:00 - Public perception of Cajuns;
39:00 - Bilingual education in schools;
40:50 - Instead of having native LA speakers get certified to teach French in schools, they brought in Belgians and Frenchmen, most of whom had no training to teach. They were here teaching in lieu of military service.
42:30 - The Randy Watley controversy, basically the same thing that happened with Faulk about a decade later;
43:30 - Change in CODOFIL's method of operations;
Interview with Carl Brasseaux (cont.)
00:00 - Cajun culture becoming trendy in France in the 70s;
01:30 - Bernard's theory on why Cajun culture became more popular around America in the 1980s;
02:00 - Oil bust caused many Cajuns to move, they started restaurants around the country - Atlanta, Charlotte, Orlando, DFW, Houston;
03:45 - Images of Cajuns in the media;
07:25 - "Culture for sale";
10:00 - CODOFIL and Edwin Edwards;
12:20 - Rumor about CODOFIL being infiltrated by the FBI and CIA;
15:45 - War protests;
Interview with Richard Guidry
00:25 - CODOFIL was a response to the grassroots preservation efforts of people like Dudley LeBlanc;
02:45 - French education - At first, CODOFIL programs were only teaching French for 30 minutes per day;
04:30 - Bilingual education act was completely separate from the CODOFIL program;
09:00 - Deficiencies of the early CODOFIL programs;
14:30 - Recruiting Canadian French teachers;
19:00 - Shortcomings of how teachers were hired;
20:45 - Retaining hires with J1 visa;
22:00 - Developing a curriculum guide for the bilingual program;
22:30 - Language learning and retention; French teachers
Interview with Richard Guidry (cont.)
00:00 - Louisiana's education system;
01:30 - History of immersion programs;
03:20 - Parallel Spanish Immersion Program;
07:30 - Process of building immersion programs from nothing;
09:20 - Calcasieu's Spanish immersion program;
11:00 - Influential persons in the immersion movement;
15:30 - Discussing immersion programs around the state;
18:00 - Discussing the timelines of the various French programs starting in the late 60s;
21:00 - Issues with middle school programs;
26:30 - Successes of program in Acadia Parish;
Interview with Elvin Soileau (cont.)
ÒcoonassÓ; G. I. bill; welding; farming; picking up French in the home; Vietnam protesters; cold war; t. v.; air conditioning; plumbing; race relations; supporting WWII; news form the war; movies; cowboys; future of cajuns; tourism
Interview with Richard Guidry (cont.)
immersion in middle school; monetary allocations; bilingual advantage; FBI; Cajun French; Philippe Gustin
Interview with Richard Guidry (cont.); Johnnie Allan
Richard Guidry:learning Cajun French from parents; eating turtlesJohnnie Allan:Polycarp theme song
Interview with Allen J. Lasseigne
make up of Battalion; Robert Mouton; joining the Battalion; two platoons; training; Pearl Harbor; heritage; Pearl Harbor; Panama; appealing to Cajun pride; ethnicity of members; battalion vs. brigade; Catahoula training; legitimacy of battalion
Interview with T. K. Hulin
birthday; early recordings; Huey Meaux; recording for other labels; T. K.Õs Nightclub; Boure label; Smoke; Charlene Howard; nicknames;
Interview with Warren Perrin
petition to have Queen Elizabeth apologize for Acadian expulsion; England apologizes for other things; three things petition calls for; letter form the IRA; conference; file repeats
Interview with Philippe Gustin
moving to Louisiana to teach French; Belgians; working with CODOFIL; Jimmy Domengeaux; other teachers imported by CODOFIL; Cajun French; controversy; Domengeaux redeems himself; training Louisiana teachers; CODOFILÕs international ties; evaluating the program; immersion programs; success of immersion in Lafayette; statewide goals; older programs to save Cajun French; Raymond Rogers; Rogers/Domengeaux relationship; becomming director of CODOFIL; Claire Heymann; directors;
Interview with Philippe Gustin
being director of CODOFIL; Bertrand; CODOFIL under different directors; stepping down; Arlene Broussard; ÒcoonassÓ; Cajun shame; French presence in Louisiana; future of the Cajuns;
Interview with Edgar Mouton
founding of CODOFIL; McKithen Ôs support; culture catches on; petition/resolution; negative campaigns; conflicting data about resolution; Raymond Rogers; group effort; CODOSPAN; correspondence with McKithen; Beaujolais; money for French education; different strategies; Cajun French dilemma; Jimmy DomengeauxÕs career; postwar Cajun culture
Moondog Matinee - Tall Tom's Radio Show on WESU
Moondog Matinee - Tall Tom's Radio Show on WESU
***Recording date unknown***
-Unknown song;
-"Don't Wave Goodbye" - Gene Faulk
-"Loneliest Man in the World" - Willie Mallory
-"I'm a Country Boy" - Iry Lee Jackson
-"Bye-bye, Little Angel" - Elton Anderson
-Tall Tom - radio banter
-"Highway Zydeco" - "Bon Temps" St. Marie
-"You're No Longer Mine"
-"Lean on Me" - Willie Mallory
-Tall Tom - radio banter
-"My Little Angel" - The Royal Jokers
-"Do the Best You Can"
Moondog Matinee - Tall Tom's Radio Show on WESU
-Unknown Song - Little Junior Parker
-"It's Alright" - Unknown artist
-"I Love You So" - Elton Anderson - Lanor Records recorded at Cosimo's Studio
-"Love Repairman" - Donald Jacob
-"Little Honey" - Marvin and Johnny
-"Hot Hot Lips" - Ralph Prescott
-"House of Love" - Henry Hall and the Bellaires
-"Move on Down the Line" - unknown artist
-Unknown song - Earl Bostick
Moondog Matinee - Tall Tom's Radio Show on WESU
-Tall Tom - Introduction
-"Do You Remember Me" - Jimmy Donley
-"Gee Baby - Heartbeats
-"Blow Wind, Blow" - Frankie Four and the Heartbeats
-Tall Tom - radio banter
-"The Ending of Love" - The Heartbeats
-"Love Letters" - Huey Smith and the Clowns
-"Baby, You're so Fine"
-"Baby Won't You Turn Me On"
Moondog Matinee - Tall Tom's Radio Show on WESU
-"Baby You're So Fine" - Bobby Day and Willie Dixon
-"Every Once In A While" - Huey Smith and the Clowns
-Tall Tom
-"At the Mardi Gras" - Huey Smith and the Clowns
-"Sack Dress" - Lloyd Price
-"I'm Boss"
-"Come on Home" - The Bellaires
-"Baby You Belong to Me" - Huey Smith and the Clowns
-"Driftin' Charlie"; unknown song
-unknown song
Compilation of Rod Bernard Recordings
Correspondence enclosed with cassette dated January 21, 1991 from Shane Bernard to Larry Benicewicz
-00:00 - "Southland" - The Boogie Kings;
-02:15 - "Lost Love" - The Boogies Kings;
-05:00 - "Jambalaya" - Rod Bernard;
-07:00 - "Linda Gail" - Rod Bernard and the Twisters;
-09:13 - "Little Bitty Mama" - Rod Bernard and the Twisters;
-11:45 - "Set Me Free" - Rod Bernard and the Twisters;
-15:04 - "All Night in Jail" - Rod Bernard and the Twisters;
-17:35 - "A-2-fay" - The Shondells;
-19:53 - "Boo-ray" - The Shondells;
-22:35 - "Dear Buddy" - Rod Bernard;
-25:25 - "Just a Little" - Rod Bernard;
-27:45 - "Who Knows" - Rod Bernard;
-30:14 - "Lonely Hearts Club" - Rod Bernard;
-32:38 - "Little Mama" - Rod Bernard;
-35:05 - Cowboy Stew band rehearsal - Lil Buck Senegal on guitar, C.C. Adcock on guitar, Larry Jolivette on bass, Nat Jolivette on drums - "Baby, What you Want Me To Do," "Good Hearted Woman"
Interview with Rod Bernard
Rod Bernard:
-00:00 - Getting started with Mercury records
-01:00 - "This Should Go On Forever" - Floyd Soileau not being able to keep up with orders
-02:00 - Working with Huey Meaux on distribution of "This Should Go on Forever;"
-04:00 - Management contract with Bill Hall, discussion about Bill's various music business endeavors. Hall Records; Mentions of J.P. Richardson "The Big Bopper,"
-08:40 - Recording for Argo Records
-12:00 - Recording with Johnny and Edgar Winters
-14:40 - Beginning work at KVOL
-16:40 - Cutting "Colinda" for Bill Hall - discussing the successes of the record
-18:30 - Discussing the title "Swamp Pop" - John Broven
-19:15 - The Shondells with Skip Steward and Warren Storm, Carol Rachou, La Louisianne Records
-20:50 - Jimmy Donley
-23:15 - Discussion about drug abuse, burnout and retiring from performing
-25:00 - Discussing his tenures with KVOL and KLFY
-27:00 - "Boogie in Black and White" - album that Rod made with Clifton Chenier; Discussing Clifton's music and style
-30:00 - Returning to part-time public performances and potentially recording again
-37:00 - Awards - One award at Acadian Village, One award from the Times of Acadiana
-39:20 - Arbee Record Lable - Label that Carol Rachou and Rod made together
-42:45 - Going into treatment for substance abuse
-44:00 - Discussing his job at the station
Interview wth Rod Bernard
Rod Bernard:
-00:00 - Background information
-00:50 - Early musical influences, First guitar paid for by picking and shelling pecans
-02:30 - Playing on an amateur radio show - Sponsored by Red Bird Sweet Potatoes
-04:25 - Upgraded to a Harmony brand guitar
-05:40 - Musicians getting their starts very early in life
-05:30 - Playing with the Twisters - Mike Genovese, "This Should Go On Forever"
-07:45 - Bobby Charles influence on Rob
-09:30 - Working at KSLO after school in high school
-11:40 - Guitar Gable and Bernard Jolievette "King Karl" - Recording "This Should Go On Forever" for Excello
-14:30 - Recording "This Should Go On Forever" - released on Jin
-15:30 - J.D. Miller recording songs and sending them to Excello to release what they felt would sell well
-18:50 - Cashbox and Billboard reviews of "This Should Go On Forever"
-19:45 - Chess Records, promotion of the record
-24:45 - Bill Hall - Managing Rod
-27:45 - Recording in Nashville - Cliff Parmon, Boots Randolph, The Jordanairs, Grady Martin
-29:40 - Cutting "Colinda" at Bill Hall's studio, Sold 40,000-50,000 copies
-30:45 - Jack Clement - producer and engineer - adding a rock 'n roll feel to Cajun songs
-31:35 - "Fais do-do"
-32:45 - Rod didn't want to cut "Colinda" - a lady across the street from the studio helped him with the French words
-33:50 - Kids being punished for speaking French at school. Rod never learned French when he was young, popularity of Cajun music over the years
-36:50 - Never wanted to play music for a living
-38:00 - Working at KLFY - Writing and producing tv commercials
-41:08 - Rod's "comeback;" Making a Country "flavored" album
-42:40 - "Sometimes I Talk in my Sleep"
Interview with Floyd Soileau
Floyd Soileau:
-01:45 - Changes in the recording industry
-02:10 - Floyd's relation to Leo Soileau
-02:30 - Speaking about the town of Ville Platte
-03:45 - How Floyd got involved in recording - started out as a disc jockey with KVPI, opening a record store
-04:30 - Cajun records got Floyd into making recordings (1957); First recording was made at a house party
-05:20 - First Swamp Pop recordings - Boogie Kings, Rod Bernard and the Twisters, Tommy McLain
-06:55 - Rockin' Sidney - sent to Floyd from Eddie Shuler
-08:00 - Early label - VeePee, Forming Swallow, Jin, Maison de Soul
-11:30 - Dave Allen - releasing his album
-14:20 - Johnny Winters, Sessions he was involved in at Bill Hall's studio
-17:00 - artists breaking contracts
-18:45 - Dego Rutledge - Bobby Charles recording for him
-20:40 - Jivin' Gene
-22:00 - Floyd's recording studio - Mono and 2 track tape
-25:00 - Donnie Jacobs, Jerry Devillier "Booksack" playing harmonica on the record
-29:30 - Lil Bob and the Lollipops
-34:30 - Rod Bernard
-38:40 - Johnnie Allan
-44:30 - Flat Town Music
Interview with Eddie Shuler
Eddie Shuler:
-01:00 - Talking about his new 24 track console
-01:15 - Love Bug Pellerin
-04:10 - Background information
-07:00 - Managing a record store in Lake Charles
-08:30 - Joining the Hackberry Ramblers as a singer
-11:00 - Chicken wire between musicians and spectators at clubs
-14:00 - Mothers chaperoning daughters at dances
-16:25 - Singing in French but not being able to speak it
-17:00 - Early versions of the Hackberry Ramblers - Edwin Duhon, Luderin Darbonne, Cheek? Widcamp, ?? Gentry, Johnny Fab
-19:00 - Ramblers on KPLC radio, Producing advertisements
-24:00 - Leaving the Ramblers, moving to Houston and trying to start a new band
-25:45 - Moving back to Lake Charles, forming the Reveliers
-26:30 - Forming Goldband Records
-28:15 - Meeting Iry Lejeune - First time Eddie had seen an accordion
-29:25 - Eddie reprimanded for putting Iry on the radio
-31:40 - Producing Iry Lejeune's records - 24 78 rpm records; Reissuing Iry's recordings
-34:45 - Pressing plants Eddie used
-38:00 - Recording process before the studio was built
-40:30 - Boozoo Chavis, Sidney Brown
-42:00 - Zydeco music
-43:00 - Hiring Classie Ballou to play with Boozoo, Discussion about Boozoo's recording sessions
-46:35 - Folkstar Record Label
Interview with Eddie Shuler
Eddie Shuler:
-00:00 - Starting the Folkstar label
-01:00 - How he was separating artists between Goldband and Folkstart labels
-01:40 - Starting Goldband Records
-02:55 - Cookie and the Cupcakes
-04:55 - Phil Philips - "Sea of Love"
-05:45 - George Khoury - Publishing company that George and Eddie started but never used
-06:30 - Publishing companies - Eddie's first publishing company - K-Mar; Fort Knox Publishing, TEK Publishing
-09:45 - Rockabilly Music
-12:15 - Katie Webster - discussing her early session work with Barbara Lynn
-15:00 - Rockin' Sydney - Eddie cut 156 sides with him through the 60's, Sydney changing to playing the accordion
-17:00 - Eddie expanding his studio to 16 track capability
-18:55 - "Juke Boy" Bonner - Hitch hiking to Lake Charles from California "I Can't Hardly Keep From Crying"
-19:40 - Jimmy Wilson
-22:20 - Hop Wilson - Rhythm and Blues played on lapsteel guitar
-24:10 - Guitar Jr. - "Family Rules"
-27:00 - Why many artists were gravitating to recording for Eddie over others
-28:00 - Bill Parker, Miss Peggy, Ole Yvonne
-30:25 - Don Pierce
-40:00 - Respect that Eddie has built - talking about his legacy, Wayne Shuler
-43:50 - Missing out on recordings because he was out of town. Rod Bernard - "This Should Go On Forever" and J.P. Richardson "Chantilly Lace"
Sea of Love