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A.J. LeBlanc Interview
On Tape: A.J. Leblanc interview on K22 Television 10/95 w/Pat Hanchey 9487267 "K22 LIVE" open
***Date unknown***
Pat Henchey and Herman Fuselier;
Talking to A.J. LeBlanc about a new festival. Festivals in St. Landry Parish;
Zydeco Festival, Festival from Washington, Goat Festival;
Friday, October 13th--any candidate running for office can get involved in the village and can join the gumbo cook-off;
Gentleman imitating Earl Long, Dudley LeBlance;
Gombo de Babine before election time;
Native American singing and dancing Sunday;
Group from Honduras Sunday as well as Hadley Castille;
Sell t-shirts and posters;
Music by Joe Doulas until 9 pm;
Different foods from different festivals (Festival of Festivals);
10 am to 9 pm Saturday. 10 am to 6 pm Sunday (music starts around 12:30 pm);
Admission $5 Sat.-Sun. (15 and above), free Friday;
Chase chicken, magician, family envrionment;
Festival at Acadian Village October 13-15, 1995;
Ms. Mildred-- Civil War Ghost Story;
Indian Pow Wow/Acadian Village/Concert on the Bayou
Leroy J. Langlois
404 Holden Ave.
Lafayette, LA 70506
235-4149
INDIAN POW WOW (approximately 36 minutes)
ACADIAN VILLAGE (0:36:00)
CONCERT ON THE BAYOU (0:56:00)
Indian Pow Wow October 2nd/3rd, 1992 at Blackham Coliseum;
Teepees in front of Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church on Johnston Street;
Various Native American arts and crafts, t-shirts, drawings/paintings, dream-catchers, headdresses, necklaces, wood carvings, etc.;
Indian Fried Bread sold for $1.00 by the Coushatta Tribe of LA;
Traditional Native American flute music, drumming and singing, dancing;
Dancing competition with announcement of different categories;
Addressing their creator (prayer led by Bob ?);
Native American Flag Song with is equivalent to their National Anthem. Red Land Singers;
Soldier Dance;
Native Americans surviving their holocaust and healing from it. U.S. Citizenship in 1924. Europeans meeting Natives;
Acadian Village;
Gift Shop--Le Magasin, Cistern, Map of France, inside the gift shop (arts and crafts and various merchandise);
Background music--Les Traces du Boghei, J'ai été au bal hier au soir, Lacassine Special, Kaplan Waltz (Chère Petite), La Porte Arrière/The Back Door, J'ai été au bal hier au soir (repeat);
Houses, turtles on a log in the river, ducks;
Bernard House circa 1800;
Thibodeaux House circa 1820;
Nutria and turtles;
La Chapel du Nouvel Espoir;
LeBlanc House;
Ducks, bridge, pavilion;
Inside Gift Shop;
The Acadian Music Festival (Cajun Heritage and Music Festival) at Acadian Village October 9-11, 1992;
***Same performance as LE3-041***
Acadian Trail Ride Inc. with Jambalaya playing Les Veuves de la Coulée in the background;
Jambalaya Cajun Band:
C'est Fun?;
Chère Alice (La Valse à 'Tit Dom Hanks);
Old Fashioned Two-step;
Dans le Clair de la Lune;
Mon Tour Va Venir Un Jour;
La Valse du Malchanceux;
C'est Fun;
La Belle de la Campagne;
Various food vendors (Knights of Columbus and others);
T'es la mienne pour tout le temps. Terry playing and dancing on the dance floor with his fiddle;
Quand j'étais pauvre;
Indian Village;
La Mazurka;
A.J. LeBlanc introducing himself as pure Acadian and introducing Native Americans who have helped us to bring us where we are today;
Borrowing land from the Indians. Will Rogers' people met the people who came over on the Mayflower;
The Lord's Prayer signed in Choctaw sign language. Mowa-Choctaw Band;
Native Dancing on Sunday;
Dedicating the festival to Dewey Balfa, presentation of award to Nelda;
Dewey's words about his father. We shouldn't cry, because we'll be all together one day. Arrête-pas la musique;
Reggie Matte won 2 years in a row at A.J.'s contest. Paul Daigle also won twice;
Bayou d'Alleman. Wayne Toups around 10 pm;
Amédé Two-Step;
Could I Have This Dance by Anne Murray;
The Cajun Jig;
J'ai Fait Mon Idée;
Crowley Two-step (Jambalaya Hot Step);
KPLC News Segment on Lafayette at Acadian Village
KPLC TV, LAKE CHARLES
LIVE @ 5 ON THE ROAD IN LAFAYETTE
7NEWS @ 6 LIVE FROM LAFAYETTE
AUGUST 6, 1993
Swamp Pop at Acadian Village;
John Bridges--Top stories: tornadoes in Virginia. Politics, President Clinton. Ensuring drivers have insurance in Lake Charles;
Split-oak basket weaving by Gerladine Robertson. Basket uses then and now. Cutting down White, Red, and Post Oak trees;
Charlie Goulas (blacksmith apprentice) teaching how to make square nails. More farm tools like axes, hoes;
Mild Steel 2,600 degrees by the color, cooling it off, making anything he needs;
Square nail, steel was valuable and hard to come by. Apprentice young boys in the winter;
Part of the Cajun Heritage, knowledge from old people;
Warren Storm singing to commercial;
Commercial Break;
Weather forecast (10:28);
1755-Le Grand Dérangement. Dan Guillot (Lafayette Clerk of Courts) gives the history of Vermilionville(1844)/Lafayette (1884);
Collection of historical pictures of Lafayette--Images de Lafayette (book);
Lafayette growing until it takes up the entire parish;
Commercial Break;
Butchering pigs, cooking cracklins with Rocky Sonnier from Breaux Bridge. Cooking a pig-skin football (17:08);
Seasoning cracklins served with boudin, hog-head cheese, crackers, and a beer;
Pork Fricassee, Barbecue Chicken dinner on Sundays, Fried Turkeys, Poboys, Beignets and coffee (bed and breakfast on the bayou);
Commercial Break;
Lafayette parish the fastest growing parish in the state, economics (22:34);
Acadiana Mall and 104 retail stores;
Oil Industry and oil bust in the 1980s. Diversified into medical care (5 hospitals), USL, and retail stores;
Stock Market Report;
Flip, Flop, and Fly;
Commercial Break;
James Smith--Shrimp Season, Teen Dance at the Lake Charles Civic Center (28:06);
Bobby Scott and LA.Vintage with special guest Warren Storm;
What is Swamp Pop music? Mix of blues and rock and roll, name from England. Antoine 'Fats' Domino. Drums, horns;
My Girl;
Bayou Alleman, Acadian Village;
Commercial Break;
News: Shrimp season--Ken Savoie, Teen Dance at the Lake Charles Civic Center with extra security to handle a larger crowd, New Federal Courthouse in Lake Charles on Broad Street, KPLC Kids--Shalonda (32:15);
Midnight Playboys Special/Lafayette Breakdown--possibly Joe Douglas and the American Cajun Band;
Commercial Break;
Tee Paul Duhon, "The Bone Man," has been playing for about 52-53 years. He learned from an old Black man (38:28);
Thibodeaux House. A.J. LeBlanc talking about girls sleeping in the house and boys sleeping in the attic;
Lafayette Association for Retarted Citizens like Bob and Keith;
Admission to Acadian Village;
Vermilionville (Merlin Fontenot and others playing music in the Performance Center). Visitor center (LCVC) opened in May of 1992;
Bus tour of Lafayette;
Food and music;
Commercial Break;
Weather forecast (46:01);
Commercial Break;
Tom Woodard--Highschool football. District 3-5A new. Speaking to head coaches (52:04);
Commercial Break;
Allen Tumey--Randol's Cajun Restaurant on Kaliste Saloom (Frank Randol) (58:02);
Eating crabs (boiled and softshell), herb garden, shipping food;
Dancing (Jambalaya Cajun Band). Family atmosphere;
Randol's is the Cajun McDonald's;
Wedding at Acadian Village;
Swamp Pop song by Bobby Scott and LA. Vintage with special guest Warren Storm;
Rendez-Vous: Domengeaux Interview
Rendez-Vous - Domengeaux Interview LA013;
Audiovisual Bureau/Consulate of France - 1340 Poydras Street, Suite 1710 - New Orleans, LA 70112;
Interview avec James Domengeaux, fondateur et président du CODOFIL, le Conseil pour le Développement du Français en Louisiane. 18:45;
Vicki ?;
CODOFIL founded in 1968;
Mr. Domengeaux is not necessarily in love with the French language because he cannot read or write it and never studied it. But he sees the possibilities and advantages that French education could give us;
Article in Times Picayune said the U.S. is lacking people who know foreign language skills;
Second languages in the U.S.;
At first, the U.S. wanted to overcome the melting pot it was becoming and become uniform in the language that it spoke. Now, people are differentiating and accepting cultural differences;
His family has been here in Louisiana for 300 years. Grew up speaking both English and French and he believes this to be the best way to learn a language, especially when one is young;
It's easy. We might not speak French as well, but everyone understands one another;
04:49 Mr. Domengeaux receiving credit/privilege from France, Canada, Belgium, etc. for what he did for French in Louisiana;
Going to numerous francophone countries and numerous tourists coming here, there's no trouble communicating with them whatsoever;
Little red button - les gens d'honneur de France;
French poll of what three things they desire most. Women were first, wine was second, and people of honor were third;
Being lucky to be born in Louisiana;
Writer Yves Berger writes for Le Monde in France and says Louisiana is the prettiest place in the world;
Mr. Domengeaux was a congressman before getting involved with French (1941-1949);
Playing poker with government officials;
Truman was the Senator of Missouri at that time (before he was Vice President). They'd play poker every Saturday night and he was very lucky. After he became President, Mr. Domengeaux said he ran the government just like he played poker. He'd take chances and luck out;
He has been an attorney in Lafayette for over 50 years and works with Bob Wright;
Commodities Exchange in New Orleans started with Bob Wright started about 5 years ago;
Not his influence, but it was something that was there and he took advantage of it;
CODOFIL on television/radio portrays the Cajuns as people who lives in the swamps with big webbed feet and live with alligators;
09:59 Lafayette is the home base for CODOFIL? Trying to have branches in Shreveport and New Orleans;
Opened New Orleans branch yesterday;
Mr. Breaux (John Breaux?), Jimmy Fitzmorris' assistant;
Chapters in East and West Banks and 10th Ward, LaFourche Parish chapter (Galliano, Golden Meadow, no more French from Lock Port to Grand Isle);
What does CODOFIL do exactly? Use/promote/develop French everywhere possible for educative, economic, and touristic benefits;
Brought pride back to degraded/ignorant/poor language;
Competitive languages;
Anglo-Saxon Protestants support this movement;
Cosmopolitan atmosphere;
Tourism increased over 33% due to French activity - Bob LeBlanc;
Publicity that could not have been bought;
France knows CODOFIL better than President Carter;
14:40 People in Louisiana don't realize how important French in Louisiana is;
No desire to force everyone to speak French;
More beneficial form bilingual Americans;
Made mistakes because communication wasn't there. Vietnam War and French President Charles De Gaulle, Iranian language and crisis;
RadioFrance. French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac? American Ambassador to France coudn't speak any French. Mr. Domengeaux the American ambassador to tell President Ford that it was a crime to send someone to represent the United States who couldn't speak French;
Ambassador Firestone in Belgium couldn't speak French either;
Let's Be Proud To Speak French/Soyons Fiers De Parler Français;
Speak French, It's Money In The Pocket/Parlez Français, C'est De L'argent En Poche;
En Français: De l'école à la maison
EF 201 LA004
De l'école à la maison
On discute les gens qui parlent le francais dans...et les méthodes pour enseigner le francais? aux enfants. Aussi, interview avec? Père Donald Hebert qui fait des recherches généalogique. 29:45
*Barcode *4895* over label, some words not legible*
Audiovisual Bureau/Consulate of France - 1340 Poydras Street, Suite 1710 - New Orleans, LA 70112
French as a second language in elementary schools;
Shreveport, in Caddo parish--Arthur Circle Elementary School. Mme. Genevieve Yanker? Les enfants chantent et répondent au quéstion "qu'est-ce que c'est?";
Kids naming various objects in French;
Breaux Bridge Elementary in St. Martin Parish. Mme. Savanna Nora. Plus que 80% des gens qui parlent français dans la paroisse;
1er programme bilingue en 1970. Français comme seconde langue en 1971;
Amanda LaFleur--resource teacher. Kids naming various global geographies;
Grand Lake Elementary in Cameron Parish. Kids naming various objects and verbs in French;
Singing 'Lâche-pas la patate' by Jimmy C. Newman while the kids make their snakes;
Adam Conner--in charge of the development of French in Cameron parish. Before CODOFIL in certain schools with 1st graders then older kids;
3 écoles avec 3 foreign associate teachers la première année de CODODIL, 1st-6th grades;
This year is the first year of having CODOFIL in all 6 Cameron Parish schools;
French as an elective in high school. The kids are interested and the community supports it;
40% of kids come from families that speak Cajun French. The language, culture, and heritage of the Cajuns;
Père Donald Hébert--la généaalogie des familles Acadiens;
Né à Lafayette, studied in the seminary from 1956-1968, appointed to St. Anthony's in Eunice in 1970;
Starting research in 1972 of all 13 civil parishes in 26 volumes of Southwest Louisiana Records;
3/4 grandparents (Hébert, Mire, Léger) Acadians and1/4 English (Credeur--Coruthers);
Mire--Lemire;
Changer les noms parce que les prêtres ne savaient comment épeler des noms. Des prêtres espagnols;
Tracing family back to 1545;
Fontenot--famille française;
Retracer les Hébert;
Bona Arceneaux--6 volumes des Acadiens au Canada;
Les livres wont ensembles;
Start with dates that are known and using the books to trace your roots;
Leaving France for work, fishing in Canada. 1755, English deported Acadians to Louisiana;
History and Genealogy go together. A lot of Acadians went to England, Amercian Colonies. Returned to France in 1763 for the Treaty of Paris. 8 boats came to Louisiana with almost 2,000 Acadians (second voyage);
Hebert et Bourque. Les vieilles églises en France;
Not much as changed in 300 years. Big love of family, Catholicism, and the French language among Cajuns/Acadians;
Start at the library and learn how to do genealogy;
Contracts, marriages, baptismal, etc.;
LPB--series of films by Mr. Bona Arceneaux;
Un Acadien de Québec qui ne s'est pas fait déporté;
20-25 voyages en Louisiane, un politicien, 26 émission TV des Acadiens/leur généalogie;
French presentations. People in Louisiana should be able to follow because we know the history so well;
Giving history of each Acadian family;
Acadian grandparents;
Histoire et Généalogie des Acadians--6 volumes;
Father Hebert's books. 2nd series called South Louisiana Records;
Boudreaux, Thibodeaux, Breaux, Trahan, Robichaux, etc.;
October 4th it will air on LPB;
1955 of work, +25 yeas Mr. Arceneaux's work;
Louisiana Hall of Fame Tape 3 of 5
Recorded by:
Creative Video Service, Inc.
"A Production Company"
120 Representative Row
Lafayette, Louisiana
318-234-EDIT
LOUISIANA HALL OF FAME
Sunday, April 14, 1996
Tape 3 of 5
Inducting Bobby Kimball and Big Luther Kent with a Performance by The Deuce of Hearts (Take My Hand);
S.S. Fools, signing with CBS records, singing with various artists;
Toto named after Dorthy's dog, Wizard of Oz;
Grammy nominations;
Rosanna;
Bobby Kimball's thank you speech;
Big Luther Kent's various recordings and performances;
Ned Theall of The Boogie Kings accepting Kent's award because he has health problems;
The Deuce of Hearts (Gary and Travis Thibodeaux) accompanied by three Boogie King members (Ned Theall, John Smith, and Willie T):
Oh What A Night;
Time and Time Again;
I'm In Love Again by Antoine 'Fats' Domino;
Take My Hand--song of the year;
Ma belle, ma belle;
I Should Have Never Fell in Love;
I Told My Pillow by Clarence 'Frogman' Henry;
Ooh La La;
Best Day of Your Life;
Jessie Leger 1989
Jessie Leger & the Jeff Davis Ramblers 1989;
VFW Hall in Jennings? Post 2130;
Band Intro by Antoine « A.J. » LeBlanc;
Honoring the music of Lawrence Walker;
Jessie Leger – Accordion;
Atlas Frugé – Steel Guitar
Ralph Janisse – Fiddle
Edmond Guidry – Drums;
Ivy Laborde? – Rhythm Guitar;
Tous les deux pour la même/Hollybeach Waltz/Faire l’amour dans les rangs de coton/J’ai une mouche dans mon couche-couche;
Johnny Can’t Dance;
Same audio as LE3.023
Cajun Roots;
Je Peux Pas T'oublier;
Midnight Playboy Special/Lafayette Breakdown;
Fool's Waltz;
Sonny making a roux;
Cajun from Church Point;
Band Intro:
Allen Simon? - Emcee;
Woodrow 'Willie' Daigle - Triangle;
Yves Thibodeaux - Fiddles;
Andrew Jagneaux - Accordion;
Jim Gaspard - Rhythm Guitar/Vocals;
David Daigle - Drums/Vocals;
Theme Song (Fi Fi Poncho) and reprise;
Bayou Teche Waltz;
Meat Jambalaya cooking demonstration;
Hathaway Two Step ('The Cajun Freeze');
Tolam Waltz;
Thelma Daigle tells a joke about her Nonc Clébert from Crowley and I-10;
Les Flammes d'Enfer;
La Valse d'Héritage;
Marksville Two Step;
Band Intro (see above);
Fi Fi Poncho;
Band takes a 10-min. break;
Fi Fi Poncho;
Crawfish étoufée cooking demonstration;
Reno Waltz;
Creole Stomp;
Le Hack à Moreau/Ton 'Tit Coeur est Barré (Turn to La Valse de Grand Chemin);
Cajuns' Groundhog Day;
Les Zydeco Sont Pas Salés;
Les Traces du Boghei/Mother's Day Waltz (Wayne Toups)/La Dernière Fois;
The Back Door;
Les 'Tits Yeux Noirs;
Band Intro (see above);
Theme Song (Fi Fi Poncho);
Les Cadiens de la Paroisse Vermillon
Gérard Sellers, Réalisateur et Metteur-en-scène
8215 Brich Street
New Orleans, LA 70118
TEL: (504)861-7878
***Date Unknown***1994
See Credits for more information
Acadians first arrived in 1764. 1790-Most People claiming Acadian Descent than in any other country. What will happen to our culture?;
Bon Temp Train on KROF Abbeville. D.L. Menard's Bachelor's Life;
Acadian Langauge;
1604-First immigrants of France arrived in Acadia, 394 years
150 years raising families, worked their farms, trapped. Same things Cajuns of Vermilion parish were doing;
Coming to the New World and naming new things;
Separating Acadian families into American Colonies;
Vermilion Parish coastline very similar to Acadian coastline. Living on the water;
Abbéville 1844 crée par Père Antoine Désiré Mégret, un missionaire de Vermilionville (Lafayette). Acheter de la terre à Pont Perry. Il y avait juste des Américains (ne parlaient pas français et n'étaient pas catholique), pas de cadiens. Ils voulaient just lui vendre de la terre basse. Acheter de Mr. LeBlanc pour l'église, la maison de court, et les rues;
Un des plus gros assemblement des Acadiens;
Plus chaud, des moustiques, etc. Faire récolte, élever des bêtes;
Monter dans un arbre/leur cheval pour voir s'ils étaient partis dans la bonne direction. Venir de Cameron, frapper la Pecanière;
Les moustiques dans les mèches, étouffer les vaches;
Aider les voisins travailler les vaches dans les mèches;
Used to, 6 am to 5-6 pm. Now you can get back for 2 pm with the new roads. Bridge now, no need for a barge anymore;
Putting horses on the barge, pushing cattle about 25 miles;
Costs lest per acre in the marsh because of the insects. The grass doesn't die during the winter, don't need to plant rye grass/hay;
2 horses on a barge and go to the Western side of the marsh, 2 on Eastern side to push them south to the beach, join the rest of the horses;
Arriving at the pipeline. 6-8 miles of travel;
Carrying calves on horses;
40-50 horses on the barge;
Putting calves on barges;
Separating cattle with calves and cattle without. 47-50 head of cattle in a field;
Tagging cattle after calves and cos are reunited, medicating them;
Teaching kids what was done in the past. Learning what to do;
La Dernière Valse par Lionel Leleux;
Crawfishing. 200-300 acres that are farmed. Rotating fields;
Crawfish boil;
Maxie Broussard visiting with the Trahans. Rice and Crawfish farmers throughout generations;
2,600 acres of rice. 700 heads of cattle. Planting rice in March, crawfishing in November, restock rice in May/June annually to be sure there's a crop;
Takes a lot of water for both, deep wells and canal drains connected to the intracoastal canal;
Differences in planting rice then and now. Easier to plant/cut rice nowadays in an air-conditioned combine;
Crawfishing by foot for two days, then he stopped because it was too hard;
Crawfish 'Combine.' Voir Jim Olivier avant qu'il va pêcher;
Robert Duval et Maxie Hebert--his movie. 18-wheeler hauling crops in winter. Sinking a truck and borrowing a neighbor's;
Typical of Cajuns to find where they're related it at all;
D.L. Menard playing for a school with Leo Abshire on fiddle;
D.L. had an uncle that had a Cajun band. They had a practice one night and he fell in love with the guitar. Montgomery Ward Catalog to buy an $11 guitar that was shipped by mail. He showed D.L. the rhythm to a two-step and a waltz;
1962-La Porte d'en Arrière/The Back Door. The band thought it was alright just by himself. Je peux pas t'oublier was recorded first, then The Back Door;
This'll be the hit, Mr. Badeaux started a little bit faster than it was supposed to be. Recording Wednesday, Saturday night at the Jolly Rogers Club between New Iberia and St. Martinville and singing that song 7 times;
Playing festivals, schools. Kids appreciate Cajun music more and more lately because kids couldn't go into clubs. Now in restaurants;
1974-Tour with Lionel Leleux and Marc Savoy in South America. State Department Tour because of The Back Door;
D.L. started to hate the song because that's all he would sing;
Lionel Leleux making fiddles. Interested because it's in the blood;
His father had a fiddle. Lionel was one of four. Lionel teethed on a fiddle;
1924 before Lionel bought a fiddle for $4.50 (50 cents a week). Playing songs after a week;
Aller chez son grandpère, son père se fâchait en voyant ça. He was 75 years old when she told him that;
Lionel older than D.L., both enjoy music;
Lionel fixing and building fiddles. D.L. building chairs. Cajuns were primarily farmers;
Tradition of not buying things at the store, but making them;
Always thought less of themselves for speaking French. Maybe better than monolingual anglophones;
Making quilts since 1990 at Ms. Maryland Morvant's place, finding a pass-time. Every Tuesday. Giving quilts to convents, kids with AIDS, for themselves;
Selling quilts in Europe, California. Making money for convents/churches of Abbeville and Gueydan;
Buying materials using the money made from selling prior quilts;
32 hours à travers 6 semaines. Pull names to make quilts for 22 mothers;
Americans in charge of businesses. English was the language of the U.S., not French;
Americans were the same type of people that deported the Acadians from Canada. Most kids went to school without knowing English. Punishing kids for speaking French at school;
D.L. learning English in school;
Grandparents and parents didn't speak a lot of English. Father went in the Navy at 18 years old;
Starting school with a tutor in first grade;
Cajun French vs. Québec/Canada/France. Importing French and not being able to speak with their families;
Cajun French can't last more than another 30-40 years because kids don't speak French;
People didn't want their kids to speak French because they thought they were less than;
Cassettes and Video tapes will be the only place we'll hear Cajun French in 10 years if it's not taught in schools;
Cajun music tells the Acadian story. We make the instruments and we play the music;
Young musicians playing other types of music with Cajun instruments;
Youth learning French via the music;
Cajun music more popular than rock and roll;
Camey Doucet says kids are only learning French to sing the words of songs. They don't speak it. Wayne Toups and Roddie Romero. Must be up-tempo for young people;
1755-Le Grand Dérangement, Joseph 'Beausoleil' Broussard;
1925-1931, Cajuns went to Texas to work in the oil fields. Cajuns developing boats and energy to work on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico;
Oil in Arab countries, Cajuns went to develop that. Oil in the North Sea;
Not rare to find a farmer with a few head of cattle, flood fields to crawfish, duck hunting and opening blinds to everyone;
Fishing, crabbing, shrimping, the parish is so diversified;
Acadians like to have so much fun, that we'll remember how much fun they had;
Cajun culture excites tourists. Cajuns live to eat;
Camey Doucet announcing songs/announcing weather forecast in French;
La Porte d'en Arrière/The Back Door with various scenes around Vermilion Parish;
Our trip to "Acadiana", Louisiana in March of 1998
Recorded by:
Historic Collections by MAR-JEN PHOTO & PHODEO
Custom Photo Design
Photo Transfer to Video
"Leave a legacy to your family"
9 Michaud Avenue, Lewiston, ME 04240
207-782-3951
Our trip to "Acadiana", Louisiana in March of 1998.
Thank you from Jennie Byram, Frances Levasseur, and Marjie Lachance
***See attached letter (LE3-040)***
Acadian Village in Lafayette, Louisiana;
Speaking French just like in Acadia;
Different merchandise in the gift shop. Talking about the weather in March;
Visiting the houses in the village. Kristi Guillory singing Bayou Pon Pon;
La maison Bernard--le plus ancien 1800 avec l'addition en 1840;
Religious items;
Musical items: records, instruments;
Le garçonier (boys slept in the attick, girls slept in the house);
Thibodeaux House--1820;
Different technologies in the house, kitchen?;
Goats, Cistern, Chickens, Geese, La Chapelle de Nouvel Espoir;
LeBlanc House--1821;
Speaking with A.J. LeBlanc. Shared family names between Cajuns and Acadians;
A.J.'s trip to Canada last August. Seeing the resemblance and hearing the same stories;
Saving Louisiana's coast. Getting 10 Acadians to come and telling them they get half of all the land they recycle. Louisiana would be in South America;
Fighting to keep the French language;
Making Cajuns believe speaking French made them basse-classe. Getting paid twice as much for being bilingual;
Dudley LeBlanc--Hadacol. 1930-1935, people didn't take vitamins. 18% alcohol in Hadacol. Selling his medicine all over the country except in the North (same formula as Geritol);
Using Hadacol box tops to go see shows with Minnie Pearl, Dorothy Lamour, Hanks Williams Sr., all the big actors;
Groucho Marx's program;
Dudley's Sunday afternoon radio show/newscast. People had stopped going to mass to listen to Dudley. Bishop asked him to change it to 12:30 pm;
People talking about how well Hadacol worked. Lady had rheumatism, she hurt everywhere. 3 bottles a week was helping. Now taking 5+ a week. She no longer worries about who she sleeps with;
Dudley visiting the pope in Rome, Italy. People knew Cousin Dud, but not the guy with the little hat (the pope);
Visiting the U.S. President. Traveling with girls;
Cajun Acadian Flag;
La maison St. Jean--Juillet 1881 le premier congrès. La rue de St. Jean;
Les Billeaud;
Castille--espagnol;
St. John House donated by Mr. & Mrs. Joe Joseph;
Guineas and house signs;
Geese swimming;
Different houses;
Farming tools and Blacksmith shop;
Inside the St. John House;
Blacksmith shop, buggies, wagons, plows;
Pavilion and houses;
Billeaud House--Weaving looms, spinning wheels, brown and white cotton;
La Chapelle de Nouvel Espoir. Pews all replicas of the first pew;
All doors half-doors;
Castille House circa 1860 and cistern behind;
House where the dentist was;
Dr. William Lesley of Illinois (1848-1928) practicing in 1875 Carencro for 53 years;
First doctor to practice in Lafayette parish;
Pepper harvester;
House with arts and crafts;
Le magasin--country store;
Various pictures to Doug Kershaw's 'Cajun Baby' and Dixieland Jazz;
Mississippi Valley Museum;
History of Acadian Village narrated in French: Le Magasin Général, La Maison Aurélie Bernard, La Maison Thibodeaux, La Maison LeBlanc, La Maison Saint-Jean (schoolhouse), La Forge, La Maison Billeaud, La Chapelle du Nouvel Espoir, La Maison Castille, Le Cabinet du Medecin, La Maison du Docteur Salles, T' Frère's House Bed and Breakfast, Alida's Bed and Breakfast;
Jean Lafitte Cultural Center and Vermilionville in Lafayette. La Maison Acadienne, different houses around Vermilionville, Bayou Vermilion River;
Evangeline Oak in St. Martinville;
Thanking A.J. for his hopitality;
Cajun Heritage and Music Festival 1992 Part I
Three little Indian girls. Native American Village/Camp;
Buggy in the Blacksmith Shop at Acadian Village;
Stream. Campers in the background;
Bridge and old homes;
Blacksmith Shop;
Wagon, wooden horses;
Birdhouse (wood duck box). Keep squirrels from getting to them;
Rabbits, guineas, chickens, ducks. Ducklings;
Jack-mule/donkey;
Goats;
Turtles on a log;
Pageant queen (Sharice?);
Norene Porter. Cajun Heritage and Music Festival Queen contestants;
Presentation of awards, runners-up. Lauren Lagrive? new queen;
Horse-drawn wagons with country music playing on the radio (trail ride);
Jambalaya Cajun Band;
Les Veuves de la Coulée;
Chère Alice (La Valse à 'Tit Dom Hanks);
Old-Fashioned Two-step;
T'es la mienne pour tout le temps. Terry playing and dancing on the dance floor with his fiddle;
Quand j'étais pauvre;
La Mazurka;
Borrowing land from the Indians. Will Rogers' people met the people who came over on the Mayflower;
The Lord's Prayer signed in Choctaw sign language. Mowa-Choctaw Band;
Native Dancing on Sunday;
Dedicating the festival to Dewey Balfa, presentation of award to Nelda;
Dewey's words about his father. We shouldn't cry, because we'll be all together one day. Arrête-pas la musique;
Reggie Matte won 2 years in a row at A.J.'s contest. Paul Daigle also won twice;
Bayou d'Alleman. Wayne Toups around 10 pm;
Amédé Two-Step;
J'ai Fait Mon Idée;
Crowley Two-step (Jambalaya Hot Step);
Evangeline Special/Saturday Night Special;
J’ai une mouche dans mon couche-couche/Tous les deux pour la même/Hollybeach Waltz/Faire l’amour dans les rangs de coton;
Perrodin Two-Step;
Les ‘Tits Yeux Noirs;
Midnight Playboys Special/Lafayette Breakdown;
Joe Douglas & the All-American Cajun Band;
Les Zydeco Sont Pas Salés;
La Valse d’Héritage;
Mamou Two Step;
Les Traces du Boghei;
Down at the Twist and Shout?;
Un Autre Soir Ennyuant;
‘Tit Galop Pour La Pointe Aux Pins;
Marksville Two Step;
Mathilda;
Cajun Stripper/Bosco Stomp;
Good Time, Hard Loving Cajun Man?;
Jambalaya/Grand Texas/L’Anse Couche Couche;
Cajun Heritage and Music Festival 1992 Part II
October 9, 1992;
Wayne Toups:
Mamou Two-step;
Sugar Bee;
Mathilda;
Evangeline/Saturday Night Special;
Mardi Gras in New Orleans;
October 10, 1992;
Ducks at Acadian Village;
Unknown band:
Beau Thomas--fiddle;
Rodney? Miller--Steel Guitar;
Amédé Two-step;
Les Flammes d'Enfer;
J'ai fait une grosse erreur;
Bosco Stomp/Cajun Stripper;
Untitled Two-step (maybe one of Belton Richard's?)
Indian Village/Camp;
Guy playing piano accordion;
E Buffalo Ding Post. Ride the pony;
Plowing the field with a horse-drawn plow (Zydeco Flammes d'Enfer in background);
Kids Zydeco dancing;
Beau Jocque?:
Grand Marais Two-step? (Midland Two-step/Country Playboys Special);
Unknown band:
Jongle à moi;
Quand j'étais pauvre;
Don't mess with my toot toot with kids dancing;
KLFY/Lafayette Waltz?;
La Porte d'en Arrière/The Back Door;
Lacassine Special;
Shamrock Two-step (La Poussière--Ray Landry);
Amédé Two-step with kids sitting in with the band;
Hey Maman, Hey Papa (Zydeco Waltz--La Valse à Tante Nana?);
Hathaway Two-step (The Cajun Freeze) with an untitled one-step--line dance;
Girl sings Chère Bassette;
50 piastres, mes vieux culottes, et mon pick-up truck (Mermentau Waltz/99 year waltz as a two-step);
Si aisé pour aimer/So easy to love;
Lafayette Two-step/Allons à Lafayette?;
Chère Tout Tout;
'Tit Galop Pour Mamou (similar to The Games People Play);
Just Like a Cajun--Jim Olivier;
Miss Ann Goodly and the Zydeco Brothers:
Untitled Rock n Roll Two-step;
Sugar Daddy;
Zydeco Cha-cha?;
Don't Let the Green Grass Fool Ya;
Jolie Blonde (Ma Blonde est Partie/La Fille de la Veuve/La Valse de Gueydan/La Valse de Jolly Rogers/La Valse de Couillon);
I'm going to dog hill;
Jambalaya/Grand Texas/Alons Kooche-kooche;
Ms. Ann Special;
Hard Times--Blues/Swamp Pop;
Untitled Zydeco Two-step;
La Valse à Tante Nana?;
Zydeco Boogaloo;
Goin' to Mamou?;
Zydeco Stomp?. Band Intro;
Morning programming for KATC-TV3;
Hotel Acadiana Sales Presentation
Hotel Acadiana;
Visit Acadian Village and Vermilionville;
Plantation Homes;
Cajun Dome;
Heymann Performing Arts Center;
St. John's Cathedral and +450 year-old oak tree;
Tour groups. Al E. Gator;
Columbian Coffee;
Pool;
Ballroom;
Meetings;
Swimming/whirpools;
Gym;
Café Raintree;
Scandal's plays '60-'80s top hits;
Lagniappe;
Address and contact information;
Cajun Renaissance Man: Dudley J. LeBlanc
***Date Unknown***1996
Music composed by Sam Broussard;
See credits for more information;
Hadacol, Groucho Marx. Dudley LeBlacn was a senator of Louisiana;
1944-selling from his barn. 1951-all-time high of $25 million in sales;
Last of the great American patent medicines;
Selling women's medicines;
Check from the postman;
Sold himself out of a job by telling people to buy 2-3 years of supply. Not as much with tobacco;
Seeing a girl get off the train, meeting Evelyn, his wife;
Growing family of 6;
Searching new products to add to his line;
Bedridden and ready to try a traiteur (prayer and string), doctor gave him a shot. Getting vitamins via shots;
Preparing Hadacol in his barn. Forming the LeBlanc corporation;
Fantastic results from taking Hadacol. Miracle drug. Alcohol and Vitamin A or B;
12% Alcohol in Hadacol. Selling in liquor stores, more of a drink than medicine;
Hadacol Parties among teenagers;
If it doesn't smell good or taste good, it's got to be good for you;
Putting profits back in as advertising;
Barn and barrel to automated bottle factory. A bottle a second;
Hadacol coins. Hadacol Boogie;
100 18-wheeler Hadacol trucks delivering to 11 states in the South;
1950-nation-wide advertising. 1.5 million radio stations. 3-4 ads in the newspaper;
Outsold Bayer aspirin, as popular as Disco. He spent more time than Coca-cola did on promotion;
Radio contests giving away Hadacol;
Hadaol Club, Captain Hadacol for kids;
Taxes;
Traveling medicine shows high-tech and modern. Medieval tradition. Pulling a snake from a bottle. Actors, musicians, anything to draw a crowd;
1950-led caravan of celebrities;
2 Hadacol box tops to see show, counterfeit box tops;
Growing 5 feet after a bottle of Hadacol;
Hadacol jokes;
Plugging Hadacol in National spotlight;
1951-train "Hadacol Special" to middle America;
Playing Sugar Bowl and Cotton Bowl;
Sponsoring Hank Williams Sr., Minnie Pearl, Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys;
Jambalaya from a caravan;
Sex sells. Ms. Hadacol contest;
Lucille Ball, Marx Bros., hired comedians. Elvis Presley, Bob Hope;
Fireworks after every show. Memory that would last a lifetime;
1951-sold Hadacol for $8 million to finance his campaign for Governor of Louisiana. Wanted to be first Cajun governor since Reconstruction;
Hiring big jazz bands and making 112 speeches (only 2 in English);
Northern Protestants controlled the government. French Catholic a liability, demarcation;
Acadians, the Great Deportation;
Born August 16, 1894 in LeBlanc, LA. Poor, pure LeBlanc;
Break out of farming, hunting, and fishing;
A little smarter than the rest of his class. Enroll after 8th grade at university. Graduated college (SLI) at 17 years old;
Oil Broker after break-up of Standard Oil. Average income only a few hundred dollars a year;
Huey Long was selling artificial cooking oil. Dudley selling shoes. Rented a carriage together because they covered rural Louisiana and didn't compete with one another;
WWI-Translating for English-speaking Americans;
Better roads. 1920 race, State Representative from Vermilion Parish. Aid people;
Buggy Tax refund bill. Automobile taxes illegally collected on horse and buggies;
Thibodeaux Benevolent Association (TBA);
Regulation of railraods;
Bitter rivalry between LeBlanc and Long with same goals;
Destroy Dudley LeBlanc's business. Not allowing TBA's insurance in Louisiana, selling it in Texas;
Running for governor in 1932 against O.K. Allen;
Rigging the election, stealing it from Dudley by exchanging ballot boxes. Some boxes found floating in rivers;
Old Age Pension, Unemployment insurance, public education learned from French History;
Traced ancestry to French monarchy;
New Deal was part of his idea that Long took and vibrated all the way to Washington;
Sunday Radio Program in French. Cousin Dud;
Gospel according to Dudley LeBlanc, everyone believed everything he said;
Cousin Dud part of young Cajuns' upbringing;
Like a soap opera, listening to his show continuously;
Father of Old Age Pension during Earl K. Long administration;
Louisiana segregationist, prevented Blacks and Cajuns from voting;
You Are My Sunshine--Jimmie Davis, ran for a second time in 1959;
Paving roads;
Prominent Democrats coming to Louisiana, promoting rice, agriculture, Cajun people;
Campaign of 1963. McKeithen carrying Vermilion parish;
Dudley's last race against James Fontenot. His cars without opponent's bumper sticker;
Take care of the Cajun people, my people;
Acadian Renaissance;
Docile, quiet people. It's ok to take a stand. Assertion into business sector;
Francophones and Anglophones didn't mix;
Not speaking French with a monolingual Anglophone around;
Punished for speaking French in schools, knelt on corn, dunce cap, beat them, write lines, lock them up in a room;
1755-René LeBlanc led the Acadians when they were driven out of Nova Scotia;
The Story of Evangeline and the Deportation of Acadians as criminals by English Crown;
Destroy the ethnic group, separating families, deported in ships designed for cattle;
Genocide of the Acadians;
3 books regarding the history of the Acadians;
Researching Acadian documents in various archives;
Acadian Miracle;
Pride in speaking French;
Represented the Cajun in the early part of the 20th century;
Founding of CODOFIL;
Linking the Acadian provinces in Louisiana and Acadia;
Bringing students to Nova Scotia;
Bicentennial of Acadian Deportation;
Congrès Mondial Acadien of 1994;
Proud to be Cajun. Music, Food, Art;
No other culture like this;
Being Cajun a state of mind;
Cousin Dud put Cajuns on the map, not Justin Wilson;
Acadian activist;
Everyone in Louisiana knows Dudley;
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Dennis McGee, Sadie Courville, D. L. MenardLee Manual, Ally Young, D. L. Menard, Barry AnceletCanray Fontenot, Bois Sec Ardoin, Morris Ardoin
Rendez-vous des Cajuns; Performances by The Hackberry Ramblers; Ann Savoy; Mayor Curtis Joubert
The Hackberry Ramblers:
'Ragtime Annie'
'Redwing'
'Beaumont Rag'
Interview with Luderin Darbonne by Barry Ancelet:
Floyd Soileau, Mayor of Bayou Pon Pon
The Hackberry Ramblers:
Hackberry Ramblers Theme Song
'Corrina, Corrina'
'Ma chère belle'
'Queue de tortue'
'Cousin Doug'
'Hadacol Skit'
Aldus Roger and the Lafayette Playboys:
'Scott Playboys' Special'
'La valse de 'tit Maurice'
'Jeunes gens de la campagne'
'Louisiana Waltz'
'Lacassine Special' (with the Hackberry Ramblers)
'Jolie blonde'
'Chère tout tout'
Bal de Maison; Bal de Noces; Performances by Ann Savoy;
Introductions
Ann Savoy
Curtis Joubert
Narration, enactment concerning Les Bals des Noces
Dennis McGee and Sady Courville:
(10:48) - La valse de Kathleen
-Interview with Dennis McGee and Sady Courville
-Adieu Rosa
-Courville Reel
(20:00) - Talking about Old time house dances - Amede Ardoin, Dennis McGee, Joe Falcon
(21:50) - Interview with Sady Courville
-Band plays a waltz for dancers
(26:00) - Interview with Odile Falcon
-Food sold at dances
(27:00) - J'ai étais au bal
-Allons à Lafayette
(33:40) - Solange Falcon - Thoughts about playing with Joe Falcon and Cleoma Breaux
(34:50) - Brief Interview with Octa Clark
(37:30) - Interview with Pierre Daigle - talking about other activities going on at dances
Dennis McGee, Sady Courville, Octa Clark and Preston Manuel:
(39:00) - Home Sweet Home
(40:45) - Intermission
(43:18) - Les bals de noces
-Jumping the broomstick
-Getting married in homes; costumes; Paper flowers
(47:00) - Wedding song - La fleure de la jeunesse
(51:40) - Odile Falcon - Quand je suis à mon aise
Dennis McGee, Sady Courville, Octa Clark, Preston Manuel:
(54:30) - La coulée rodair
-Marche des mariés (Wedding March)
-Acadian Two-Step
Rendez-Vous des Cajuns; Performances by Paul Daigle and Cajun Gold; Delton Broussard and the Lawtell Playboys;
Paul Daigle and Cajun Gold:
Paul Daigle - Accordion and Vocals
Robert Elkins - Guitar and Vocals
Vernon Bergeron - Drums
Tony Thibodeaux - Fiddle
Kelly Hebert - Bass
La 'tite robe courte
La lumière dans ton chassis
Georgia Lou
Quelle Etoile (Paul plays solo version)
(19:10) - La valse de la vie
(23:50) - Roger Lafleur; Cajun Humor
Delton Broussard and the Lawtell Playboys:
Delton Broussard - Accordion
Calvin Carrière - Fiddle
(30:20) - Bernadette
-Les flammes d'enfer
-Jolie blonde
-Gotta Find My Woman
Jimmy Newman; Cajun Cooking - Speghetti and Meatballs
Delton Broussard:
(58:45) - Dog Hill
-Everybody Likes to Zydeco
-Madeleine
-La valse des Cherokees
-Roger Lafleur; Cajun Humor
Paul Daigle and Cajun Gold:
(01:23:20) - 'Tit bec dou
-Les memoires dans mon couer
-Chère Aline
-J'ai rèvé hier au soir
-Hackberry Hop
-La lumière dans ta chassis
-Paul Daigle's Blues
-La valse criminelle
Rendez-Vous des Cajuns; Performances by Nonc Allie Young and the Basile Cajun Band;Nolton Semien Band of Lawtell;
Nonc Allie and the Basile Cajun Band:
Nonc Allie Young - Accordion
Claudia Wood - Bass
Donald Ortego - T-fer
Natalie ?? - Drums
John Stelly - Fiddle
-Eunice Two Step
-Chère tout tout
-J'étais au bal
-Chère 'tits yeux bleus
-Les flammes d'enfer
-Anatou Clement - Comedy Routine
Nolton Simien Zydeco Band:
Nolton Simien - Accordion and Vocals
John Simien - Drums
Bill Simien - Bass
Wayne ?? - Guitar
(41:15) - Tout les temps en temps
-Dance All Night (Stay a Little Longer)
-Joe Pitre à deux femmes
-Be My Lady, Be My Woman, or Be My Wife
-Zydeco (That's Where Everybody Go)
-Jalapeno Lena
-We're Gonna Party Down
Mike Simon - recipe for crawfish chowder:
Nolton Simien Zydeco Band:
(01:08:50) - Zydeco, (That's Where Everybody Go)
-Jalapeno Lena
-We're Gonna Party Down
(01:24:48) - Anatou Clement - Comedy Routine
-Nonc Allie
(01:33:00) - Lacassine Special
-Jolie blonde
-Jongle à moi
-J'ai passé devant ta porte
-La valse d'héritage
-Madeleine
Rendez-Vous des Cajuns; Performances by Clement Brothers Cajun Band; Henry Grey and the Cats; Ed and Bee Deshotels
Hosted by Barry Ancelet
The Clement Brothers:
Terry Clement - Accordion
Grant Clement - Guitar
Purvis Clement - Fiddle
Ronnie Boudreaux - Drums
-Diggy Diggy Lo
-Jolie blonde
-Pine Grove Blues
-Grand Mamou
-Lake Charles Two-step
(25:00) - Ed and Bee Deshotels
-Cajun Stories - Yvonne et Yvette
Henry Gray and the Cats:
Henry Gray - Rhodes piano and vocals
Rudy Richard - Guitar (Played with Slim Harpo)
Zack "The Cat" Gaines - Drums
Brian Bruce - Harmonica
Andy Cornett - Bass
(37:20) - Instrumental Blues
-What'd I Say
-Worried Blues
Nursy Lafleur: Cajun Cooking
Henry Gray and the Cats:
-Instrumental Blues
-Howlin' Wolf Tune
(01:13:30) - Harmonica Duel
-When Things Go Wrong With You, It Hurts Me, Too
(01:27:30) - Ed and Bee Deshotels
-Cajun Stories
The Clement Brothers:
(01:36:53) - Pauvre hobo
-La valse de la Nouvelle Orléans
-Blues Cajun
-Valse de Bélizaire
-Choupique Two-step
Rendez-Vous des Cajuns; Performances by Dewey Balfa and the Balfa Brotherhoood; Preston Frank and the Soileau Playboys
Preston Frank and the Soileau Playboys:
Preston Frank - Accordion
Keith Frank - Drums
Jennifer Frank - Keyboard
(01:06:00) - Instrumental Two-step
-'Joe Pitre à deux femmes'
-'Jolie blonde'
-'Why You Wanna Make Me Cry'
-'Chère tout-tout'
Larry Miller triangle demonstration:
-Preston Frank (Second Set)
-'Big Mamou'
-'Highway Zydeco'
-'Hot Tamale Baby'
-'No Good Woman'
-'Dance All Night'
Rendez-Vous des Cajuns; Performances by Jamie Berzas and Cajun Tradition; John Delafose and the Eunice Playboys;
Hosted by Jim Olivier:
Jamie Berzas and Cajun Tradition:
Jamie Berzas - Accordion and Vocals
Lee Manuel - Fiddle
Madeleine Berzas - Drums
-Eunice Two Step
(04:10) - Les traces de mon bogué
-J'ai étais au bal
-J'ai passé devant ta porte
-Evangeline Two Step
(22:20) - Dave Petitjean; Cajun Humor:
John Delafose and the Eunice Playboys:
John Delafose - Accordion and Vocals
Gene Delafose - Drums
Jermaine Fontenot - Scrubboard
Tony Delafose - Bass
Curvis Williams - Cowbell
(34:55) - Johnny Can't Dance
-Joe Pitre
-La valse de cemitière
-Quoi faire
-Lucille
-I Can't Stop Loving You
(01:04:05) - Claudia Wood - How to make filé
John Delafose and the Eunice Playboys:
-'Won't You Please Do Right?'
-'Grand Mamou'
-'Johnny Billy Goat'
Dave Petitjean - Cajun Humor
Jamie Berzas and Cajun Tradition:
(01:40:24) - Les flammes d'enfer
-'Lafayette Playboy Waltz'
-'Quand j'étais pauvre'
-'Jolie blonde'
Rendez-Vous des Cajuns; Performances by Johnnie Allan and the Memories; Hiram Sampy and the Bad Habits; Harry Lafleur and Friends;
Johnnie Allan and the Memories:
-'The Promised Land'
-'Lonely Days and Lonely Nights'
(08:54) - Sweet Soul Music
-'I Wonder Where You Are Tonight'
(17:35) - 'South to Louisiana'
Harry LaFleur and Claudia Wood:
(23:52) - 'Danse, 'tit Cajun, danse'
-'Chère mignone'
-'Prairie Cajun Breakdown'
(33:18) - Harry's Reel
Hiram Sampy and the Bad Habits:
(37:50) - 'Colinda'
-'Lucille'
-'Hot Tamale Baby'
(52:38) - 'Don't Have the Power I Had Ten Years Ago'
-'You Don't Call Me No More'
-'Hip et taieau'
(01:13:00) - 'Don't Mess With My Tout-Tout'
Harry LaFleur and Claudia Wood:
(01:20:30) - 'Contradanse à pépère'
-'T'es petite et t'es mignonne'
-'Chère Mom'
Johnnie Allan and the Memories:
(01:34:23) - 'Can't Turn Ya Loose'
-'Boney Maroni'
-'I Want My Baby Back Again'
Rendez-Vous des Cajuns; Performances by Boozoo Chavis; Ray Aucoin; Interview with Eddie Shuler;
Hosted by Shirley Bergeron:
Boozoo Chavis and His Magic Sounds:
-'Oh, Bye'
-'Bye Bye'
-'Diggy Liggy Lo'
(12:40) - Dog Hill
-'Jolie catin'
-'Boozoo is Here to Stay'
(25:30) - Deacon Jones
-'Paper In My Shoe'
-'Colinda'
(32:30) - Interview with Eddie Shuler - Founder of Goldband Records
-'First working with the Hackberry Ramblers'
-'Iry LeJeune - Story about recording the Duralde Waltz'
-Recording Boozoo Chavis
Boozoo Chavis and His Magic Sounds:
(43:30) - 'Paper in My Shoe'
-'Leona Had a Party'
-'Gone à la maison'
(57:25) - 'Suzie Q'
-'Uncle Bud'
Blake Mouton:
(01:06:30) - ''Tit monde'
-'Crowley Two-Step'
-'La valse de Cajun'
-'Church Point Breakdown'
Ray Aucoin:
(01:15:30) - Kansas City
-'This Should Go On Forever'
-'Mathilda'
(01:27:17) - 'Jolie blonde'
-'The Prisoner's Song'
-'Last Date'
(01:37:20) - Linus Bertrand - Recipe for Sauce Piquante
Ray Aucoin:
(01:45:15) - 'Wasted Days and Wasted Nights'
-'Colinda'
-'On Bended Knee'
Rendez-Vous des Cajuns; performances by Nathan Menard; Bruce Daigrepont; Lula Landry; Vernon Smith;
Nathan Menard and his Rambling Cajuns:
Nathan Menard - Accordion and Vocals
Louis Foreman - Fiddle
Nonc Jules Guidry - T-fer
Intro:
-Valse à Tolam
(06:44) - Triangle Club Special
-La valse de l'héritage
-Ossun Two-Step
(22:13) - Cajun Cooking Segment - Vernon Smith - Catfish Courtbillon Recipe
Nathan Menard and his Rambling Cajuns:
(26:04) - La vie du musicien
-Mamou Two-Step
-Chère tout-tout
(40:34) - Hick's Wagon Wheel Special
-Grand Texas
(50:20) - Lula Landry
-La fleur de la jeunesse
-Quelle petite homme
-Dis Shick Ma Pelly Gum Gal
(01:01:00) - Les filles du Vermilion
Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band:
Bruce Daigrepont - Accordion and Vocals
Waylon Thibodeaux - Fiddle and Vocals
Ann Daigrepont - T-fer
(01:06:22) - Laisser-faire
-La valse de la rivière rouge
-Paradis des musiciens
(01:19:37) - L'arc en ciel
-Bruce's Two-Step
(01:30:10) - Lula Landry
-Isabeau
-Story
-Story about accordion player
(01:40:08) - La 'tite Anna à Mogène Meaux
Bruce Daigrepont:
(01:43:10) - Danse carré
-Disco et fais do-do
-Port Arthur Blues
-Marksville Two-Step
Rendez-Vous des Cajuns; Performances by Felton LeJeune and the Cajun Cowboys; Fernest Arceneaux and the Thunders; Boo LeDoux; Mrs. Mary Alice Janot;
Hosted by Barry Ancelet
[soundtrack extremely low]
Felton LeJeune and the Cajun Cowboys:
Felton LeJeune - Accordion
Herman LeJeune - Fiddle
Leon Lejeune - Bass
Dudley Courville - Steel Guitar
Intro:
-Parting Waltz
-Evangeline Special
-La valse des mèches
(15:30) - La valse de KLFY
Recipe - Inaudible
Felton LeJeune and the Cajun Cowboys:
-'Tits yeux bleus
(33:15) - Les flammes d'enfer
-Ouvre la porte
-Laisse-moi parlez à ton coeur
(42:50) - Lacassine Special
Boo LeDoux - Talking about Cowboys:
-Making Horse Saddles
Fernest Arceneaux and the Thunders:
(01:03:50) - Zydeco Boogaloo
-Hey Mama
-Endless Zydeco Jam
(01:24:02) - Walking to New Orleans
Boo LeDoux - Talking about Cowboys
Fernest Arceneaux:
(01:45:25) - Joe Pitre à deux femmes
-Rock me Mama
-Bernadette
Rendez-vous des Cajuns; Performances by Rufus Thibodeaux with Jim Olivier; Aldus Roger and Adam Hebert; Rena Menard;
Rufus Thibodeaux:
-Lake Arthur Stomp
(4:25) - Jolie blonde
-Cajun Shuffle (Pauvre Hobo)
Rufus Thibodeaux avec Jim Olivier:
(12:00) - Grande Texas
-J'aime mes samedi soirs
(23:40) - Rena Menard - Cajun Humor
Rufus Thibodeaux and Jim Olivier:
(37:15) - Faded Love
-Tout les deux pour la même
(47:20) - You Hurt a Good Hearted Man
-Allons au fais do-do
Rena Menard - Cajun Humor
Aldus Roger with Adam Hebert:
(01:09:13) - Instrumental
-Tous les soirs
-Jeunes gens de la campagne
-'tit oiseau
-Madeleine
-'Tit Maurice
(01:38:55) - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
-Waltz of No Return
(01:49:07) - Lacassine Special
-Lafayette Playboy Waltz
Rendez-vous des Cajuns; Performances by J.C. Labbie and Fred Charlie; Morris Ardoin and Band; Mercedes Vidrine; Inez Catalon;
J.C. Labbie and Fred Charlie:
J.C. Labbie - Accordion
Fred Charlie - Guitar
Elridge Aguillard - Fiddle
Johnny Credeur - Steel Guitar
-Creole Stomp
-Cajun Bandstand
-Mom, dit moi quo faire la vie est comme ca
-Allons à Lafayette
(24:50) - Inez Catalon
-Homme d'une grande famille
-La fille et le vieux riche marchand
-Le soir en se couchant
-Mon mari est la
-Chaque coronel
Morris Ardoin et ses amis:
Morris Ardoin - Accordion and Vocals
Amos Washington - Bass
Kearest Fruge - Guitar
Nathan Fontenot - Fiddle
Paul Thomas - T-fer
Wayne Sylvester - Guitar
Paul Clopher? - Drums
(39:23) - Johnny Can't Dance
-Grand Mamou
-Chameaux One-Step
-Mardi Gras Jig
Mercedes Vidrine - Recipe for Hen and Sausage Gumbo
Morris Ardoin et ses amis:
(1:12:35) - Lovebridge Waltz
-High Point Two-Step
-Jongle à moi
(1:29:55) - Inez Catalon
-Grand rivière
J.C. Labbie and Fred Charlie:
(1:40:52) - Les bons temps sont apres me tué
-Tolam Waltz
-Jolie blonde
Rendez-vous des Cajuns; performances by Richard Naquin and Sons of Cajun Heritage; Marce LaCouture;
No Sound;
Rendez-vous des Cajuns; Performances by Sheryl Cormier; Willis Prudhomme; Moise Robin;
Hosted by Barry Ancelet:
Sheryl Cormier and Cajun Sound:
Sheryl Cormier - Accordion
Chad Cormier - Fiddle
Pat Richard - Guitar
Judy Meche - Drums
Randy Bouté - Bass
-Creole Stomp
-Kaplan Waltz
-Lacassine Special
(14:17) - Madame Sosthene
-La porte d'en arrière
Moise Robin with Faren Serrette:
(24:20) - Grande Basile
-Eunice Two-Step (Amedé Ardoin's Two-Step)
-Cowboy Waltz
Willis Prudhomme:
(37:55) - Theme Song
-Bayou Teche Waltz
-Why You Want to Make Me Cry?
(47:53) - Georgia Lou
-Jacqueline
Ali Fontenot - Cajun Cooking - Recipe for Sticky Chicken
Willis Prudhomme:
(1:05:15) - Don't Mess With My Toot-Toot
-The Battle of New Orleans
-Valse de Belizaire
-Joe Pitre à deux femmes
-Mom, je jongle toujours de toi
Moise Robin:
(1:24:25) - 'Tit yo-yo
-La valse de Mexico
-Queue de tortue
(1:33:55) - Hey mom
Sheryl Cormier:
(1:41:48) - Zydecos sont pas salé
-Reno Waltz
-Madeleine
Rendez-vous des Cajuns; Performances by Beausoleil; Jimmy Breaux; Avisard Thibodeaux; Kit Fontenot;
Jimmy Breaux and Cajun Delight:
Jimmy Breaux - Accordion
Clarence Cormier - Guitar and Vocals
Mike Dugas - Bass
Kevin Dugas - Drums
Isaac Miller - Steel Guitar
-Crowley Two-step
-Valse des grands bois
(10:02) - Saturday Night Special
-Jolie blonde
(20:00) - Cajun Delight Special
-Flammes d'enfer
-Calcasieu Waltz
-Hick's Wagon Wheel Special
(37:40) - Kaplan Waltz
-J'ai étais au bal
-Crowley Two-Step
Avizar Thibodeaux - Talks about hand fishing
Beausoleil:
Michael Doucet - Fiddle and Vocals
Pat Breaux - Accordion
David Doucet - Guitar
Tommy Comeau - Bass
Billy Ware - Percussion
Tommy Alesi - Drums
(1:08:35) - Acadian Two-Step
-Tout les deux pour la même
-Pauvre hobo
(1:26:45) - Je suis marié avec une, en amour avec une autre
Kit Fontenot: Cajun Cooking - Recipe for garfish Balls
(1:43:35) - Danse carré
-Laissez les bon temps rouler
-Les maringouins tout mangé ma belle
-Fait pas ca
Rendez-vous des Cajuns; Performances by Don Montoucet and Lionel Leleux; Varise Conner; Perez Family;
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Don Montoucet and Lionel Leleux:
-Chère tout-tout
-J'étais au bal
-J'ai passé devant ta porte
Irvan Perez:
-Discussion of Islenos; Decima Singing
Varise Connor:
-Lake Arthur Stomp
-Hack à Moreau
-Rabbit Stole the Pumpkin
-Chère bébé créole
-Valse à deux temps
Madame Adonis Montoucet:
-Cajun Cooking
Varise Connor:
-Grand Mamou
-St. Louis Blues
-Down South
-You've Got to See Momma Every Night
-Chère tout-tout
-Drunkard's Waltz
-Over the Waves
Irvan Perez:
-Discussion of Islenos
Don Montoucet and Lionel Leleux:
-Balfa Waltz
-Traces de mon bogué
-Les flammes d'enfer
-Bascom Mouton's Waltz
Rendez-vous des Cajuns; Performances by Wayne Toups; Raful Neal; The Doucet Brothers;
The Doucet Brothers:
-McGee Medley - Reel des Deshotels
-La valse de jonglement
(11:35) - La valse à Pop
(17:25) - Alex Girouard - Cajun Humor
Raful Neal:
(29:58) - The Things That I Used to Do
-Down Home Blues
Mrs. Raful Neal:
(51:15) - Cooking - Pork Chop Casserole
Raful Neal:
-The Day I Blew Little Bertha Down
-Wang Dang Doodle
(1:03:28) - Merry Christmas Baby (Kenny Neal singing)
-Mojo Hand
-Gonna Make Love All Night
-You're So Fine
(1:21:10) - Alex Girouard - Cajun Humor
Wayne Toups, Michael Doucet, Tommy Comeaux and David Doucet:
(1:31:25) - J'ai étais au bal
-Calcasieu Waltz
-Johnny Can't Dance
-Jolie blonde
-Lucille
Rendez-vous des Cajuns; Performances by Leroy Broussard; Dewey Balfa; Merlin Fontenot; Filé;
Leroy Broussard:
Leroy Broussard - Accordion
Merlin Fontenot - Fiddle
Jessie Credeur - Steel Guitar
-Waltz
-Flammes d'enfer
(10:23) - Chère Alyce
-J'étais au bal
-Big Boy Waltz
Dewey Balfa:
(25:25) - Valse du bambocheur
-Perrodin Two-Step
-Grand Mamou
Leroy Broussard:
(38:05) - Josephine
-Valse de la prison
(49:00) - Lemonade Song
-J'ai parti au Texas
-La chanson d'hibou
J.C. Darmond - Cajun Cooking - Making cane syrup from sugar cane
Filé:
Ward Lormand - Accordion
Kevin Shearin - Bass
Peter Stevens - Drums
Darren Wallace - Fiddle
(1:10:05) - Acadian Two-Step
-Laissez les bon temps rouler
-Allons Rock and Roll
(1:24:10) - Chez Fred
-Quoi faire
(1:35:35) - Norma-Jean Miller - Recipe for crawfish casserole
Filé:
(1:39:35) - Bosco Stomp
-Cherokee Waltz
-'Tits yeux noirs
-Pine Grove Blues