Center for Louisiana Studies Archival Catalog

Interviews with Barry Ancelet et al:

0:00 - Barry Ancelet talks about the song "Le premier jours de janvier"
1:30 - Barry Ancelet talks about the song "Isabeau" / "Sur le bord de l'eau"

3:00 - Barry Ancelet talks about Lula Landry, "Vermilion Parish southern coast culture"
-singing traditions, lack of cultural blending, high percentage of Acadians

4:21 - footage of Saint Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Abbeville, LA
6:00 - footage of a country road, fields
12:55 - Chromalloy Drilling Fluids
14:00 - Eunice Impliment Co.
14:45 - Cowboy Lounge

15:30 - Morris Ardoin talks with Alan Lomax about building his dance hall
17:50 - Morris Ardoin talks about learning to play music from Bois Sec Ardoin
19:50 - Morris Ardoin talks about country dance halls
21:00 - Morris Ardoin talks about "French music"
22:40 - Morris Ardoin talks about traveling around the world to play music with his father
23:50 - Morris Ardoin plays a waltz on the accordion
24:40 - Morris Ardoin plays "Chère ici, chère là-bas" on accordion
25:45 - Morris Ardoin talks about his parents' relationship, his siblings
27:35 - Alan Lomax talks about the ethnic make-up of various communities in South Louisiana, the Ardoin family
30:50 - Morris Ardoin talks about truck driving, farming
32:00 - Morris Ardoin talks about "coups de main," communities getting together to help one another
32:47 - Morris Ardoin talks about integration, racism
35:00 - Morris Ardoin talks about violence in the city
37:00 - Morris Ardoin talks about his piece of land
39:30 - Morris Ardoin talks about the man who raised his Bois Sec Ardoin
40:00 - Footage of country roads Community Rice Drier, Inc.

42:25 - Alan Lomax introduces Dorestine Ledet
43:50 - Dorestine Ledet talks about her family, her father farming, her father's murder
47:30 - Dorestine Ledet talks about the way her parents raised her
49:00 - Dorestine Ledet talks about children's songs, games and stories
50:08 - Dorestine Ledet sings a lullaby
51:00 - Dorestine Ledet talks about raising her children
53:25 - Dorestine Ledet talks about Bouki and Lapin stories
54:50 - Dorestine Ledet talks about picking cotton and trapping as a child
55:50 - Dorestine Ledet talks about New Year's traditions in her family, sings "Bonjour, bonne année"
58:00 - Dorestine Ledet talks about Christmas traditions, sings "La Table Ronde" and talks about a game they played with the song
59:00 - Dorestine Ledet sings a song

1:01:00 - Dorestine Ledet talks about and sings the song "Dégo" / "Dago"
1:03:29 - Dorestine Ledet talks about and sings a juré
1:07:15 - Dorestine Ledet talks about courting when she was young, mothers chaperoning, holding hands with a handkerchief in between
1:08:00 - Dorestine Ledet talks about meeting her husband at a juré
1:12:00 - Dorestine Ledet talks about wakes in the home / veiller un mort
1:15:10 - Dorestine Ledet sings and talks about "Les haricots sont pas salés"
1:15:55 - Dorestine Ledet talks about mazurkas, sings "La misère"
1:16:45 - Dorestine Ledet talks about "le baisse bas," sings "Le hack à Moreau"
1:18:20 - Dorestine Ledet sings "Dégo" / "Dago"
1:19:08 - Dorestine Ledet sings "Fais do do pour ta maman"
1:19:45 - Dorestine Ledet shows her family altar, talks about saying the rosary
1:21:50 - Dorestine Ledet talks about her family's Native American ancestery
1:24:00 - Dorestine Ledet talks about punishment as a child
1:25:00 - Dorestine Ledet talks about weddings
1:28:00 - Dorestine Ledet shows her family portraits
1:30:00 - Gladys Courville talks about how she met and married Dennis McGee

Interviews with Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet et al:

0:00 - Eva Arceneaux and Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talk about farming, working in the fields
1:00 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet sings "Rockabye baby" and "Fais do do bébé"
1:50 - Ruby Thibodeaux talks about farming as a child, raising sugar cane
3:40 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about growing up in a strict household, cleaning the house on Saturday afternoons
4:50 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about going to house dances
5:30 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about her parents' deaths
6:15 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about her sister being thrown out of the house
8:00 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about meeting her husband, Don Montoucet
9:00 - Alan Lomax talks about themes in Cajun music
10:00 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about and sings "La danse à Jim Olivier"
13:00 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about chores, taking care of animals, learning how to cook from her mother
14:30 - Eva Arceneaux talks about cooking
15:30 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet explains how to make a jamblaya
16:50 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about making a dressing from rabbits
17:10 - Ruby Thibodeaux talks about going to dances with her family, her parents passing away during a tornado in 1957
20:05 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about baking bread every night, washing clothes with a washboard, doing household chores
23:00 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about giving birth at home
24:00 - Adolis "Dol" Roger Montoucet talks about women's vs. men's roles in a family

25:56 - Canray Fontenot talks about Nathan Abshire learning to play accordion, her cousin's son playing with Clifton Chenier
27:50 - Canray Fontenot talks about his parents playing accordion
28:30 - Canray Fontenot talks about Douglas Bellard
29:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about making a fiddle out of a cigar box, learning how to play the fiddle
31:40 - Canray Fontenot shows the fiddle he made from a cigar box when he was seven years old, playing dances with his father
32:30 - Canray Fontenot talks about working in the field
33:30 - Canray Fontenot talks about being in a C.C. Camp
34:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about his Native American ancestry
35:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about his father playing with Amédé Ardoin
36:15 - Canray Fontenot talks about Amédé Ardoin playing at boucheries and dances
40:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about Amédé Ardoin having trouble at white dances, how he died
43:45 - Canray Fontenot talks about Amédé Ardoin playing at a dance hall in Basile, writing songs
45:50 - Canray Fontenot talks about how people would protect Amédé Ardoin while he played
46:40 - Canray Fontenot talks about house dances at his grandfather's house
48:25 - Canray Fontenot talks about Amédé Ardoin's death in Pineville
50:15 - Canray Fontenot talks about "La Valse de 99 ans" and "Eunice Two Step"
51:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about Iry Lejeune and other Cajun musicians imitating Amédé Ardoin's music
54:10 - Canray Fontenot plays "Choupique Two Step"
55:50 - Canray Fontenot demonstrates how black musicians play "Eunice Two Step"
57:45 - Canray Fontenot demonstrates how white musicians play "Eunice Two Step"
58:45 - Canray Fontenot plays "Eunice Two Step"
59:45 - Canray Fontenot talks about triangle playing, his father's triangle, spoon playing

1:03:00 - Alan Lomax talks about percussion in African music and Haitian voodoo ceremonies
1:04:35 - Canray Fontenot talks about Sydney Babineaux of Rayne, rubboard music
1:06:58 - Canray Fontenot talks about his father running Mardi Gras
1:08:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about house dances, using a handkerchief to dance with a woman, being chaperoned
1:11:30 - Canray Fontenot talks about fighting in dance halls, house dances
1:16:15 - Canray Fontenot talks about Mardi Gras, fighting at courirs
1:21:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about his father playing square dances, plays "The Arkansas Traveler"
1:22:00 - Canray Fontenot plays "Johnny Can't Dance"
1:23:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about his father sharecropping, farming, not being allowed to sing or whistle in the fields
1:27:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about relations between white people and black people, segregation, voting rights
1:31:00 - Canray Fontenot tells a story about a group of back men being thrown out of a white church in Basile
1:33:30 - Canray Fontenot talks about his parents speaking French, being punished for speaking French, raising his children in French
1:38:00 - Canray Fontenot talks about and plays "Bonsoir Moreau"

John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys:

0:00 - John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys play "Lucille," Geno Delafose plays rubboard
4:45 - John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys play an instrumental
11:38 - John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys play "I Gave you my Heart"
16:00 - John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys play "Jolie Blonde"

21:30 - Alan Lomax interviews a carpenter from Iowa
-Louisiana and his family about going zydeco dancing, being raised in French

24:15 - Alan Lomax interivews a family from Lake Charles about Zydeco music and speaking French

26:40 - Alan Lomax interviews John Delafose about going out to French dances with his parents as a kid
-playing the harmonica, and then buying an accordion when he was 16

28:00 - John Delafose talks about playing at the World's Fair, touring in Africa
28:45 - John Delafose talks about the difference between Zydeco music and Cajun music
29:40 - Alan Lomax interviews John Delafose's wife and their friends
32:20 - Alan Lomax interviews Ann Goodly about playing accordion
34:30 - Alan Lomax talks to John Delafose about race relations
36:30 - Alan Lomax interviews John Delafose's wife about what it's like to be the wife of a musician
38:50 - Alan Lomax interviews a woman about being a woman in South Louisiana, farming, raising children, etc.
39:50 - John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys play "Bad, Bad Woman"

Interviews with Dewey Balfa et al:

0:00 - Dewey Balfa talks about growing up speaking French, speaking French in school, American identity vs. Cajun identity, bilingualism
1:10 - Dewey Balfa talks about issues with teaching standard French rather than Louisiana French being taught in schools
4:00 - Dewey Balfa talks about his Folk Arts in the Schools program, explains the reason for using English words when speaking Louisiana French
5:55 - Dewey Balfa talks about the word "fiddle" vs. the word "violin"
8:00 - Dewey Balfa talks about the various instruments used in Cajun music, the origins of the accordion in Cajun and Creole music
10:00 - Dewey Balfa talks about preserving Cajun music
11:00 - Dewey Balfa talks about playing at the Newport Festival in 1964, traveling the world to play Cajun music
14:00 - Dewey Balfa talks about Cajun bands in other states (Washington, California)
15:00 - Dewey Balfa talks about various themes in Cajun music
16:00 - Dewey Balfa plays "Chère joues roses"
17:40 - Dewey Balfa talks about his childhood, his family, sharecropping, etc.
20:20 - Dewey Balfa talks about his grandfather traveling from Chataigner to Krotz Springs to sell fish and his father purchasing his first harmonica
23:30 - Dewey Balfa talks about his father playing harmonica, fiddle and accordion and singing, Dewey Balfa's aunts singing, "Je me suis marié"
25:20 - Dewey Balfa sings "Je me suis marié" a capella
27:30 - Dewey Balfa talks about the song "Hip et taiau"
28:50 - Dewey Balfa plays "Hip et taiau"
30:30 - Dewey Balfa talks about Douglas Bellard, "La Valse de la prison" / "Les Barres de la prison", Canray Fontenot
33:00 - Dewey Balfa talks about "Jolie blonde"
34:00 - Dewey Balfa talks about women not being allowed to play Cajun music in public
36:40 - Dewey Balfa talks about "The Pine Grove Blues," Nathan Abshire
40:10 - Dewey Balfa and Deo Langley play "The Pine Grove Blues"
42:00 - Dewey Balfa talks about "The Criminal Waltz" / "La Valse criminelle," Leo Solieau, Mayeus Lafleur
45:30 - Dewey Balfa talks about Robert Jardell
47:00 - Dewey Balfa talks about his violin from France (Gérard Dôle's father's violin)
49:00 - Deo Langley plays an unnamed contredanse
53:30 - Deo Langley plays "Fais ton idée"

57:30 - Dewey Balfa talks about frontiers between communities, disputes about women, violence

1:02:25 (Tape 1385 begins) - footage of various signage relating to the word "Cajun" (Cajun Village, Cajun Field, Acadiana Mall, Cajun Court Club, Rue Louis XIV, The Cajun Cottage, Cajun Cycles, Cajun Country Flea Market)

1:10:05 (Tape 1386 begins) - The Hackberry Ramblers play "Jambalaya"
1:11:45 - Luderin Darbone talks about The Hackberry Ramblers, their 50th anniversary, the history of the band
1:13:45 - Luderin Darbone talks about the influence of hillbilly music and Cajun music in their style, playing without an accordion, "The Riverside Ramblers"
1:15:50 - The Hackberry Ramblers play "Jambalaya"/"Grand Texas"
1:18:05 - Crawford Vincent talks about "Grand Texas"
1:18:45 - Edwin Duhon talks about romantic themes in Cajun music, marriage
1:20:45 - The Hackberry Ramblers play "Jambalaya"/"Grand Texas"
1:23:40 - Luderin Darbone and Edwin Duhon talk about "Une piastre ici, une piastre là-bas"
1:25:52 - The Hackberry Ramblers play "Une piastre ici, une piastre là-bas"

1. Tape 1393-1395 - Houma Indians
2. Tape 1396-1397 - Bois Sec
3. Tape 1398 - The Glass House, New Orleans, LA*NO SOUND*

0:00 - Interview with Amerindian
5:00 - Interview in a boat
20:00 - View of the river
22:30 - Continuation of the interview in the boat
48:50 - Interview with a man and his wife
56:13 - The man playing wit his accordéon
59:34 - Band is playing music
1:08:00 - Interview of the band's member

1. Tape 1500-1502 - Breaux Bridge, LA; Walter Mouton and the Scott Playboys
-Hathaway two-step
-J'ai passe devant ta porte
-Church Point Breakdown
-J'aimerais connaitre; Waltz; J'etais au bal; Laisse moi parler a ton coeur
-Quand moi, je parler (Belton Richard tune); La porte en arriere; Interview with Walter Mouton

2. Tape 1503-1505 - Mardi Gras Church Point, LA Feb 1985
-Saddling a horse, Captain giving Mardi Gras rules; Mardi Gras footage; footage of band on the wagon
-Cajun from Church Point; Lucille
-Interviews; footage of the run, chasing a chicken and a pig; Mardi Gras song

0:00 - Walter Mouton and the Scott Playboys are playing music, couples are dancing
8:06 - Band playing the Church Point Breakdown
15:27 - Interview of a couple celebrating their 51 years anniversary who've met a dance party
36:46 - Interview of Walter Mouton who is been playing music with his band since 34 years, he was 13 years old when he started
38:05 - Walter Mouton is speaking about his job in the oil field and he is playing music as a hobby
38:36 - Walter Mouton is speaking about the fact that every Cajun song is telling a story and help to get together and meet new people
40:05 - Walter Mouton is speaking about the song 'j'ai passé devant ta porte" and the meaning of it
41:40 - Walter Mouton and the Scott Playboys are playing music, couples are dancing
44:22 - Horses are coming on a trailer
45:30 - A man is explaining how to saddle a horse in Cajun French
49:00 - People are getting ready for Mardi Gras
50:03 - A man is explaining the rule of wearing a mask and a costume at mardi gras
52:28 - men are picking up beer
53:40 - The parade is starting
59:42 - People are dancing in the parade
1:01:03 - A band is playing music
1:06:01 - Men are putting beer in ice
1:07:17 - a man is getting is face paint before the parade
1:08:34 - Mr Richard is explaining that he is been riding his horse for Mardi Gras since 5 years
1:09:28 - Mr Richard say "un vrai Cajun de la Louisiane mange du Gumbo et du boudin et fait de la boucherie et danse tous les samedi au soir mon cher"
1:11:19 - A man say Mardi Gras is a Cajun holiday it's better than Christmas for Louisiana people
1:19:12 - A man is dressing up like a black woman
1:19:50 - The horses are getting ready for the parade
1:20:45 - A man is explaining that they will have to stop 12 times in 11 miles he's riding his horse first an ask for some donation for Mardi Gras and they will dance for the people
1:23:40 - People are dancing
1:24:29 - Men are running after the chicken
1:27:10 - The parade is starting
1:29:46 - Men are running after the chicken
1:31:18 - Men are running after the pig
1:32:43 - Band is playing Cajun music
1:35:37 - Showing different Mardi Gras costumes
1:37:06 - a man is speaking about the tradition and said that around 200 people run mardi gras every year in Church Point

1. Tape 1512-1513 - Mulates
-Beausoleil - Bonsoir Moreau; Sur le Cortableu
-Travailler c'est trop dur; Bosco Stomp; waltz
-Les flammes d'enfer; waltz, t'en a eu

2. Tape 1514 - Entrance to Soleil

3. Tape 1515 - Footage from Oberlin Mardi Gras - footage of run and gathering, Mardi Gras Song
-footage of crawfish ponds, J'etais au bal; chasing the chicken

4. Tape 1516 - Mardi Gras Song

0:00 - Beausoleil play a Mulates the song Bonsoir Moreau
2:23 - Beausoleil play a Mulates the song Sur le Cortableu
5:27 - Beausoleil play a Mulates the song travailler c'est trop dur
11:47 - Beausoleil play a Mulates the song Bosco Stomp
17:54 - Beausoleil play a Mulates the song waltz
24:33 - Beausoleil play a Mulates the song Les flammes d'enfer
31:04 - Beausoleil play a Mulates the song waltz
35:06 - Beausoleil play a Mulates the song t'en a eu

41:17 - view of Oberlin
44:10 - Men are speaking I Cajun French
50:48 - Men are playing pool in a bar
55:17 - people are getting ready for the parade and putting their masks on
55:51 - men are riding their horses
57:50 - Men are dancing
58:16 - Men are getting on their trailer for the parade

58:40 - The parade is starting
1:13:11 - Men are running after the chicken
1:15:37 - An old man is playing accordion the others men are dancing
1:16:39 - Men are running after the chicken
1:16:58 - An old man is playing accordion the others men are dancing and singing
1:19:29 - view of Oberlin (crawfish ponds)
1:29:37 - Men are racing their horses
1:31:05 - Men are signing and playing accordion

Interviews of French teachers and Calvin Carrier Delton Broussard:

1. Tape 1522-1523 - Accordion and Scrubboard, Two French teachers (Amanda LaFleur & Phoebe Trotter)
-Noise in background - Parts of interview are still audible

2. Tape 1524 - Calvin Carrier - Noise in background for first few minutes; House dances
-Back to New Orleans; Les flammes d'enfer
-Delton Broussard on accordion - La robe a parasol
-Michael Doucet joins on fiddle - Baisse Bas (Bonsoir Moreau)
-Midland two step

3. Tape 1525 - Story of the Old Cock

4. Tape 1526 - Gerrard Sellers

0:00 - Band is playing accordion and scrubboard
8:57 - Amanda LaFleur & Phoebe Trotter who are French teachers are speaking about the play they wrote
17:51 - The two teachers qre speaking about the preservation of French language
18:48 - They are saying that people considered themselves as American and not Cajun anymore
21:46 - Amanda LaFleur say that it's important for the kids to learn French so they can bound wit their grandparent in a different way
27:15 - The teachers said that Cajun French should be considered as a real language
31:26 - Amanda LaFleur & Phoebe Trotter said that little kids speak Cajun French and they don't even know they are speaking French
34:56 - Amanda LaFleur say that French will never be the first language of Louisiana but need to stay as the second one
40:00 - Calvin Carrier is playing violon and Delton Broussard on accordion
45:34 - Calvin and Delton speak about few years ago when they was playing in a band
50:19 - Calvin's wife speaks about how they met
55:32 - Calvin Carrier Delton Broussard are playing Back to New Orleans
57:40 - Calvin Carrier Delton Broussard are playing Les flammes d'enfer
1:14:35 - Calvin Carrier Delton Broussard are playing La robe a parasol
1:21:26 - Calvin Carrier Delton Broussard are playing Baisse Bas (Bonsoir Moreau)
1:23:20 - Gerrard Sellers is speaking about hunting and fishing season
1:36:12 - Gerrard Sellers is speaking mosquitos

*Left channel audio distorted*Allons dancer Colinda - partial/audio only;Barry Ancelet announcements;Beausoleil;Mamou Hot Step;Lovebridge Waltz;Danse CarrŽWaltz;Taille des Ronces;Festival footage ends at 13:15

Footage of a man making a crawfish trap

Chere bŽbŽ CrŽole;Interview with Interpreter - Early recordings, learning to play the fiddle;First waltz he learned to play;Dennis talking about house dances;Contradance - Reel des Deshotels

Footage of Michael outside of his house;Riverboat footage;Michael Doucet interview continued;Outside influences in Cajun music - Diatonic AccordionSelling VictrolaÕs leads to first recordings of Cajun Music and song lengths

Playing for a small group of people versus a large crowdThe term ÒZydecoÓMichaek plays Madame Etienne on accordionAmŽdŽ ArdoinÕs music and death;Teaching the first Cajun music course at USLdiatonic accordion

Intro with band in backgroundDifference between Zydeco and Creole musicDifference between Creole and Cajun music;Raised speaking French;Family and the family bandCreole French compared to Parisian French

Explaining how to play the accordionPresent state of Cajun musicInterviewer re-asking questions for camera

Mason 70.62.33-68:

Alma Barthélémy - 7/24/1970:

-Tu peux pas mettre ce macaque dessus mon dos

Isome J. Fontenot - 7/30/1970:

-La Banane à Nonc Adam (Club 73 Special/Acadian Two-Step)

-La Valse du Dimanche Après-midi (La valse qui me fait du mal/la valse de Duson
/la valse de Bayou Chêne/la valse de St. Landry
/la valse des Opelousas/la valse de Stelly/Big Boy Waltz)

-Crowley Two-Step (speed fluctuations)
-La bétaille dans le 'tit arbre (similar to Evangeline Waltz)
-Information sur chanson précédante. La bétaille chanté. Learned from the old folks
-Conversation sur la composition des chansons
-Writing songs down versus keeping it in their heads. Finding music on instruments

(10:37) - J'étais au bal hier au soir
-Conversation sur le café Cajun
-La Valse des 'Cadiens (La Valse de Minuit)
-Conversation sur des rythmes
-Danse de Mardi Gras
-J'ai traversé la mer et les montagnes. Appris de son père
-La vieille tristesse de la Louisiane. Son père aimait beaucoup chanter celui-là
-Cadet Roussel (Laforte : Ma-1)

(20:21) - Rythmes de triangles. Valse

Emmeline Broussard de St. Martinville - 8/2/1970:

-Au bord du vaiseau
-La Belle de Paris (originale)
-Conversation sur les origines
-Faubourg, Fausse Pointe (Coteau Holmes)
-Grandparents from St. Martin parish. Jeanerette.
-Bayou LaFourche 1965-1966. 11 kids, 1 died as a baby
-Je suis le chevalier du roi
-Sur le beau Bayou Tèche (originale)
-Conversation sur la composition des chansons

(29:42) - Au bord de la mer loé
-Près du petit Paris (originale)
-Conversation (festivités)

Gabriel et Emmeline Broussard:

-Coline et 'tit Colin chanté par Gabriel Briyon
-Si par hasard le bonheur est un rêve chanté par Gabriel et Emmeline
-J'ai engagé ma promesse au au baptême. Learned at their first communion
-(+100-year old canticle). Chanté par sa grandmère pour des mariages
-Je suis la délaissée

(41:56) - Ah mon beau château (danse ronde de l'école). Explication de comment jouer le jeu a
-La petite Jaqueline (Mme. Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis à son tour de Paris)
-Au long de la Seine (Nous danserons une ronde)

-Train à vapeur (harmonica)
-Train à vapeur avec un chien qui essaie d'attraper un prisonnier qui s'est échappé du train

Mason 70.62.89-104:

***Actually goes to 105***

Allons Danser Radio Show on KJEF - 08/01/1970:

-Leger's Coffee Shop for sale/rent. Cassidy Insurance Agency
-Lonely Cajun Boy
-Barry Bros
-Automotives, boats, tractors, etc. and locations around Acadiana (Jennings, Lake Charles, and Sulphur)
-Kenny Thibs et les Jokers at the River Club, Mermentau
-Tomorrow Night - Blackie Fruge, Milfred Simon, and the Hick's Wagon Wheel Ramblers
-Bal de noce/fête/anniversaire. Bobby Leger and the Lake Charles Playboys Sunday. BBQ lunches
-Allons Danser - Blackie Fruge, Milfred Simon, and the Hick's Wagon Wheel Ramblers
-Betty Lee Shoe Store Cleareance Sale

-About 10:25 o'clock
-'Tit Claude et Roland Granger the new owners of the Shamrock Club in Lake Charles
-Lionel Cormier and the Sundown Playboys tonight, women get in free
-Aldus Roger and the Lafayette Playboys tomorrow night for a wedding dance
-Les Jours de ma Jeunesse (similar to La Dernière Valse) - Reggie Matte and the Church Point Playboys
-WV Donald? Chevrolet in Jennings
-10:30, weather forecast
-Nathan Abshire and the Pinrgrove Boys at Slim's Club in Kinder. Kingpins tomorrow
-Charles Mann every Wednesday
-'Tit Mamou (Two-Step de Forgeron/Nonc André/Traveler Playboys Special)

(15:45) - Blackie Fruge, Milfred Simon, and the Hick's Wagon Wheel Ramblers. Circle D Label
-10:35, Holly Grocery Bon Ami à Lac Arthur spécials. Peter Bonnet. Ellis Cormier - Cormier's Supermarket
-Lafayette Playboy Waltz (Eunice/Crowley Waltz)
-Aldus Roger. Friday, request with butterflies on the envelope

Gabriel et Emmeline Broussard - Fausse Pointe (Coteau Holmes) - 08/02/1970:

-J'ai passé devant ta porte
-La fête printanière
-Monsieur Rigoulet (composition pour la cité d'Abbéville)
-Conversation sur la vie de G. Broussard. Travaillé dans les cyprières, flotté des arbres, peinturé des bâteaux, etc
-il a fait sa vie dehors. Retired now. 22 Octobre 1900. Faubourg. Le seul qui reste à la vieille place
-Only played harmonica for pleasure. Grand-grandpère du Canada. Broussard et Molbert
-Land in Iberville (Iberia?) and St. Martin parishes. All Broussards are related
-Living on family land. Petit Paris, St. Martinville. Schools, outlawing French and teaching it now
-French learned at home. Going to 4th grade. Graduated in 10 months in English
-Past to go to 7th grade. First 4 sisters, going to school

(34:00) - Conversation sur la vie de E. Broussard
-Baptized in St. Martin de Tours, confirmed and married there as well
-Bayou LaFourche, father born there and came to St. Martinville at 5 years old
-Mother born and raised in Loreauville, Iberia Parish
-Grandfather's grandfather came straight from Acadia
-Evangeline. 1908, l'Ile des Cypres? 5 first lessons of French catechism. French books, education
-Livres de M. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1862 et 1869. only about 20 years she's had them
-School went up to 5th grade locally, St. Martinville was 7 kilometers where the nearest school was
-Going to school at night. Miles versus kilometers, arpents versus acres

78 rpm records - Scott - 08/02/1970:

-La Valse des Pins - Walker Bros - Bluebird B-2195-A
-Jamais Marier (Jeunes Gens de la Campagne/Don't Get Married) - Walker Bros - Bluebird B-2195-B

(45:12) - Ma Blonde est Partie (Jolie Blonde/La Fille de la Veuve/La Valse de Gueydan) - Frères Breaux - Columbia 40510-F

-La Robe Barrée - J.B. Fuselier and his Merrymakers - Bluebird B-2063-B
-Chère Te Te (J'ai été au bal hier au soir/I Went to the Dance) - J.B. Fuselier and his Merrymakers - Bluebird B-2063-A
-La Nouveau Lafayette (Allons à Lafayette/Lafayette Two-Step) - Joe Falcon - Decca 17025-A
-La Valse du Samedi Soir (Mon Cher Bébé Créole/C'est Pas La Peine Tu Brailles) - Joe Falcon - Decca 17025-B