Dairy Day French Song Contest - Abbeville, LA - 1953, Ballads Sung by Forked Island School Children

Accession No.: 
BL1-006

Judged by Louise Olivier, Louise Verret, Dr. Arceneaux

Side 1 - Children’s Division, Oct 16, 1953

00:00:10 - Intro
00:01:53 - Annie Catherine Broussard - "La fête de Dairy Day"

Raywood Morvant

00:03:49 - "J’ai passé devant ta porte"
00:05:14 - "La cravate"
00:06:50 - "J’ai passé dessous le pommier"

00:08:56 - Herman Babineaux - "Papillon"

00:10:29 - Daisy Foster - "J’ai étais au bal"

00:12:15 - Jimmy Morvant - "Je veut marrier"

00:14:17 - Harry Touchet - "Danser Colinda"

00:15:38 - Rita Cecile Landry - "Frère Jacques"

00:16:20 - Amy Dean Meaux - "Savais-vous planter des choux"

Burton LeMaire

00:18:49 - "La marseillaise"
00:20:00 - "Saute Crapaud"
00:20:15 - "Frère Jacques"

00:21:07 - James Broussard - "Je m’ai fait un nouveau beau"

00:23:10 - Amy Dean Meaux - "Quand j'étais petite"

00:27:00 - Catherine Blanchet - Winners announcement

Side 2 - Adult Division - Oct 17, 1953

Raywood Morvant

00:29:40 - "J’ai passé devant ta porte"
00:31:18 - "La cravate"

Joe “Nonc Joe” Harrington

00:34:37 - "Ne pleure pas, vierge de France"
00:37:35 - "La caille et la perdrix"

Ulysses Broussard

00:41:05 - "Madame ??, donne-moi ta fille"
00:43:45 - "Et ou c’est qu’elle est, la malheureuse"

Caesar Vincent

00:45:28 - "O le printemps de Jules Bitière" (sp) (Tobie Lapière)
00:50:06 - "C’est une vieille"

Lelia Labauve

00:53:15 - "Je m’ai fait un nouveau beau"
00:55:20 - "J’ai passé dessous le pommier"
00:56:30 - "Bonjour belle Rosine"

00:58:54 - Andre Pommier - "Allons à Lafayette"

01:01:00 - Mme. Joe Falcon - "Jolie Brune"

01:02:02 - Joe Falcon - "Allons à Lafayette"

Mme. Sylvan Romero

01:04:19 - "Mes trois camarades"
01:06:20 - "Les maragoins"
01:06:55 - "La petite poule caille"

01:08:05 - Clevinis Touchet - "Mon aimable catin"

01:10:42 - Alan Richard - "Dans la Louisiane"

01:!2:20 - Roy Theriot - "Les maragoins"

01:18:20 - Caesar Vincent - "Fais do-do, petite"

01:19:50 - Winners announcement

Forked Island School Children - Mar 17, 1954

01:21:27 - Marlin Hargrave - "Si j’aurais mes souliers" (La cravate)

Forked Island Elementary Fifth and Sixth Grade School Group

01:23:35 - "La Marseillaise"
01:24:30 - "Je suis chrétien"
01:24:52 - "En avant, poumpoum"
01:25:03 - "Saute Crapaud"

01:25:20 - Pervis Hebert - "Devinez quoi ce qu’il y a"

01:26:18 - Agnes Saltzman - "Les maragoins"

01:26:40 - Agnes Saltzman and Burton LeMaire - "Et ou est-ce que t’es parti"

01:28:30 - O’neal Suire - "Un petit bonhomme"

01:27:48 - Geneva Nunez - "Madame Baptiste" (version of Madame Bosso)

Media Type: 
Audio
Collection: 
Blanchet, Catherine
Subject: 
Louisiana, French, Ballads, Singing, Folk Songs
Creator: 
Catherine Blanchet
Recording date: 
Friday, October 16, 1953
Coverage Spatial: 
Abbeville, LA and Forked Island, LA
Publisher: 
Catherine Blanchet / Center for Louisiana Studies
Rights Usage: 
All rights reserved
Language: 
English
French
Meta Information
Duration: 
01:29:27
Cataloged Date: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Digitized Date: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Original Format: 
7 inch tape
Digital Format: 
WAV
Bit Depth: 
24 bit
Sampling Rate: 
192 kHz
Storage Location: 
Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore - Drawer 2