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

Accession No.: 
BL1-008

***Note: This tape was in awful condition, and it was almost impossible to get a good pass on it***

BL1-006 contains the same performances from Abbeville Dairy Day 1953

00:00:05 - Introduction

00:01:56 - Annie Catherine Broussard - "La fête de Dairy Day"

Raywood Morvant

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

00:08:53 - Herman Babineaux - "Papillon"

00:10:24 - Daisy Foster - "J’ai étais au bal"

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

00:14:15 - Harry Touchet - "Danser Colinda"

00:16:30 - Rita Cecile Landry - "Frère Jacques" (00:15:30) - Tape mistracks badly. Restarts song at around (00:16:30)

00:17:38 - Amy Dean Meaux - "Savais-vous planter des choux"

Burton LeMaire

00:19:52 - "La marseillaise"
00:20:48 - "Saute Crapaud" (fragment)
00:21:18 - "Frère Jacques"

00:22:11 - James Broussard - "Je m’ai fait un nouveau beau"

00:24:16 - Amy Dean Meaux - "Quand j'étais petite"

00:27:55 - Catherine Blanchet - Winner's announcement

Side 2 - Adult Division - Oct 17, 1953

Raywood Morvant

00:30:36 - "J’ai passé devant ta porte"
00:32:10 - "La cravate"

Joe “Nonc Joe” Harrington

00:35:22 - "Ne pleure pas, vierge de France"
00:38:18 - "La caille et la perdrix"

Ulysses Broussard

00:45:28 - "Madame ??, donne-moi ta fille". Tape mistracks and restarts
00:48:03 - "Et ou c’est qu’elle est, la malheureuse"

Caesar Vincent

00:49:50 - "O le printemps de Jules Bitière" (sp) (Tobie Lapière)
00:54:26 - "C’est une vieille"

Lelia Labauve

00:57:33 - "Je m’ai fait un nouveau beau"
00:59:35 - "J’ai passé dessous le pommier"
00:56:30 - "Bonjour belle Rosine"

01:03:05 - Andre Pommier - "Allons à Lafayette"

01:05:13 - Mme. Joe Falcon - "Jolie Brun"

01:06:38 - Joe Falcon - "Allons à Lafayette"

Mme. Sylvan Romero

01:08:30 - "Mes trois camarades"
01:10:30 - "Les maragoins"
01:11:06 - "La petite poule caille"

01:12:10 - Clevinis Touchet - "Mon aimable catin"

01:14:45 - Alan Richard - "Dans la Louisiane"

01:16:27 - Roy Theriot - "Les maragoins"

01:22:23 - Caesar Vincent - "Fais do-do, petite"

01:24:00 - Winner's announcement

01:25:30 - Family recordings begin

Unidentified child singing with Ed Blanchet
Tape mistracks, corrects at (01:36:20)

01:39:05 - "Happy Birthday"
01:41:00 - "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"

Media Type: 
Audio
Collection: 
Blanchet, Catherine
Subject: 
Louisiana, French, Ballads, Singing, Folk Songs
Creator: 
Catherine Blanchet
Recording date: 
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Coverage Spatial: 
Abbeville, LA
Publisher: 
Catherine Blanchet / Center for Louisiana Studies
Rights Usage: 
All rights reserved
Language: 
English
French
Meta Information
Duration: 
01:42:40
Cataloged Date: 
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Digitized Date: 
Wednesday, April 22, 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