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Interview and Musical Performance by Dennis McGee

Mon, 04/22/2024 - 1:55pm -- Chris Segura

00:00 - La valse de Vacher - Dennis sings a phrase and then plays it on fiddle(Cowboy Waltz);
01:10 - Arkansas Traveler;
02:47 - Tolam Waltz;
04:26 - Touts les deux pour la même;
06:23 - La valse qui finit dans le coin de la maison (Twin fiddles);
09:55 - (Pascal’s egret) Figure out the name that Dennis used for it;
11:25 - Valse de Couteau;
12:55 - Reel des Deshotels
13:45 - You’ve Got To See Mama Every Night;
14:55 - Casey Jones
16:10 - Nobody’s Darling but Mine
18:05 - Unnamed tune
19:15 - Unnamed tune

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Interview with Dennis McGee; Musical Performance by Marc Savoy

Mon, 04/22/2024 - 1:47pm -- Chris Segura

00:00 - Dennis talks about playing tunes on the violin, talks about how most people can’t play the tunes he plays. He mentions that he was around 16 years old when he played his first dance.
01:20 - Dennis talks about when he was gifted his first violin. He played his first dance 3 months after he started playing;
02:30 - Mentions he was a farmer in his younger days. Started fishing around the time he married his third wife. He likes to fish for Spotted Catfish;
03:30 - Talks about meeting Sady Courville for the first time;

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Interview and Musical Performance by Dennis McGee

Mon, 04/22/2024 - 1:37pm -- Chris Segura

00:00 - Quoi Faire;
01:45 - Love Bridge Waltz;
03:22 - Twin Fiddles - Love Bridge Waltz;
04:48 - La valse à pénitencier de Bâton Rouge;
06:51 - La valse qui fait du mal;
09:00 - La reel des Courvilles / Danse Carré;
10:40 - La valse à Pop;
13:23 - Marcantel Reel;
15:10 - Reel des Deshotels, Dennis says that he has trouble remembering the names to all of the tunes;
17:10 - La patate;
18:50 - La valse des Reeds;
21:23 - Two step de Crapaud;
23:03 - Jolie Blonde;
24:20 - Touts les deux pour la même;

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Gumbo and Jam at Nonc Allie Young's House; Interview with Sady Courville; Musical Performance by Dennis McGee

Mon, 04/22/2024 - 1:34pm -- Chris Segura

00:00 - Valse de Jolly Roger (D.L. Menard on vocals);
04:20 - Reel Faché;
05:10 - Sady talks about Amédé Ardoin, he’d play African-American house dances with Amédé - He said that’s where he learned to second. Sady says that Amédé moved from the Eunice area to Crowley in the 30s. Amédé was well liked and respected;
07:00 - Sady talks about a wedding dance that they played together with Dennis in Oberlin in 1928. They played all night long;
07:45 - Sady saw Amédé right before he died. He was walking down the street carrying his accordion;

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Live Performance in London, England - Eddie LeJeune and D.L. Menard

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 4:38pm -- Chris Segura

00:45 - The Water Pump;
04:20 - ‘Tit gallop pour Mamou;
07:25 - En bas du chêne vert;
12:55 - Lacassine Special;
16:15 - Teche Special;
19:20 - J’ai laissé ma famille dans les misères;
22:20 - La porte d'en arrière;
27:40 - Lonesome Whistle;
31:00 - Wildwood Flower;
35:00 - Bayou Pon Pon;
39:20 - When I Met You;
43:00 - J’ai étais au bal

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Live Performance in London, England by Harry Simoneaux, Belton Richard, Eddie LeJeune and D.L. Menard

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 4:27pm -- Chris Segura

Concert with Harry Simoneaux, Belton Richard, Eddie LeJeune, D.L. Menard;
00:45 - See Ya Later Alligator;
04:20 - Walkin With Mr. Lee;

Belton Richard’s Set;
06:55 - Bosco Stomp;
10: 25 - Paradis des musicians;
15:20 - Oh yaille yaille;
18:30 - Lucille;
22:55 - Les flammes d’enfer;
26:00 - Une autre soir ennuient;
29:45 - Laisse la musique jouer;
33:15 - I’ll Have To Forget You
37:50 - Sugar Bee

Eddie Lejeune and D.L. Menard;
46:00 - The Water Pump

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Live Performance by Johnnie Allan in Vienna, Austria

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 4:10pm -- Chris Segura

00:00 - Show intro, Johnnie starts after first song;
00:45 - Harry Simoneaux - Instrumental tune on saxophone;
07:00 - Lucille;
11:00 - J’ai envie de danser;
14:20 - Please Accept My Love;
18:30 - Shake Little Baby
22:05 - I’m a Hog for You, Baby
27:10 - You Got Me Whistlin’
31:45 - Sugar Bee
36:40 - Family Rules
41:45 - Alligator Walk

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