ALLONS A LAFAYETTE
Created on 21/11/2005Latest update on 26/04/2023
Artist: Joseph & Cléoma Falcon
Author: Joseph Falcon
Label: Columbia
Year: 1928
Husband and wife (see also: Mes Yeux bleus) with the very first cajun record. For the first time an accordion took the lead (instead of a fiddle), while they sang in cajun French, another first (apart from James Roach's 1925 recording of Gué Gué Solingaie). Reissued on Arhoolie comp J'Ai été au bal Vol. 1.
Covers:
- 1929:
Dennis McGee & Ernest Fruge [as Jeunes gens campagnard; same tune]
- 1946:
- 1958:
Leroy Castille [as Lafayette, instrumental; he is from there]
- 1960:
Randy & The Rockets [as Let's Do The Cajun Twist]
- 1961:
- 1973:
- 1977:
- 1987:
- 1988:
- 1988:
- 1988:
- 1997:
- 2001:
Captain Gumbo [top 30 NL]
