MARDI GRAS MAMBO

Created on 15/03/2001
Latest update on 17/09/2024

Artist: Jody Levens
Author: Lou Welsh/Frankie Adams
Label: Sapphire
Year: 1953

Local country singer, steel guitar included. Adams & Welsh both runned the label. Reissued on The Best Of Sapphire, part of The Legendary Labels Of Louisiana (Night Train International/Tuff City Records).

Covers:

1954:

Hawketts

1958:

Snooks Eaglin

1975:

Meters

1989:

Zachary Richard

1994:

Buckwheat Zydeco

1997:

Tom Shaka

2000:

Cubanismo

2001:

Fredy Omar

2004:

Bayou Mosquitos

The Hawketts were a college band from New Orleans with Art Neville, managed by DJ Jack The Cat (Ken Elliott) who changed a few words and cut it in the studio of the Jung Hotel in N.O., showed the result to Phil Chess in Chicago (by telephone), who then released it. Poppa Stoppa, another N.O. DJ, turned it into a local standard.

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