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The Music of New Orleans Volume 1

The Music of New Orleans Volume 1 (Folkways FW02461)

The Music of New Orleans Volume 1
The Music of the Streets / The Music of Mardi Gras
Various Artists

Folkways Records FW02461 (LP, USA, 1958)
Topic Records 12T53 (LP, UK, 1959)
Smithsonian Folkways FW02461 (CD/download, USA, 2007)

 The Music of New Orleans Volume 1 (Topic 12T53)

This fascinating collection of music from the streets of New Orleans was recorded between 1954 and 1958, and includes an inspiring variety of material, from vegetable peddlers' street cries to the musical saw and brass bands, from a shoeshine boy's hambone to Sister Dora Alexander's impassioned Russia, Let God's Moon Alone, written the day after Russia launched a satellite.

Recorded by Samuel Barclay Charters;
Produced by Moses Asch;
Design by Ronald Clyne

Liner notes (PDF file) at Smithsonian Folkways

Tracks

Side 1: Music of the Streets Side 2: Music of Mardi Gras
  1. Vegetable peddlers: Street Cries (0.49)
  2. Dora Alexander: Let God's Moon Alone (1.13)
  3. Dora Alexander: Time Done Changed (1.29)
  4. Percy Randolph: Street Cries (1.15)
  5. James Mitchell musical saw: What a Friend We Have in Jesus / My Old Kentucky Home / When the Saints Go Marching In medley (3.13)
  6. Percy Randolph: Shine (1.07)
  7. Frank Amica guitar: Liebestraum (4.14)
  8. Shoeshine boy: Hambone (1.06)
  9. Snooks Eaglin: Mean Old Frisco (1.06)
  1. Mardi Gras Indians with Joe DeGrait: To-wa-bac-a-way / The Indian Racs (3.38)
  2. Mardi Gras Indians: Red White and Blue Got the Golden Band (5.13)
  3. Hank: On Mardi Gras Day (3.49)
  4. A brass band: Uptown Dances / Bourbon Street Parade (3.49)
  5. A parade with brass bands: The parade of the Krewe of Momus / When the Saints Go Marching In / Margie / Souch Rampart Street Parade medley (2.42)

> Folk Music > Records > The Music of New Orleans Volume 2

The Music of New Orleans Volume 2

The Music of New Orleans Volume 2
Music of the Eureka Brass Band
The Eureka Brass Band

Folkways Records FW02462 (LP, USA, 1958)
Topic Records 12T54 (LP, UK, never issued)
Smithsonian Folkways FW02462 (CD/download, USA, 2007)

> Folk Music > Records > The Music of New Orleans Volume 3

The Music of New Orleans Volume 3

The Music of New Orleans Volume 3
Music of the Dance Halls
Various Artists

Folkways Records FW02463 (LP, USA, 1958)
Topic Records 12T55 (LP, UK, 1959)
Smithsonian Folkways FW02463 (CD/download, USA, 2007)

> Folk Music > Records > The Music of New Orleans Volume 4

The Music of New Orleans Volume 4

The Music of New Orleans Volume 4
The Birth of Jazz
Various Artists

Folkways Records FW02464 (LP, USA, 1959)
Smithsonian Folkways FW02464 (CD/download, USA, 2007)

> Folk Music > Records > The Music of New Orleans Volume 5

The Music of New Orleans Volume 5

The Music of New Orleans Volume 5
New Orleans Jazz: The Flowering
Various Artists

Folkways Records FW02465 (LP, USA, 1959)
Smithsonian Folkways FW02465 (CD/download, USA, 2007)