The Music of New Orleans, Vol. 1: The Music of the Streets: The Music of Mardi Gras

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.

Track Listing

101	Street Calls: Watermelons, Bananas Vegetable peddlers	00:49
102	Let God's Moon Alone Dora Alexander	01:13
103	Times Done Changed Dora Alexander	01:29
104	Street Calls: Watermelons, Blackberries, Peaches Percy Randolph	01:15
105	Musical Saw: What a Friend We Have in Jesus / My Old Kentucky Home / When the Saints Go Marching In James Mitchell	03:13
106	Shine Percy Randolph	01:07
107	Liebestraum Frank Amica	04:14
108	Hambone Shoeshine boy	01:06
109	Mean Old Frisco Snooks Eaglin	03:08
201	To-Wa-Bac-A-Way - The Indian Race Mardi Gras Indians: Members of 2nd Ward Hunters, Yellow Pocahontus, 3rd Ward Terrors, White Eagles	03:38
202	Red White and Blue Got the Golden Band Mardi Gras Indians: Members of 2nd Ward Hunters, Yellow Pocahontus, 3rd Ward Terrors, White Eagles	05:13
203	On Mardi Gras Day Street drummer named Hank	03:49
204	Bourbon Street Parade A brass band	03:23
205	The Parade of the Krewe of Momus / When the Saints Go Marching in / Margie / South Rampart Street Parade A parade with brass bands	02:42