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

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

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Street Cries Vegetable peddlers 0:49
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102
Let God's Moon Alone Dora Alexander 1:13
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103
Times Done Changed Dora Alexander 1:29
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104
Street Cries Percy Randolph 1:15
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105
What A Friend We Have in Jesus (musical saw) / My Old Kentucky Home / When the Saints Go Marching In (medley) James Mitchell 3:13
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106
Shine Percy Randolph 1:07
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107
Liebestraum Frank Amica 4:14
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108
Shoe Shine - Hambone Shoeshine boy 1:06
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109
Mean Old Frisco Snooks Eaglin 3:08
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201
To-wa-bac-a-way - The Indian Race Mardi Gras Indians with Joe DeGrait 3:38
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202
Red White and Blue Got the Golden Band Mardi Gras Indians 5:13
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203
On Mardi Gras Day Hank 3:49
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204
Uptown Dances - Bourbon Street Parade A brass band 3:23
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Parade of the Krewe of Momus, The / When the Saints Go Marching In / Margie / South Rampart Street Parade (medley) A parade with brass bands 2:42

Album Info

Catalog Number(s)

FW02461, FA 2461

Year(s) Released

1958

Label/Collection

Folkways Records

Genre(s)

Jazz & Ragtime

Country(s)

United States

Culture Group(s)

African American

Instrument(s)

Drum; Guitar; Musical saw; Shoe-shine cloth; Tambourine (Drum)

Credit(s)

Moses Asch - Producer
 Samuel Charters - Recorder
 Ronald Clyne - Designer
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