PROGRAM # 2007, Music for Mardi Gras (First aired on Tues., 2/12/02)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Rebirth Brass Band |
New Sounds Live, BAM, April 1994 |
Mardi Gras In New Orleans [6:00] |
Rebirth has several dozen CDs to its credit, availabe in stores ** and online*. |
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Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias |
New Sounds Live, BAM, April 1994 |
Golden Crown [5:00] |
Wild Magnolias recorded this song on their CD I'm Back At Carnival Time., available in some stores, and online*. The Wild Tchoupitoulas also recorded it on their otherwise untitled CD, also available online. |
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Women of the Calabash |
New Sounds Live, Merkin Hall, January 1989 |
My Big Chief (Has a Golden Crown) [5:00] |
Not commercially available. Their CD The Kwanzaa Album is available at Amazon.com or www.kwanzaaalbum.com |
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Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias |
New Sounds Live, BAM, April 1994 |
Handa Wanda [9:00] |
The Wild Magnolias have recorded this on the CD Mardi Gras In New Orleans, Vol. 1, on the Mardi Gras label. Available at CDNow.com |
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A. Leroy |
Private tape |
Handa Wanda [9:00] |
Not commercially available. |
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Zachary Richard |
Mardi Gras Mambo |
Handa Wanda [5:00] |
Rounder Records, available from www.rounder.com or other online sources* |
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Henry Butler |
Live, WNYC, November 1989 |
Mardi Gras In New Orleans [3:30] |
Professor Longhair recorded this song numerous times; it's readily available. Butler has several CDs available; this song is not on them |
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Rebirth Brass Band |
New Sounds Live, BAM, April 1994 |
When The Saints Come Marchin' In, excerpt [1:30] |
See above. |
*, ** Find the recordings you've heard - go to the New Sounds Recordings Information page
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