Carnival Knowledge
The music of Mardi Gras across the Americas, with glances at the history and customs surrounding it, featuring the sounds of New Orleans' famed celebration: brass bands, parades, Mardi Gras Indians, Creole cowboys and more. Music includes Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Ry Cooder, and Beau Jocque.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Do Whatcha Wanna - Pt. 3 Rebirth Brass Band
Mardi Gras Party, Rhino
Louisiana Percy Mayfield
Creole Kings of New Orleans, Speciality Records
New Orleans Elvis Presley
King Creole, RCA
Jockamo AKA Iko-Iko Larry Williams
Creole Kings of New Orleans, Speciality Records
Big Chief Rebirth Brass Band
Hey Mardi Gras, Easy Disc
New-Way-Pocky-Way Young Guardians of the Flame
New Way Pocky Way, First Tribe
Instrumental: Mardi Gras Zydeco Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas
Hey Mardi Gras, Easy Disc
La Danse de Mardi Gras Steve Riley
Hey Mardi Gras, Easy Disc
Beau's Mardi Gras Beau Jocque
Hey Mardi Gras, Easy Disc
Mascarade Folk Research Center of St. Lucia
Musical Traditions of St. Lucia, Folkways
Quadrille Figure # 6 Blinky and the Roadmasters
Crucian Scratch Band Music, Rounder
F .D.R. in Trinidad Ry Cooder
Into the Purple Valley, Warner
The Road Lord Kitchener
Volume 1 1959-1964: Ska's the Limit, Island
Meet de Boys on the Battlefront Wild Tchoupitoulas
New Orleans Party Classics, Rhino
Instrumental: (Somebody Got) Soul, Soul, Soul Wild Magnolias
The Wild Magnolias, Polydor
SEGMENT: Mardi Gras Indians
Indian Red Donald Harrison, Jr.
Indian Blues, Candid
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Longhair's Blues-Rhumba Professor Longhair
New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
Mardi Gras Mambo The Meters
Mardi Gras in the New Orleans II, Mardi Gras Records
Mambo # 8 Perez Prado
A Carnival of Cuban Music: Routes to Rhythm Vol 1, Rounder
Siboney Xavier Cugat and Bing Crosby
A Carnival of Cuban Music: Routes to Rhythm Vol 1, Rounder
Bamboula (Danse des negres) Amiram Rigai
American Piano Music, Folkways
Mardi Gras in New Orleans Professor Longhair
New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
Instrumental: New Second Line Olympia Brass
Mardi Gras in the New Orleans II, Mardi Gras Records
SEGMENT: Mardi Gras Parades
Street Parade Earl King
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, MG Records
Kooks on Parade Stanton Moore
All Kooked Out, Fog City
Instrumental: Cuando Vuelvo A Tu Lado Alfredo Rodriguez
Cuba Linda, Hannibal
La Fiesta Campesina Los Pleneros de la 21
Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, Shanachie
Maman Rosin Boudreax Beausoleil
Mardi Gras Party, Rounder
Hot Tamale Baby Marcia Ball
Hot Tamale Baby, Rounder
Tourist Leggo King Short Shirt
Ghetto Vibes, Charlies Records
Little Liza Jane Dirty Dozen Brass Band
New Orleans Party Classics
SEGMENT: Clean Up Crew
End Bed: Tee-Nah-Nah Tuts Washington
Louisiana Spice, Rounder