Starting in the late 1950's, Floyd Soileau established and ran a whole mess of record labels out of Ville Platte, Louisiana. Initially he only recorded Cajun tunes, but soon branched out into virtually every kind of music made in the region, at least in theory often consigning individual labels to specific styles. Maison de Soul was his label for R&B/Zydeco recordings, although Clifton Chenier also recorded a number of sides for his Bayou imprint.
As far as I know Floyd's Record Store is still open in Ville Platte, but it's geared towards tourism, bills itself as the oldest record store in the state, and carries various sorts of Cajun™ related items. I think you can still go in there and buy a mixed box of 100 Jin, Swallow, and later Maison de Soul 45's for $30 [be very careful what you buy on ebay, these are new pressings which individually retail for slightly more than $1].
Anyway, this is one of the older Maison de Soul issues. As Martin Lawrie from the Soul Generation site says concerning older releases versus newer issues, "I have found that there is a simple rule to this record label - anything with a label that looks like this = BUY, and anything with a label that looks more comical and simpliefied = DONT BUY!".
Believe me, the man speaks the gospel truth. The stuff produced in the eighties is universally horrible, I don't own a single example....and I'll gladly give you $20 for anything on the label pressed earlier.
Al Prince? I don't know a thing about him. Sucks, but it's the truth.
Hope ya'll enjoy.....
Excellent tune. This is the first time I've heard it. I love the whole genre of songs introducing or trying to start a dance craze. Great stuff. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteOn another note, I finally got to listen to your "C'est Pour Cleoma" compilation. Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for putting that massive collection together. You weren't kidding when you said it was a big file. I nearly fell out of my chair when I opened it and found 66 songs within! And, as it turned out, not a bad tune in the bunch.
Hey! Still loving the blog! I've been posting some vids on YouTube of some 45s of mine that I've recently ripped....
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That's cool Colby....I'll check it out.
ReplyDeleteDamn Colby, wish I had a copy of "Funky Pete". That's maybe the third copy I've ever seen.
ReplyDeleteAnd Colby, bless you for that clip of Dave Bartholomew.
ReplyDeleteMan, I was so in shock I barely got my phone working to record it Bartholomew.
ReplyDeletei got both my Guitar Ray 45s locally, one at Euclid, one at Domino....
Colby....yeah, I got my copy of "Patty Cake Shake" at Domino. I haven't been down to check out the pink place yet just cause I either haven't been in town or not feeling too well for the past several months. It's good?
ReplyDeleteThis one doesn't want to download for some reason, but all the other recent stuff sounds great. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteJon....The link works just fine for me. Perhaps you should try again later.
ReplyDeleteSo odd -- the file either comes up as zero bytes or I get a page with the quicktime logo. And every other file is fine. Oh well, I'll try again tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteSorry Jon...it's still working fine for me. If you continue to have problems and really want the song, email me at singbones@yahoo.com, and I'll see that you get a copy. Ok?
ReplyDeletethanks -- I'll get back to you on that!
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