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The song is an old tune about a mysterious creature, women or a couple of dogs, Hip and Taiaud, who prowl about stealing things off the farm, engendering the ire of the farmer which makes them return the items. Origin of the phrase is suggested to belong to the Cajuns of the Cajun prairies.
He highlighted Stivale's effective use of Deleuze and Guattari's theories to analyze Cajun cultural practices and praises the book for its rich, informative presentation of Cajun music and dance. Conley noted that the book manages to protect Cajun culture from becoming an inert object of history and folklore by consistently destabilizing ...
Cajun folklorist Barry Jean Ancelet has called this the most played and recorded Cajun song ever, selling over 500,000 copies in 1962 alone. [11] It has been covered by dozens of Cajun and zydeco bands and by other francophone artists such as Kate & Anna McGarrigle .
Some of the hit singles produced by Soileau include Rockin' Sidney's "My Toot Toot," Keith Frank's "Movin' On Up," and Don Fontenot's "Ride the Donkey." [5] He has always encouraged his artists to compose new songs to record, and his Flat Town Music Company now publishes over 2800 songs, a majority of which are Cajun, swamp pop, and zydeco songs.
When bands like the Balfa Brothers, Octa Clark and Hector Duhon, and the black Creole band Bois-Sec Ardoin and Canray began to appear and perform at prestigious national folk festivals like the Newport Folk Festival, the University of Chicago Folk Festival, and the National Folklife Festival, they inspired renewed interest in Louisiana in Cajun ...
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"Donkey" is a song recorded by American country music artist Jerrod Niemann. It was released in May 2014 as the second single from his album High Noon . The song was written by David Tolliver , Kyle Jacobs , and Fred Wilhelm.
Several musicians recorded the song. After 1957, Randy and The Rockets released the swamp pop song "Lets Do the Cajun Twist" using the same theme and melody. In 1990, a version by Dutch band Captain Gumbo reached No. 30 in the official Dutch music singles chart.