Description
Release Date: 2021
Label: Bear Family
Track List
Disc: 1
- 1 Deedle-E-Deedle-D-Da (Keep Knockin’)
- 2 Big Boy Waltz
- 3 Sha Meon Waltz (Chere Meon)
- 4 Midnight Blues (Blues de Minuit)
- 5 Sugar Bee (Goldband 1106)
- 6 Sugar Bee (Alt. Edit / Early Fade-Out)
- 7 Drunkard’s Dream
- 8 Sweet Thing
- 9 Hound Dog Baby
- 10 Come Back Home Little Girl (Midnight Blues- Goldband 1120)
- 11 Midnight Blues (Long Long Note on My Door) (Alt. Take – Lyric 1001)
- 12 Telephone Port Arthur
- 13 Kaw-Liga (Goldband 1128)
- 14 Kaw-Liga (Alt. Take)
- 15 La Valse de Soldat (Soldier’s Waltz)
- 16 Boss Cajun (Mayou de Cajun)
- 17 La Valse de Chagrin
- 18 Coming Home
- 19 Not My Fault
- 20 Waltz of a Broken Heart
Disc: 2
- 1 Good Morning Blues
- 2 Good Morning Blues (Alt. Edit)
- 3 Wedding Day (Demain Moi Je Va M’marier)
- 4 Playmates
- 5 La Branche de Mon Murier (Waltz of the Mulberry Limb)
- 6 Mariez-Vous Donc Jamais
- 7 Forgot I Was Married
- 8 My Little Cabbage
- 9 Time and Time Again
- 10 Three Year Waltz
- 11 Rambler’s Lonely Dream
- 12 Tears of Sorrow
- 13 Listen to My Heart
- 14 Country Women
- 15 Hey! Boss Man
- 16 Sweet Lick
- 17 Sugar Bee
- 18 Come Back Home Little Girl
Notes
Long overdue: the complete recordings of Cajun fiddler Cleveland Crochet on Bear Family, including all surviving alternate versions and the originally unreleased masters.-In 1961, a Cajun song made it onto the Billboard pop charts for the first time: Sugar Bee climbed to #80.-These recordings were made between 1954 and 1963 for Folk-Star, Khoury’s, Goldband, Lyric and Swallow in Louisiana.