Mardi Gras Songs

Eat popeye s fried chicken or red beans and rice and listen to mardi gras music.

Mardi gras songs. Share share what do you do when you re waiting for a parade. Mardi gras music in new orleans. From the album rock n roll gumbo. John music from your desktop or mobile device.

Fess himself even cut an earlier version called mardi gras in new orleans this is the one you want however the king of all mardi gras songs the one with the breathtaking piano intro the impossibly realized whistling solo and god s own shuffle beat. Claude and dumaine circa 1895. Stream 42 mardi gras playlists including new orleans professor longhair and dr. The abitians prettiest girl on mardi gras from the shamefully overlooked album new mardi gras classics this song concerns the singer s devout wish to be the best dressed lady who wears rhinestones and sequins and gets everybody whistling.

Almost from the beginning the gumbo of french canadian american and caribbean cultures have influenced the music of new orleans and its mardi gras. Someone was asking about the painting. A mardi gras run song from mamou louisiana. The town of mamou louisiana has a very different version of la chanson de mardi gras.

Find the latest in mardi gras music at last fm. Yesterday i wrote about the tradition of the mardi gras run in southern louisiana usa. Each town has it s own version of the mardi gras song or la chanson de mardi gras. Here are six of our favorites we tried to narrow it down to five but couldn t do it.

That is a painting of the corner of st. Top six mardi gras songs of all time. Since then mardi gras and new orleans have gone hand in hand. The singer of course is a guy with a frog croak of a voice.

The musical elements of the holiday come from the slew of cultures that predominate the city. There are many different versions of this song.