New Orleans! Songs about NO and the Mardi Gras. Post 'em here!

Battle Of New Orleans

http://www.youtube.com/v/payfcPZjwuM&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1

http://www.youtube.com/v/O6WD1yzQscE&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtgfz4L6Eq0

oh and Louis Armstrong to remind us why it mostly starts with him

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-jNH8A02qw

I love the Professor, may he rest in musical peace.

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun ...

Bake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd-x9H6lfMs


Bourbon blues on the street loose and complete
Under skies all smoky blue-green
I can Forksake the dixie dead shake
So we dance the sidewalk clean
My memory is muddy what's this river I'm in
New Orleans is sinking and I don't want to swim

Colonel Tom What's wrong? What's Going On
You can't tie yourself up for a deal
He said" Hey North you're south shut you big mouth
You gotta do what you feel is real."
Ain't got no picture postcards ain't go no souvenirs
My baby she don't know me when I'm thinking about those years

Pale as a light bulb hanging on a wire
Sucking up to someone just stoke the fire
Picking out the highlights of the scenery
Saw a little cloud looked a little like me

I had my hands in the river
My feet back up on the banks
Looked up to the Lord above and said hey man thanks
Sometimes I fell so good I gotta scream
She says Gordie baby I know exactly what you mean
She said, she said I swear to God she said

My memory is muddy what's this river I'm in
New Orleans is sinking and I don't want to swim

follow with Al Johnson's "Carnival Time"

then to Wild Magnolias' "New Suit"

of course you gotta have "They All Ask For You" (Meters)

you must have Fess with "Go To The Mardi Gras"

and the night has to end with "If Ever I Cease To Love" sung by A J Loria.

these are my personal high point songs.

You didn't have an airshift at 'OZ (or 'TUL like I did), did you?

Factoid: Al Johnson is so closely identified with that one song that he is often called Al "Carnival Time" Johnson.

i see now that OZ is at the French Market... i'm from the days when it was upstairs from Tip's. and i loved Ernie K-Doe's program. "Mista Naugahyde!"

i will share with you my favorite TOOL moment... i think i was motoring on the I-10 service road between Causeway and Clearview, and listening to WTUL. i will never forget hearing this song, where the entire song was just a lengthy chant of the words, "Fist-Fcvker", over and over again, and laughing my @ss off so badly i had to pull over.

i only lived there for four years, but i made a lifetime out of it. i worked at Figaro, played in some bands, and became a lifelong acolyte of NOLA culture.

I only have an associates' myself.

It's not a difficult subject at all, as long as you meet the prerequisite (having a soul). Hell, people have been known to complete the introductory course over a long weekend! :bounce:

Mobile Mardi Gras celebration predates New Orleans'.

Mobile
They saw a swallow building his nest;
I guess they figured he knew best,
So they built a town around him
And they called it Mobile,
(WHERE'S THAT?) Alabama.

They took a swampland, heavy with stream,
They added people with a dream,
And that dream became a heaven
By the name of Mobile.

Pretty soon the town had grown
'Til they had a slide trombone,
And a man who played piano,
And a swallow who sang soprano.

No use your wondrin' where you should go.
It's on the Gulf of Mexico
Where the southern belles are ringin'
And the climate's ideal,
It's a honeysuckle heaven
By the name of Mobile. Yaahhhhhh!
:-)

Oh, right. :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC8_KGHbrOI

TA! :hug: :loveya:

This is a short story of a great album put out by Dr. John a few years ago about New Orleans. The title track starts at about 5 minutes in. It's really a great album. You should check it out sometime!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzbfWTcoE6c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnGiooofmXo
bad sound great song!