Cleveland Crochet & The Sugar Bees – Hillbilly Ramblers and Sugar Bees (CD)

Description

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.

• – Disc 1 –
• 1Deedle-E-Deedle-D-Da (Keep Knockin’)
• 2Big Boy Waltz
• 3Sha Meon Waltz (Chere Meon)
• 4Midnight Blues (Blues de Minuit)
• 5Sugar Bee (Goldband 1106)
• 6Sugar Bee (Alt. Edit / Early Fade-Out)
• 7Drunkard’s Dream
• 8Sweet Thing
• 9Hound Dog Baby
• 10Come Back Home Little Girl (Midnight Blues- Goldband 1120)
• 11Midnight Blues (Long Long Note on My Door) (Alt. Take – Lyric 1001)
• 12Telephone Port Arthur
• 13Kaw-Liga (Goldband 1128)
• 14Kaw-Liga (Alt. Take)
• 15La Valse de Soldat (Soldier’s Waltz)
• 16Boss Cajun (Mayou de Cajun)
• 17La Valse de Chagrin
• 18Coming Home
• 19Not My Fault
• 20Waltz of a Broken Heart
• – Disc 2 –
• 1Good Morning Blues
• 2Good Morning Blues (Alt. Edit)
• 3Wedding Day (Demain Moi Je Va M’marier)
• 4Playmates
• 5La Branche de Mon Murier (Waltz of the Mulberry Limb)
• 6Mariez-Vous Donc Jamais
• 7Forgot I Was Married
• 8My Little Cabbage
• 9Time and Time Again
• 10Three Year Waltz
• 11Rambler’s Lonely Dream
• 12Tears of Sorrow
• 13Listen to My Heart
• 14Country Women
• 15Sugar Bee
• 16Come Back Home Little Girl
• 17Hey! Boss Man
• 18Sweet Lick