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10 Oct 14 - 03:47 PM (#3667902) Subject: Origins: Cajun Love Song: based on traditional? From: GUEST,Dm3ntd I've been wondering this for quite some time: at some point during Disney's Princess and the Frog, the character Ray sings a couple of lines which are the beginning of Leon Russell's Cajun Love Song: Your mama catch a little fish, your papa catch two Now, Randy Newman (an American national treasure, my opinion, and the film score composer for the film) might have just been familiar with the Leon Russell song, or he might have known a Cajun traditional song that Russell (no mean songwriter himself) might have based the song on. Wikipedia says that Newman lived as a small child in the New Orleans area and spent summers there into his pre-teens, so he might have picked up something there, but I would expect that if there is a traditional precursor, it would show up *somehow* in a Google or DigiTrad search, and if it does, I can't find it. Additionally, it's not like the Disney organization to just grab a piece of somebody else's (Russell's) work and use it in a film; their track record says they use original stuff, and Newman would certainly been capable of coming up with something on his own. Anybody got a clue here? Not me; I've been told I couldn't get a clue standing in a clue field drenched in clue musk and singing the clue mating song. |
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10 Oct 14 - 04:11 PM (#3667909) Subject: RE: Origins: Cajun Love Song: based on traditional? From: maeve Just so we start from the same version: Cajun Love Song by Leon Russell (born Claude Russell Bridges) Whoa, mama catch a little fishy, papa catch two Well, back in the bayou it's-a fishin' time Workin' together on a bottle of wine We'll go down to Thibodeaux tonight Chorus: Go roun', go roun', lil' Alice blue gown We'll soon be together on the bayou sundown We'll jaw jambalaya, and sing all night long Me and my baby and a Cajun love song Now I can remember when Alice first came From Lake Charles to see me at Pontchartrain But my heart beats slower when she not around The best things in life not the same Sometimes I get lonely and I'm hurtin' inside When my Alice can't understand Like a dancer I saw in New Orlean' one time She makes me feel just like a man http://www.lyrics.net/lyric/994073 |
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10 Oct 14 - 04:14 PM (#3667912) Subject: RE: Origins: Cajun Love Song: based on traditional? From: maeve Here is Cajun Love Song sung by Leon Russell: Cajun Love Song - Leon Russell (youtube) Now the experts can chime in! |
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10 Oct 14 - 04:33 PM (#3667915) Subject: RE: Origins: Cajun Love Song: based on traditional? From: Jeri The soundtrack to "The Princess and the Frog" has "Cajun Love Song", "written by Leon Russell". So Disney didn't "grab" it if they credited Russell and pay royalties. |
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11 Oct 14 - 10:54 AM (#3668103) Subject: RE: Origins: Cajun Love Song: based on traditional? From: GUEST,Stim This song seems to reference three other songs, one of which is Hank Williams "Jambalaya", "Alice Blue Gown" by Harry Tierney (inspired by Alice Roosevelt Longworth's favorite color), and "Three Little Fishies" made famous by Kay Kyser. |
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11 Oct 14 - 01:13 PM (#3668137) Subject: RE: Origins: Cajun Love Song: based on traditional? From: Q (Frank Staplin) Spelling- the Louisiana town is Thibodaux, the parish seat of Lafourche. Like Stim, I see reference to those tunes. Nothing to suggest traditional origin. |
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06 Dec 18 - 07:54 PM (#3965174) Subject: RE: Origins: Cajun Love Song: based on traditional? From: GUEST My Tata, Irvin Verret wrote and sang the original version of A Cajun Live Song. Here was from Broussard, Louisiana....and that gentlemen is the truth! |