Aldus Roger (February 10, 1915 – April 4, 1999) was an American
Cajun accordion
A Cajun accordion (in Cajun French: ''accordéon''), also known as a squeezebox, is single-row diatonic button accordion used for playing Cajun and Creole music.
History
Many different accordions were developed in Europe throughout the 19th c ...
player in southwest
Louisiana
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, best known for his accordion skills, and television music program.
Early life
Aldus Roger was born in
Carencro, Louisiana
Carencro (; historically ) is a city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is a suburb of the nearby city of Lafayette. The population was 7,526 at the 2010 census, up from 6,120 in 2000; at the 2020 census, its population was 9, ...
and learned to play the Cajun accordion at age eight.
[ Savoy 1984, p. 194.] His father, Francis Roger, didn't want him to play accordion; however, he would borrow it and play in the barn.
Lafayette Playboys
Roger led the Lafayette Playboys for over twenty years.
During the late 1950s and 1960s, he hosted his own music program ''Passe Partout'' on
KLFY-TV
KLFY-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with CBS. Its secondary subchannel serves as an owned-and-operated station of The CW Plus as it is owned by CW majority owner Nexstar Media Group. Th ...
10 in Lafayette. Among his many recordings are "KLFY Waltz," "Channel 10 Two Step," "Mardi Gras Dance," and "Lafayette Two Step (1964)."
He also recorded a
Cajun French
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version of
Hank Williams
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country-and- western hit "
Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Hank Williams that was first released in July 1952. It is Williams' most recorded song. Named for a Creole and Cajun dish, jambalaya, it spawned numero ...
" (which Williams in turn had based on the Cajun tune "Grand Texas").
He recorded several albums, one with Rounder Records entitled "Aldus Roger & the Lafayette Playboys - Legend Series" in 1998 and another with La Louisiane Records entitled "Plays the French Music of South Louisiana" in 1993.
The Aldus Roger song "Les Haricots Sont Pas Salés" (translated: "The Snap Beans Ain't Salty") is covered by Ambrose Thibodeaux in some of ''
The Sims
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''.
See also
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List of Notable People Related to Cajun Music
This is a list of notable Cajun musicians, Cajun music instrument makers, Cajun music folklorists, Cajun music historians, and Cajun music activists.
List of Cajun musicians
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History of Cajun Music
References
Bibliography
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1915 births
1999 deaths
Cajun accordionists
Feature Records artists
People from Carencro, Louisiana
20th-century American musicians
20th-century accordionists
Cajun musicians