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'''PERRODIN TWO STEP.''' AKA and see “[[Ardoin Two-Step]],” "[[Two-Step des Perrodins]]." Cajun, Two-Step (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Francois): AA'BB' (Reiner & Anick). The song is named for the Perrodin family; according to Marc Savoy the Perrodins were two brothers who requested the tune frequently at dances. It was first recorded in New Orleans in 1929 by Angélas LeJeune (b.c. 1890-), Dennis McGee and Ernest Frugé. As the story goes, LeJeune, accompanied by McGee and Frugé, won an accordion contest sponsored by a weekly newspaper, the '''Opelousas Herald''', the grand prize of which was a trip to the city to record for Brunswick Records. John Lomax, working for the WPA, made a field recording [http://www.lomax1934.com/perrodin-two-step.html] of the tune played by Creole accordion player Oakdale Carrière in the Angola State Prison, Louisiana, in July, 1934. A related tune is Merlin Fontenot's "[[Pas de Deux a Elia]]," according to Raymond Francois. See also versions of "Perrodin Two-Step" recorded under the titled "Round Up Hop" (1937, by Miller's Merrymakers) and "[[Jolly Boys' Breakdown]]" (by the Jolly Boys of Lafayette). Wallace "Cheese" Read's "[[Mamou Breakdown]]" is also considered a version. 
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''Source for notated version'': Cajun fiddler Wallace "Cheese" Read (b. Eunice, La., 1924) [Reiner & Anick]; Raymond Francois (La.) [Francois].  
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''Printed sources'': Francois ('''Yé Yaille Chère!'''), 1990; pp. 248-249. Reiner & Anick ('''Old Time Fiddling across America'''), 1989; p. 155.
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''Recorded sources'': <font color=teal>Arhoolie 5021, Wallace "Cheese" Read - "Cajun House Party" (1979). Brunswick 369 (78 RPM), Angelas LeJeune, Dennis McGee and Ernest Frugé (1929). Folkways Records FW08361, "Traditional Cajun Fiddle: Instruction by Dewey Balfa and Tracy Schwarz" (1978). La Louisianne Records, LLCD-1003, Jimmy Breaux - "Un Tit Peu Plus Cajun." Yazoo Records, Angélas LeJeune - "Times Ain't Like They Used to be: Early American Rural Music, vol. 4" (2006).

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See also listing at:<br>
See/hear the tune played by Kevin Wimmer, Steve Riley & Chris Stafford on youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DULF4JucVPE]<br>
Hear the Balfa/Schwartz recording on dailymotion.com [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2s48sw]<br>
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