Annotation:Teche Special
TECHE SPECIAL. Cajun, Two-Step (4/4 time). USA, southwestern Louisiana. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The tune was recorded in 1948 by accordion player Iry LeJeune. Raymond Francois (1990) believes LeJeune played this song as early as 1944, but that it was based on traditional music learned from Angelas LeJeune. LeJeune was promoted by a man named Eddie Shuler who had a radio show on KPLC in Lake Charles. Shuler devoted fifteen minutes of the show to any musician who walked in, and LeJeune walked in one day with his accordion and asked for a spot. Shuler, who had not met him before, allowed him to perform, earning the wrath of the station owner who happened to be listening (and who was not a fan of Cajun music). Shuler received a loud verbal dressing down, but it did not deter him from afterward seeking out LeJeune and crafting a recording agreement that resulted in Goldband records issue of “Teche Special”[1].
Related songs are Ambrose Thibodeaux's "How Come" and "Bois Sec" Ardoin's "Quo' Faire?"
