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TOUS LES DEUX POUR LA MEME ('Both for the Same One' or 'For the Same Girl'). Cajun, Waltz (3/4 time). USA, southwestern Louisiana. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB(Vocal)A(Vocal)AA'. The tune is the first that Cajun fiddler Dennis McGee learned to play the day he received his first instrument. Related tunes, according to Raymond François (1990), are Leroy "Happy Fats" LeBlanc's and Ervin Vin Bruce's versions of "La Valse de Sainte Marie," Blackie Forestier's "All for the Same" and Merlin Fontenot's "Les Maringouins."
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Source for notated version : - Lawrence Walker (La.) [François].
Printed sources : - François (Yé Yaille, Chère!), 1990; pp. 292-293.
Recorded sources : - La Louisiane Records LL-LP126, Lawrence Walker. BeauSoleil - "The Orchard" (2007). Arhoolie CD 458 and ARH00458_102 (Folkways), BeauSoleil - "The Best of BeauSoleil" (1997). Arhoolie CD 302, Beausoleil - "Allons a Lafayette and More, Avec Canray Fontenot" (1989). The Balfa Brothers - "J'ai Vu le Loup, Le Renard et la Belette" (1976. Reissued by Rounder Records in 1989). Khoury‘s Records 607 (78RPM?), Lawrence Walker (c. 1950's). Swallow CD-6221 Swallow Cajun Pioneer Series vol. 8, "The Essential Collection of Lawrence Walker" (2010).
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Hear the tune played by BeauSoleil at youtube.com [1]
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