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"The House of the Rising Sun," American folk song, made popular by The Animals, 1964, (#1 on Billboard Hot 100) ... "New Orleans Song" by La Croix
Pages in category "Songs about New Orleans" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
In May 2006, Buffett opened his set with the song at the first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival following Hurricane Katrina. [19] The 2004 album David Hasselhoff Sings America opens with a cover of City of New Orleans, using Goodman's original lyrics. Canadian singer Roch Voisine has covered the original version of the song in both English ...
New Orleans was a regional Tin Pan Alley music composing and publishing center through the 1920s, and was also an important center of ragtime. Louis Prima demonstrated the versatility of the New Orleans tradition, taking a style rooted in traditional New Orleans jazz into swinging hot music popular into the rock and roll era. He is buried in ...
Labelle's racy hit about New Orleans sex workers soared to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1975. In 2001, the song topped the chart once again when Pink, Mya, Lil Kim, and Christina ...
"Iko Iko" (/ ˈ aɪ k oʊ ˈ aɪ k oʊ /) is a much-covered New Orleans song that tells of a parade collision between two tribes of Mardi Gras Indians and the traditional confrontation. The song, under the original title "Jock-A-Mo", was written and released in 1953 as a single by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford and his Cane Cutters but it failed to ...
Early New Orleans jazz bands had habaneras in their repertoire and the tresillo/habanera figure was a rhythmic staple of jazz at the turn of the 20th century. Comparing the music of New Orleans with the music of Cuba, Wynton Marsalis observes that tresillo is the New Orleans "clave". [25]
"Walking to New Orleans" is a 1960 song by Bobby Charles, written for and recorded by Fats Domino. The record was a hit, released on Imperial Records , reaching #6 on the pop chart and #2 on the R&B chart.