Title: New Orleans 1: Mardi Gras / Various
Label: Folkways Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS

This fascinating collection of music from the streets of New Orleans was recorded between 1954 and 1958, and includes an inspiring variety of material, from vegetable peddlers' street cries to the musical saw and brass bands, from a shoeshine boy's hambone to Sister Dora Alexander's impassioned "Russia, Let God's Moon Alone," written the day after Russia launched a satellite.

Tracks:
1.1 Street Cries
1.2 Let God's Moon Alone
1.3 Times Done Changed
1.4 Street Cries
1.5 What a Friend We Have in Jesus (Musical Saw) / My Old Kentucky Home / When the Saints Go Marching in (Medley)
1.6 Shine
1.7 Liebestraum
1.8 Shoe Shine - Hambone
1.9 Mean Old Frisco
1.10 To-Wa-Bac-A-Way - the Indian Race
1.11 Red White and Blue Got the Golden Band
1.12 On Mardi Gras Day
1.13 Uptown Dances - Bourbon Street Parade
1.14 Parade of the Krewe of Momus, the / When the Saints Go Marching in / Margie / South Rampart Street Parade (Medley)