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Instrument(s) Accordion.

Year of Recording 1977.

Record Label Folkways Records.

Source Archive Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

Credits Artist Gérard Dôle ; Design by Ronald Clyne ; Cover photo by Noelle Dole.

101 Octaves Gérard Dôle 1:02.

102 Scale of C Gérard Dôle 1:34.

103 Bass acc. Two Step in C Gérard Dôle 1:10.

104 Right and Left Hands Gérard Dôle 1:28.

105 Right Hand Chord C Gérard Dôle 1:09.

106 Right Hand Chord G Gérard Dôle 0:11.

107 Right Hand Chord G7 Gérard Dôle 0:39.

108 Two-Step in C: Colinda Gérard Dôle 3:20.

109 Two-Step C: Bayou Pompon Gérard Dôle 4:24.

110 Bass acc. Waltz in C Gérard Dôle 0:45.

111 Exercise Right and Left Hands Gérard Dôle 1:09.

112 Waltz in C: Gabriel Gérard Dôle 2:06.

113 Waltz in C: Grand Marais Gérard Dôle 5:22.

201 Scale in G Gérard Dôle 1:17.

202 Right Hand Chords D Gérard Dôle 0:18.

203 Two-Step in G: La Queue de Tortue Gérard Dôle 3:40.

204 Two-Step in G, “Madam Bosso” Gérard Dôle 4:22.

205 Two-Step in G, “Allons a Lafayette” Gérard Dôle 4:42.

206 Two-Step in G, “J’Etais au Bal Hier au Soir” Gérard Dôle 4:51.

207 Waltz in G, “Jolie Blonde” Gérard Dôle 5:55.

208 Appendix, “Dance de Mardi Gras” in A minor, in D minor, Two-Step in F “Cocodrie Stomp” Gérard Dôle 1:55.