I remember my father whistling this, and sometimes singing it, while he cut our hair.
Hank Williams scored a hit with Jambalaya in 1952, and it must have remained popular throughout the Fifties or I wouldn’t have remembered it. Every now and then someone else would record it: the Carpenters spring to mind.
Singing about “big fun on the bayou”–I wonder what would happen if anybody came out with a song like that today? Would we suddenly remember that “blameless” and “wholesome” are good things, after all? Or would the wokies shut it down because it’s cis-intersectional or something?
I am so glad I grew up then, and not now.
Wow, I haven’t thought about this song in ages — and now I won’t be able to get it out of my head.
By the way, I won’t be posting much today. It’s housecleaning and chore day, and then catch up on the 5,379 emails clogging up my inbox — most of which are spam or other throwaways.
I had a great childhood. I didn’t have any teachers that tried to sexualize me. Music was more fun back then. Remember the “One Eyed, One Horned, Purple People Eater?”
You bet! And Sheb Wooley, in addition to his musical gifts, was a regular on “Rawhide.”
Oh yeah, I remember that! I remember the Carpenters singing that. I also remember Patsy Cline, Marty Robbins, Johnny Horton and a host of other great singers.
Such a Cajun Louisiana type of song!