![]() ![]() You will not only get your purchases, you will get my blessings and a karmic boost! (I don’t otherwise participateĪnd you can support my book habit without even spending money on me by following my Amazon links to do your shopping (if, of course, you like shopping on Amazon) As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases (I get a small percentage of every dollar spent while someone is following my referral links), and every month I get a gift certificate that allows me to buy a few books (or, if someone has bought a big-ticket item, even more). If your preferred feed is Twitter, you can follow to get My name is Steve Dodson I’m a retired copyeditor currently living in western Massachusetts after many years in New York City. Thanks, Eric!Ĭommented-On Language Hat Posts (courtesy of J.C. I could have sworn we’d covered zydeco before, but apparently not. That`s how zydeco music got to be called that - or at least that’s my view of it.” Some people didn’t know the whole title of it, so they just asked radio stations to ‘play that zydeco record,’ and they’d go to the dances and ask for the same thing. There was an old record a long time ago called ‘Zydeco Est Pas Sale’ that meant ‘no salt in the beans’ and became very popular. ![]() “But we call a dance or a party a zydeco. ![]() “Which doesn’t make any sense,” Simien says with a chuckle. It also rides an apparently growing ripple of national urban interest in an accordion-based Louisiana brand of music called “zydeco.” Expect, therefore, to hear more in the next few months about zydeco, a term currently about as well known in the mainstream as “toot-toot.” The word zydeco is derived from the French words les haricots, which means green beans. The song’s title and Simien’s widely varied labors in its creation aren`t all “My Toot-Toot” has going for it. several songs, really, and put that word in there: ‘Mon chere toot-toot.'” Plus there was an old song - I never really heard the record, but I used to hear different bands play at house parties when I was a kid, and they would sing. “And I used to hear older guys call their girlfriends toot-toot. They`d pinch the baby on the cheek and say, ‘Isn’t she - or isn’t he - a sweet little toot-toot?’ “I got the idea from hearing my grandmother and the older folks use the word quite a bit. “From the old Cajun (language), a toot-toot is something special, maybe your best girlfriend, your all, your everything,” Simien says. In French-influenced Cajun Louisiana, where the 47-year-old Simien lives, toot is a corruption of the Gallic word tout, meaning ‘all.’ Here‘s a fun three-decade-old piece by Jack Hurst about the name of a long-forgotten minor hit:Ĭountry music’s novelty hit of the year, “My Toot-Toot,” doubtless owes much of its popularity to the obvious question: What is a toot-toot? ![]()
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