* Amédé Ardoin makes the first recordings of zydeco in Louisiana.

Amédé Ardoin, a black man, soon became the most popular Cajun star, however.

Amédé Ardoin ( March 11, 1898 – November 3, 1942 ) was an American Louisiana Creole musician, known for his high singing voice and virtuosity on the Creole / Cajun Accordion.

* Amédé Ardoin & Dennis McGee: Blues du Basile Listen

* Amédé Ardoin in Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture

Creole pioneer Amede Ardoin is said to be the first Creole to record this indigenous music.

Ardoin, with fiddle player Dennis McGee, was one of the first artists to record the music of the Acadiana region of Louisiana.

In all, thirty-four recordings with Ardoin playing accordion are known to exist.

John Delafose, Andrus Espree ( aka Beau Jocque ), Boozoo Chavis, Rosie Ledet, Chubby Carrier, Conray Fontenot, Amede Ardoin, Rockin Dopsie, Geno Delafose, Nathan Williams, Keith Frank, Chris Ardoin, Cedric Watson and Jeffrey Broussard are also other well known Creole Zydeco musicians.

In 1975 he established his Maison de Soulrecord label, devoted to Creole and Zydeco music, including such artists as Clifton Chenier, Rockin ' Dopsie, Keith Frank, Chris Ardoin, Zydeco Force, Jeffery Brousard, and others.

According to John Ardoin, the long-time music critic for The Dallas Morning News, she sang in Lucia di Lammermoor in the 1958 season.

* 1915 – Alphonse " Bois Sec " Ardoin, Cajun accordionist ( d. 2007 )

* Danny Ardoin, Major League Baseball player ( b. 1974 )

Noted zydeco musician Alphonse " Bois Sec " Ardoin started his musical training on the triangle as a child.

Young performers like Chris Ardoin, Keith Frank, and Zydeco Force added further by tying the sound to the bass drum rhythm to accentuate or syncopate the backbeat even more.

Melodies from pioneers like Ardoin provided a basis for works by composers Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Moses Hogan and others.

With the Rockies, Torrealba had a chance to be the starting catcher, but lost the job after he was injured prior to the 2006 season, establishing Danny Ardoin as the Rockies starting catcher.

Veterans Chris Widger and Danny Ardoin served as Hernández's backups throughout the season.

La Renaudie gathered round him like-minded Huguenot gentlemen representing various regions of France: Charles de Castelnau de Chalosse, Bouchard d ' Aubeterre, Edme de Ferrière-Maligny, Captains Mazères, Cañizares, Sainte-Marie and Lignières, Jean d ' Aubigné ( father of Agrippa d ' Aubigné ) and Ardoin de Porcelet.

King, Clifton Chenier, Earl Scruggs, Michael Flatley, Shirley Caesar, Albertina Walker, Janette Carter, Koko Taylor, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Jean Ritchie, Sunnyland Slim, Lydia Mendoza, Boozoo Chavis, Zakir Hussain, Helen Cordero, Margaret Tafoya, Santiago Jiménez, Jr., John Cephas, Bois Sec Ardoin, Mick Moloney, Clarence Fountain & the Blind Boys, Esther Martinez, and the Dixie Hummingbirds.

After starting catcher Gerald Laird was sidelined with a sprained thumb, Barajas took over the starting job with Laird and Danny Ardoin serving as his backups.

Descendants of family members and musicians who knew Ardoin tell a story, now well-known, about a racially motivated attack on him in which he was severely beaten, probably between 1939 – 1940, while walking home after playing at a house dance near Eunice, Louisiana.

The most common story says that some white men were angered when a white woman, daughter of the house, lent her handkerchief to Ardoin to wipe the sweat from his face.

Canray Fontenot and Wade Fruge, in PBS's American Patchwork, explained that after Ardoin left the place, he was run over by a Model A car and crushed his head and throat, damaging his vocal cords.

Other versions say that Ardoin was poisoned, not beaten, possibly by a jealous fellow musician.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

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After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:

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It is said that the eccentric Timothy Dexter, who was one of the first share-holders, stood on the table and made a speech worthy of the occasion.

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The sequence of events leading to his important discovery still remains ambiguous but it seems that one of the advanced students at the university related that the first direct event that led to the publication of Oersted's discovery occurred during a private lecture made before a group of other advanced students in the spring of 1820.

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King Muhammad 5, was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May Day, 1957.