Am I wrong if I say that it sounds also like Johnny can't dance ?

geno's 2 step - sort of

hey geno - no

wle

Hey Geno! is actually played in second position. On a C accordion,it would be in G. Also, the chord progression is actually G,Am, G,Am, G,Am. This is a very common progression in Geno's music where he goes to the 2 chord instead of the 5 chord. He does this in "Everybody's Dancin'" and in "I'll never see her again" on the Chanson Perdue CD, he goes to the 2 major. In the key of C the progression is C,D,C,G,C.

Anyway, Hey Geno is illustrated in the video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDBem7EVf28

hm
well now i am confused
i learned it in F

and i asked geno about it, personally, when he was playing at the olympics in atl in 1996

his answer wasn;t completey clear, but i thought he was saying yes it was in F on a C box

there is an old tradition of the LA players not wanting to give out their secrets

boozoo used to play with his fingers under a cloth if he thought anyone was watching too closely


oh well

wle

If I can get my cam to work, this evening, I will do a quick demo of the accordion and the guitar.

oh
ok but i can tell you are right from the geno video
wle

Had a stab at 'Hey Geno!' this week and found out for myself it is in 2nd posistion. I reckon it has quite a strong F kind of turn to it. Looking forward to the Ganey demo, I got a lot from the 'horse with no shoes' one.

So the challenge still stills stands to find a 1 row zydeco tune written in F!

One of the most popular zydeco single row tunes of all time is in the 3rd position: Why You Wanna Make Me Cry.

Geno plays "C'est pas la peine brailler" in the F position and The Creole Zydeco Farmers (I think)did "That ole mule called Shine."

Sometime this evening, I have to go in the studio to make a couple of videos for someone who requested them. I will do some short clips of these tunes, as well, just to illustrate them.

~G