Just for the heck of it....a while back i mentioned "sleeper accordion Champion". Here is an example of a virtually unknown Sleeper Champion playing Pee Wee Broussard's version of the Creole Stomp. He's better that Bubba Brown, better than Marc Savoy, Steve Riley, and any body else I've heard play the Creole Stomp. Let me introduce you to Austin Monceaux.



Good ain't he? Excuse the fiddle player for not picking it up when he was given the cue.

Greezy,
Austin Monceaux is a real master of the Cajun Accordion,
but I can't say if he's better than other master players.
Taste is also something that als matters.
The accordionists you mentioned are all so extremely good.
It's all so impressive what they do and can.
With sport it's much easier to say who is the best :slightly_smiling_face:

I search for more videos of Austin Moncoeaux and I love what he's doing
because I love the traditional style
It's so good that there are so many young people in LA who still play like that.
One of my favourites is Cameron Dupuy with the Mid City Aces
With his dad Michael and Gina Forsyth.
Also great with the Troubadours :blush:
They were in England too, just like Cory McCauley.

At last I understand how to mention the position to play a song in.
C is the first on a C accordion, G is the fifth and F is the fourth position
I'm 75 now and it takes some years to get it :joy: :joy:

Melo, Austin is good at such a young age because someone guided him to learn PeeWee Broussard's licks. That's not something a youth figures out on his own.

I'm investigating who first started using the Bb flat accordion, and why or what brought it about in a world of mostly "C","D", and "G" accordions. There has been a surprising development. It could have been white cajun musicians stealing the idea from black zydeco musicians. Or it could have been PeeWee's tricky song recorded in "F" that kicked it all off. We shall see.................I spoke to a man that was familiar with PeeWee and I was told that PeeWee was a smart A$$ SOB. LOL, I was not expecting such a derogatory evaluation on Peewee.

Just as side project I would like to introduce everyone to the CREATOR of the trick that has eluded most accordion players since it was first heard on this recording of "The Creole Stomp" cut on record by PeeWee Broussard back in 1952. Listen to PeeWee's very last ride, the triplet trick he pulls off to finish off the Creole Stomp. That is known in small Cajun circles as
"The Giggity Trick". And yes, there is a trick to "The Giggity" that I'm going to explain......



It's way easier to do "The Giggity" if you're standing up and using a shoulder strap with your accordion sort of hanging down at a 45 angle. Gravity will help you with the rapid in and out bellows move it takes to make "The Giggity" happen. But instead of just quickly pushing your bellows in and out while doing a very quick and exact pattern on buttons 5,6, and 7 (emphasis on buttons 5 and 7), you want to sort of make a circular motion with your (in and out) rapid bellows movement. You'll also want to stop playing your base side seconding and get your dang hand off of that air release button on the back of the base block when you attempt to roll out "The Giggity".

It cannot be demonstrated on camera, you either figure it out, or you don't. It is basically an accordion player parlor trick for show-offs.

And for the love of God, if you learn it.....DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, OVER USE"The Giggity"

..........or we'll all get sick of hearing it!! Good Luck.

Well I can't open the Creole Stomp because of this part of the world.
I found a version of the Creole Stomp of Pee Wee Broussard.
Here's the end of the song with the Gigity Trick under link#2 :relaxed:
I also slow it down a bit.
Greezy, is this the gigity ?

Yes Melo, that is definitely the same giggity trick I was talking about the very last run on the Creole stomp by PeeWee. Strange how it doesn't sound the same when it slowed down. I had to Speed it back up a little to recognize it.

What's up Neal Broussard on guitar! Also, a great accordion player.

Saturday September 13th. 2025
It was finally reveiled unto me a few hours ago exactly who built the first B flat accordion in Cajun land! The person who told me the answer was a steel guitar player for The Scott Playboys. Walter Mouton showed up with a dual key Falcon accordion and one set of the dual set of reeds in that accordion were B flat reeds and he told the steel player that he was going to have to tune his steel guitar differently to be able to play along with the B flat. I went to a supper this evening with that steel guitar player who also played at one point with Steve Riley and the Mamou Play boys. So, with all that said, the first accordion maker to ever build a B flat accordion was Randy falcon. And that brand new patented dual key accordion was built for Walter Mouton. Thank you for your attention on this matter LOL.

Incidentally, that steel guitar player that I spoke to is and was the brother of the late Rufus Foreman, accordion and fiddle player who owned the DOVE Accordion brand. That steel player's father is and was the late Robertson Foreman.....the Patriarch of a his own family band which helped to produced the outstanding musical skills of Rufus Foreman, Lorita Foreman (rhythm guitar),
and Randall Foreman, (one of the best steel guitar players around). Good enough for Walter Mouton to like him and not fire him.....If you're a local Cajun musician, you'd know exactly what I'm talking about when it came to Walter Mouton's hiring and firing practices. They didn't call him
Le Boss for nothing.

Greezy,

That's a great story and information too.
It's very special that the first B-flat accordion that was built in Louisiana was a
part of a dual key six cylinder accordion of Mr Randy Falcon.
I allways thought that the B-flat was more used by Zydeco accordionists like
Boozoo Chavis, BeauJoque, Preston Frank, John Delafose, ......
Do you know when Mr Randy Falcon built his first double key accordion ?
I wonder if some of the older Zydeco accordionists owned a normal Cajun accordion (Bb) ?
Or can they play in Bb on every accordion the owned ?

Melo, Randy falcon applied or sent in the application to patent the Dual key accordion in August of 1990. That means that he had already built one before that. And it works out that Zydeco player Beau Jacques and John Delafouse started recording with a regular B flat and either 1991 or 1992. Now you're this well, Zydeco players almost always play in the fifth. That means that if they are on a B flat accordion they are almost always playing in the key of F. The steel player Randall Foreman told me that Walter mouton's voice was changing with age and he needed to sing in a key key that would allow him to not strain so much to sing. So he got with Randy falcon and bought him and accordion one step down from a C, the B flat

What's up Lost Cajun? Meaning, Hello! I did not know the guitar player Neal Broussard also knew how to play the accordion. Thanks for letting us know. How do you know him?