Gold Star Records
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Gold Star Records is an American independent record label founded by Bill Quinn in Houston, Texas in 1941.
"Jole Blon"
Harry Choates
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Harry Henry Choates was an American Cajun music fiddler known as the "Fiddle King of Cajun Swing" and the "Godfather of Cajun music." The scholar Barry Jean Ancelet called Choates "undoubtedly the mos
Gold Star Records
…country (or "hillbilly") artists before expanding to record local blues and Cajun artists. In 1947, Gold Star had its first hit record, "Jole Blon" by Harry Choates, a swing and dance tune that and became the first and only Cajun record to reach the Billboard Top Five. In 1948, Lightnin' Hopkins' songs "T-Model…
Harry Choates