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People I meet often ask what is "Swamp Pop Music". The word "Swamp" stands for the Louisiana swamps.
The phrase "Pop Music" of course stands for popular music. In the 1950's to the late
60's the music coming out of Louisiana eventually became known as "Swamp Pop Music". Songs like This
Should Go On Forever, Mathilda, Sweet Dreams, Lord I Need Somebody Bad, Crazy Baby, Red Red Wine, I'm a Fool to Care, Blueberry
Hill, What am I Livin' For, South To Louisiana, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Lonely Days and Lonely Nights, Don't
Take It So Hard, I'm leaving It All Up To You, Send Me Some Lovin, Just a Dream, Just Because, Feed The Flame, Before I Grow
To Old, Shed So Many Tears, and The jukebox Songs. The list goes on and on. The "swamppop music"
coming out of swamps and bayou land of Louisiana reached it's peak when Rod Benard went on Dick Clark's "American
Bandstand". Swamppop music was overshadowed by the Beatles when they toured the USA. Swamp
pop music is now enjoying a new comeback with the help of the world wide web!!!
Some classic
swamp pop is  Matilda(Cookie and the Cupcakes), Your Picture(Johnny Allan), andHouse of Memories(Warren Storm)...they all have that " swamp-pop sound "....the triplet chords on the piano, saxaphones, strong emotional lyrics...and that "feel
good rythmn" of swamp pop. Even the slow swamp pop songs are danced kinda slow-fast because
of the beat of the songs....and of course the faster tempo songs are danced jitterbugged style!!!
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