Tito Puente / Marc & Ann Savoy
On this American Routes, music, songs, and artists that transcend their own cultural boundaries. Marc and Ann Savoy, a husband and wife team from Eunice, Louisiana, started playing together over 30 years ago and have helped Cajun music spread around the world. Plus legendary timbale player and bandleader Tito Puente, who brought even more of a Latin tinge to the American scene – our interview with him before he passed away in 2000. With music from Nina Simone, Wilco, Super Chikan and more.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Lullaby Of Birdland Tito Puente
The Concord Jazz Heritage Series, Concord Jazz
Strike Up the Band Count Basie & Tony Bennett
Gershwin Standard Time, Hip-O
Mambo Birdland Tito Puente
Mambo Birdland, RMM
INTERVIEW: Tito Puente
Instrumental: On Broadway Tito Puente
50 Years of Swing, RMM
Joy Spring Max Roach/Clifford Brown
The Best of Cilfford Brown, Blue Note
I Put a Spell on You Nina Simone
I Put a Spell On You, Mercury
Hoodoo Lady Memphis Minnie
Hoodoo Lady, Sony
I Scare Myself Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks
Return to Hicksville, Hip-O
Instrumental: Laura Jethro Burns
Acoustic Disc-100% Handmade Music Vol.IV, Acoustic Disc
It's Your Voodoo Working Charles Sheffield
Excello Story Vol.4, Hip-O
I Been Hoodood Dr. John
In the Right Place, Atco
Simbi Dlo Frisner Augustin & La Troupe Makandal
Sacred Music of Haitian Voodoo, Folkways
Voo Doo The Neville Brothers
Yellow Moon, A&M
Good to See You Neil Young
Silver & Gold, Reprise
So Long, it's been Good to Know You Woody Guthrie
Folk Song America, Smithsonian
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Lake Arthur Stomp Dewey Balfa, Marc Savoy & D.L. Menard
En Bas Du Chene Vert, Arhoolie
Rueda De Fuego / Ring of Fire Mingo Saldivar
Mingo Saldivar Y Sus Tremendos Cuatro Espadas, Rounder
You Better Do It Now Spade Cooley w/ Tex Williams
Spadella!, Sony
Djangology Django Rheinhart
Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli, Prism Leisure
Flying Saucers The Mello-Tones
There Will Be No Sweeter Sound: The Okeh Gospel Story, Sony
Flyin' Saucers Rock & Roll Billy Riley & His Little Green Men
Loud, Fast & Out Of Control, Rhino Box
My Flying Saucer Wilco & Billy Bragg
Mermaid Avenue Vol.2, Elektra
Rave On Buddy Holly
Greatest Hits, MCA
Instrumental: La Rosee Steve Riley and The Mamou Playboys
Bayou Ruler, Rounder
INTERVIEW: Marc & Ann Savoy
Chicken Rhythm Slim Gaillard
Laughin In Rhythm, Verve
Rooster Blues Lightnin' Slim
Rooster Blues, Hip-O
Instrumental: White Rock Rooster Super Chikan
Blues Come Home To Roost, Rooster Blues
Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On Hezekiah & House Rockers
Hezekiah & House Rockers, High Water
Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On Carl Perkins
Classic, Bear Family