Anthology of American Folk Music
Volume 2: Social Music, Track 37

SAUT CRAPAUD
Columbus Fruge

Recorded Memphis, TN: September 18, 1929
Columbus Fruge, vocal and accordian
Originally released on Victor 22184A
 
Columbus "Boy" Fruge was from Armaudville, Louisiana. He starting playing accordion as a child and was playing dances by age 11 (Charlie Seemann, notes to CMF 013). Fruge recorded four songs for Victor in 1929. Saut Crapaud is one of most popular Cajun folk songs. Its title translates as "Jump Frog."

FOR ADDITIONAL RECORDINGS of Fruge see the collections:
Grand Mamou: A Cajun Music Anthology: The Historic Bluebird Sessions 1928-1941 (CMF 013c); Louisiana Cajun Music, Vol. 1: The First Recordings, The 1920s (OT 108a).

OTHER RECORDED VERSIONS include:
Cajun: As Saute Crapeau: Isom Fontenot (AH 359c); Wallace "Cheese" Reed (AH 415c).