Track Listing

1. Choo Choo Boogaloo
2. [Spoken Segment]
3. Get on Board
4. [Spoken Segment]
5. Give Me a Squeeze, Please
6. [Spoken Segment]
7. Iko Iko
8. [Spoken Segment]
9. Jeleron
10. [Spoken Segment]
11. Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)
12. [Spoken Segment]
13. Crawfish Song
14. [Spoken Segment]
15. I've Been Working on the Railroad
16. [Spoken Segment]
17. Skip to My Lou
18. [Spoken Segment]
19. Skip to My Blues
20. [Spoken Segment]
21. They All Asked for You
22. [Spoken Segment]
23. Mardi Gras Mambo
24. [Spoken Segment]
25. Little Red Caboose
26. [Spoken Segment]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20176 in Music
• Released on: 1994-08-30
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com essential recording
Take a spicy Cajun tour through Louisiana's bayou country on Choo Choo Boogaloo! The musical scenery includes foot-stompin', two-steppin,' finger poppin' zydeco emblazoned with hot guitar licks, sassy accordion, and a dash of blues thrown in for good measure. Traditional titles, including "Get on Board," "Iko Iko," "Little Red Caboose," and "Cotton Fields," have been well adapted to zydeco style, while "Crawfish Song," "Mardi Gras Mambo," and "Give Me a Squeeze, Please" are right at home in this celebration of Cajun culture. Children will have a wonderful time moving with the new rhythms and exploring the sounds of various instruments used to create the unique zydeco style. --Deborah Moore

Customer Reviews

Wonderful get-up-&-move music for children and parents too!
After debating between several CD's, I was swayed by the rave reviews on Amazon.com into buying this one for my son's third birthday. I am so glad that I did!!! My 3 year-old as well as my 18 month-old love this CD! All I have to say is, "Do you guys want to listen to Choo Choo Boogaloo?" and they are already dancing with excitement! I really enjoy the CD as well. The music is wonderful--different styles, rhythms, etc. I never get that, "this whole CD sounds the same" feeling. My favorite song is the first one, "Choo Choo Boogaloo"; it starts out fairly slow and gets faster and faster, get like a train starting down the track!!

Outstanding
Not only do my 1 and 4 year old children enjoy this album, so do I. Great to listen too - you even catch yourself singing to almost every song. There should be more children's music like this.

The best in my son's collection
The first thing my son (age 3-1/2) does when he gets up in the morning is run to the stereo and put in this CD. It is on pretty much all day every day -- has been for about a month -- and I still love it. I love it even more than my Buckwheat Zydeco CD for grown-ups, partly because it has made my son such a music lover (and he can now recognize a number of instruments from having heard the tutorial on Choo Choo Boogaloo), and partly because it's great music. I just bought another copy for a birthday present.