Video: "Aiko Aiko" traditional Mardi Gras Song designed to Dance to. With That Beat! Originaly Recorded by The Dixie Cups in 1965.

https://youtu.be/huxPOT8RxUo


In 1965 New Orleans girl group The Dixie Cups were recording for Leiber & Stoller’s Red Bird Records in a New York studio. They’d finished “Chapel of Love” and during a break the girls began singing a song they’d learned from their mother called “Iko-Iko,” a call and response chant of a Mardi Gras Indian tribe. http://performingsongwriter.com/mardi-gras-music/ 


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