A lot of people love the music called Zydeco but most have no idea where it came from.  In the forties, fifties and beyond, a musician came on the scene.  He had been playing the old Cajun tunes for years and then along came rock and roll.  The original rock and roll of the fifties, the good stuff.  Incorporating the two unique sounds together he developed a new type of music.  In 1956 or 57 I was in a night club, Le Moulin Rouge, just outside of Lake Charles Louisiana, where I was stationed at Lake Charles Air Force Base, waiting for the latest pickup, garage band, to play.  Instead I saw on the stage a diminutive black man sitting on a chair holding an accordion in his lap.  Behind him were two other players, one with a guitar and the other held a wash board.  Disappointed I asked my cousin Ray LaVergne, "what's this."  He replied he had no idea. Then the music started.  The beat was fantastic, the sound filled me with pleasure and I had to get up and dance.  What a night!  Later I spoke with one of the band members and he told me an amusing story. Clifton Chenier the man who invented this sound had gone to Houston, Texas to cut a record.  While they were setting up the engineer asked him what was the type of music they would be playing.  Clifton, like my dad, didn't speak much English so he had some difficulty understanding the man.  The song they were about to record was "Le haricots son pas sale," "The snap Beans aren't salted."   Clifton kept saying "Le Haricots, Les Haricots."  The "har" in Haricots is pronounced "zar" the way Clifton was saying it, with the Le in front (happy Roy?), and it sounded to the engineer that Clifton was saying Zydeco, and that's what he wrote down. That's the music you heard when you logged on to my site. The great Clifton Chenier playing, "Le Haricots son pas sale."  So, now you know the rest of the story. Lionel A. LaVergne