[Ads-l] Antedating of "Zydeco"

[Shapiro, Fred]

zydeco (OED 1949)

Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins recorded a song, titled "Zolo Go," with Gold Star Records, ca. 1947.  The recording included a spoken introduction in which Hopkins used the word "zydeco" as both a noun and a verb.  See Lawrence Clayton, The Roots of Texas Music, pages 205-207, and Roger Wood, Texas Zydeco, page 100.

Fred Shapiro

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