title: Aldus Roger
text: # Aldus Roger
  
  Aldus Roger (February 10, 1915 – April 4, 1999) was an American Cajun accordion player in southwest Louisiana, best known for his accordion skills, and television music program.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Aldus Roger was born in Carencro, Louisiana and learned to play the Cajun accordion at age eight. His father, Francis Roger, didn't want him to play accordion; however, he would borrow it and play in the barn.
  
  ## Lafayette Playboys
  
  Roger led the Lafayette Playboys for over twenty years. During the late 1950s and 1960s, he hosted his own music program Passe Partout on KLFY-TV 10 in Lafayette. Among his many recordings are "KLFY Waltz," "Channel 10 Two Step," "Mardi Gras Dance," and "Lafayette Two Step (1964)." He also recorded a Cajun French version of Hank Williams country-and- western hit "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" (which Williams in turn had based on the Cajun tune "Grand Texas").
  
  He recorded several albums, one with Rounder Records entitled "Aldus Roger & the Lafayette Playboys - Legend Series" in 1998 and another with La Louisiane Records entitled "Plays the French Music of South Louisiana" in 1993.
  
  The Aldus Roger song "Les Haricots Sont Pas Salés" (translated: "The Snap Beans Ain't Salty") is covered by Ambrose Thibodeaux in some of The Sims.
  
  