James "Sugar Boy" Crawford (born October 12, 1934) is a New Orleans R&B artist. Author of the classic "Iko Iko", a hit for him in 1954, and later covered by many other artists, including The Dixie Cups and Dr. John. Starting out on trombone, he formed a band which local DJ Doctor Daddy-O named "The Chapaka Shawee" (Creole for "We Aren’t Raccoons"), the title of an instrumental they played. Signed on by Chess Records president Leonard Chess, the group was re-named "Sugar Boy and his Cane Cutters".

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