Loretta Anderson, Della Turner, recorders, 1970, 1971
Item — Box: 2, CD: 189
Scope and Contents
Anderson, 1970: Mrs. Frances Cordoba, b. 1889, Valdez, NM. 1. Experiencias personales (personal information, Frances rode horses, had three riding accidents, children, health); 2. Bailes de antes (tells about old time folk dances in Valdez, valse chiquiado, chiquiao, cuadrillas, valse redondo, varseliana or varsoviana, chotis, schottische, asturiana, leisure); 3. Reminiscencias (relato, trip she made to Washington, impressed by the ocean, sea; first automobiles, cars in Valdez, New Mexico, first was owned by a Dr. Martinez, horses were scared of noise from cars); 4. Relato (her visit to Guanajuato, Mexico, to visit relatives, good time); 5. Labranza (relato, about her grandfather's work in sheep camp in Wyoming, while at home he planted his crops carred for animals, farming, ranching); 6. Comidas (she does not like pork, says it is unhealthy meat, talks about quesos, queso de cabeza, head cheese, chicos, frijoles, tortillas, food, cooking, women); 7. Casas (she describes types of houses around Valdez, New Mexico, and about her home); 8. Tortillas (she tells how tortillas were baked directly over hot coals, fire, related foods, baking, cooking); 9. Escobas (describes making home made brooms, from local grasses, prefers store bought brooms, house cleaning); 10. Remedios (home remedies, cures, baby's fontanel drops, caida de mollera, how to cure it, children); 11. Conversacion (her father taught her church doctrine, she born a Catholic, attends Mass, in old days Mass said in Valdez, New Mexico, only periodically, not a resident priest, visita, said her father was a coyote, mixed Italian and Spanish parentage, church, religion); 12. La bruja (witch story, old Native American Indian kidnaps two girls, one rich and one very poor, who takes them to house of a witch, young man on a pinto horse kills the witch and the Indian and saves the girls, later marries one of girls, other becomes the maid of honor at wedding, women, children, apparently frontier adaptation of a fair tale).
Turner, 1971: Edwin Berry, 1915, Tome, NM. Good recording quality. 1. El solterito (old folk song, 1900, early twentieth century, satire, criticism, young men first their first job and then ask for a wife, related incidents, women); 2. Yo vide bajar un bulto (recording, folk song, man sees a ghost coming down from Sierra Lucera, Cerro Lucero, Lucero Hill, turns out to be a barnyard snake trying to scare someone); 3. Yo vide una flor hermosa (old folk song, about how everything in this world comes to an end, illusion, pleasures, flowers); 4. Cuando en la playa (folk song, romantic love song popular in Mexico and the Southwest at the end of the 1800s, late nineteenth century, on the beach, sand, tells about a sailor coming home who is met by his beloved girl, as the ship gets closer to port both the captain and the young man are looking at her, captain almost crashes the ship, see CD 192); 5. Senor don Gil (folk song, about don Gil who has a barrel of chestnuts and a cat trained to get the nuts out of the fire); 6. Don Malero y don Juan (song for children, bilingual, part in Spanish, part in English, with Spanish accent on the English words, language, like shoo fly, don't bother me, I belong to Company G); 7. El senor don Gato (old Spanish ballad, children, romance, Tom cat goes on roof to see a lady cat, falls, breaks ribs, dies, muerte, death, love); 8. La merced de Tome (song about loss of the Tome land grant, those favoring the sale were traitors and opportunists, commentary); El Cerro de Tome, El Cerco de Tome, history); 9. Indita del '84 (Berry sings unaccompanied, the Rio Grande river flood 1884 in Tome; Berry said composer of indita was Manuel Vigil, Manuel Lito Vigil, who had lived in St. Louis, Missouri, was one of first in Tome area to speak fluent English, language, he gave his horses and mares English names, Brown, Nellie, Georgia, etc.); 10. Indita de Cleofas Griego (humorous indita, shepherd with some three hundred sheep, got them mixed up with flock of another shepherd Nazario, eventually they separate them; Berry gives the background for this ballad, commentary).
Turner, 1971: Edwin Berry, 1915, Tome, NM. Good recording quality. 1. El solterito (old folk song, 1900, early twentieth century, satire, criticism, young men first their first job and then ask for a wife, related incidents, women); 2. Yo vide bajar un bulto (recording, folk song, man sees a ghost coming down from Sierra Lucera, Cerro Lucero, Lucero Hill, turns out to be a barnyard snake trying to scare someone); 3. Yo vide una flor hermosa (old folk song, about how everything in this world comes to an end, illusion, pleasures, flowers); 4. Cuando en la playa (folk song, romantic love song popular in Mexico and the Southwest at the end of the 1800s, late nineteenth century, on the beach, sand, tells about a sailor coming home who is met by his beloved girl, as the ship gets closer to port both the captain and the young man are looking at her, captain almost crashes the ship, see CD 192); 5. Senor don Gil (folk song, about don Gil who has a barrel of chestnuts and a cat trained to get the nuts out of the fire); 6. Don Malero y don Juan (song for children, bilingual, part in Spanish, part in English, with Spanish accent on the English words, language, like shoo fly, don't bother me, I belong to Company G); 7. El senor don Gato (old Spanish ballad, children, romance, Tom cat goes on roof to see a lady cat, falls, breaks ribs, dies, muerte, death, love); 8. La merced de Tome (song about loss of the Tome land grant, those favoring the sale were traitors and opportunists, commentary); El Cerro de Tome, El Cerco de Tome, history); 9. Indita del '84 (Berry sings unaccompanied, the Rio Grande river flood 1884 in Tome; Berry said composer of indita was Manuel Vigil, Manuel Lito Vigil, who had lived in St. Louis, Missouri, was one of first in Tome area to speak fluent English, language, he gave his horses and mares English names, Brown, Nellie, Georgia, etc.); 10. Indita de Cleofas Griego (humorous indita, shepherd with some three hundred sheep, got them mixed up with flock of another shepherd Nazario, eventually they separate them; Berry gives the background for this ballad, commentary).
Dates
- 1970, 1971
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English, Spanish
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 13 boxes (12.25 cu. ft.)
Creator
- From the Collection: Cobos, Rubén (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451