Mike Montoya, Frances Padilla, Laura Nunez, Judy Raby, recorders, 1970, 1971
Item — Box: 2, CD: 195
Scope and Contents
Montoya, 1970: Mrs. M. Montoya, b. 1905, Pena Blanca, NM. 1. Versos a Pena Blanca (folk poetry, poem in honor of the village of Pena Blanca, New Mexico, whose sons can trace lineage to Spanish conquistadores, history); 2. Adios, Pena Blanca (verses in honor of young woman Zenaida Aragon, from Pena Blanca, women); 3. Versos de chiquiao (fair to poor recording, she recites verses from the dance game valse chiquiado, folk poetry); 4. Tres hermanos (folk tale, three brothers seeking future, find a gold nugget, kill and bury younger brother, plant grows on spot, boy's voice sings out, two are punished for crime, murder, muerte, death); 5. Las hermanas envidiosas (a New Mexico version of Three Marvelous Things, from the Arabian Nights, three sisters, one marries king, other two jealous, try to get king to abandon and exile her, king learns truth, executes the evil sisters, unites his family again, women, marriage).
Padilla, 1970: Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. Parts of Emilia Chavez duplicated on CD 101. Good to fair recording. 1. Adivinanzas (six riddes, one about el ano and el mes, calendar, end of the year); 2. Rima infantil (nursery rhyme, las muchachas de don Juan); 3. El burrito (folk song, she recites part of song); 4. La esposa infiel (ballad of unfaithful wife, recited, women); 5. La cubanita (folk song, manlove for little Cuban girl, her parents refuse to give their permission for courting, women, marrige ); 6. Versos y rimas (folk poetry, love song, recited, one about flowers and going off to Mexico, leaving love behind); 7. anecdote (about the young man and cacique and money, candidates running for office in pueblo, politics, Native American Indian, Pueblos); 8. Adivinanza (riddle about calabaza, pumpkin); 9. Juego infantil, children (a different one that on CD 101, game about what is it, la pata como chulito); 10. Rima infantil (rhyme about the luna, moon); 11. Adivinanza (riddle about Antana, a girl, a mother, with a son married to her mother, let her father be free, family ties, marriage, women, possible incest?).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Adivinanza (riddle about una vela); 2. Verso (folk poetry about going to the dance of the Indio Manuel, Native American Indian, and eating tamales and chile, food, leisure).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Rezos (five prayers, one to Nino Jesus, Christ who died on the cross); 2. Verso humoristico (folk poetry about a boy who asked a girl for charity, which was a kiss, love, women, humor) 3. Oremos (Christmas prayer recited by childen, angelitos, going from house to house, asking for candy, gifts, etc., if not they will break windows and doors down, behavior, Navidad).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about the grasshopper, chapulin).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about the gunny sack, el guangoche).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about la toalla, towel).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about the keys, llaves).
Anonymous male, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about death of Abel, Adam and Eve, grandmother is the earth, nature, life).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about el puente, the bridge).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Verso (folk poetry, verse from valse chiquiao, chiquiado, dance game); 2. Ex libris, book plate (Emilia recites an ex libris used up to the advent of World War I, a notice in frontispiece of book, book plate, warning in Spanish to whoever found the book to return it or suffer consequences, language, see CD 170).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about humming bird, chuparrosa).
Emilia Chavez, b.1910, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Trabalenguas (she recites a tongue twister about jaras, reeds from Guadalajara, Mexico, language); 2. Rima infantil (nursery rhyme, about tuerta culeca, children).
Anonymous male, Los Padillas, NM. Verso (verse from Mexican song, Mexico, en una laguna, Mechicoacan en un llano, etc., Michoacan).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Adivinanza (riddle about red and green chile, summer chile, winter chile, food, cooking); 2. Dicho (folk saying, about the rainbow, el ojo del buey, appearing in the west, north or south, weather, rain or dry).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. El burrito (fair recording, folk song, she recited verse about a little burro, contento).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about the axe, la hacha).
Anonymous male, Los Padillas, NM. Verso (fair recording, folk song, one verse of song El vaquero, who was born in Andalucia, Spain, is best cowboy with his ace and saltshaker, happiness).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about la hacha, axe).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Adivinanza (riddle about the pumpkin, calabaza); 2. Adivinanza (riddle about foot stockings, medias).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about el sueno, sleep).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Adivinanza (riddle about el ojo, the eye); 2. Adivinanza (riddle about los frijoles, beans, food, cooking).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about el huevo, egg, food).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Adivinanza (riddle about queso, cheese, fod); 2. Rima infantil (nursery rhyme, to comfort children when hurt, sana, sana, si no sana hoy); 3. Juego de ninos, children (Emilia recites verse from game, un gusanito, pobrecito); 4. Adivinanza (riddle about the cloud, nube, sky); 5. Adivinanza (riddle about oxen and bulls, bueyes, gueyes, and toros); 6. Verso (folk poetry, recites verse of entriega de novios, wedding, marriage); 7. Verso (fair recording, folk poetry, she recites a verse from the valse chiquiao, chiquiado, dance game).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Rezo (prayer to Lord for deliverance from evil).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. Verso (fair recording, folk poetry, recites verse from a Mexican corrido, Desde Mexico ha venido, tinta y papel, para escribir carta, a Isabel).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Versos de bautismo (fair recording, recited, for daughter Mary, two verses of the entriega, baptism); 2. Rezo (prayer, guardian angel, children).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Rezo (Emilia recites prayers in Spanish, the Our Father, Hail Mary, etc.); 2. Canto religioso (fair recording, she sings a hymn to the Virgin Mary and recites another prayer, religion, church, faith).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Adivinanza (riddle about partial rainbow, weather, el ojo del buey, el arco de Noe); 2. Angel de mi guarda (prayer, gardian angel, children).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Verso (fair recording, she recites one verse of folk song, Antonia); 2. Rezo (prayer to Nino Jesus); 3. Rezo (prayer to San Antonio, St. Anthony); 4. En este dia (fair recording, church hymn to the Virgin Mary); 5. San Isidro, labrador (fair recording, recites an alabanza or hymn to the saint, patron of farmers, deliver us from locusts and shivers or quakes, earthquakes, storms, patron of acequias).
Nunez, 1970: Andy Torres, b. 1939, Center, Colorado. 1. Mano Cacahuate, Don Cacahuate (he goes for medicine, stops to gamble, loses everything); 2. Mano Cacahuate (he and Mana Cebolla walking down railroad track to California instead of riding train); 3. Mano Cacahuate (he goes to work, get his pay check, loses it gambling).
Raby, 1971: Frank Nuanes, b. 1914, Old Albuquerque, NM. 1. La Llorona (legend, Frank's version, wailing woman Llorona lost her daughter and is looking for her, women); 2. El diablo suelto (relato, tells account of the Pope in Vatican Rome, found letter some time back, warning devil loose in world, after World War I he will rule the earth for fifty years, religion, church).
Raby, 1971: Eddie Gallegos, b. 1911, Old Albuquerque, NM. El final de San Marcial (fair recording, he sings and recites part of the corrido, ballad, 1929 flood, river, Rio Grande, New Mexico, only building left was Fred Harvey House, railroad, song cut off, see CD 196).
Padilla, 1970: Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. Parts of Emilia Chavez duplicated on CD 101. Good to fair recording. 1. Adivinanzas (six riddes, one about el ano and el mes, calendar, end of the year); 2. Rima infantil (nursery rhyme, las muchachas de don Juan); 3. El burrito (folk song, she recites part of song); 4. La esposa infiel (ballad of unfaithful wife, recited, women); 5. La cubanita (folk song, manlove for little Cuban girl, her parents refuse to give their permission for courting, women, marrige ); 6. Versos y rimas (folk poetry, love song, recited, one about flowers and going off to Mexico, leaving love behind); 7. anecdote (about the young man and cacique and money, candidates running for office in pueblo, politics, Native American Indian, Pueblos); 8. Adivinanza (riddle about calabaza, pumpkin); 9. Juego infantil, children (a different one that on CD 101, game about what is it, la pata como chulito); 10. Rima infantil (rhyme about the luna, moon); 11. Adivinanza (riddle about Antana, a girl, a mother, with a son married to her mother, let her father be free, family ties, marriage, women, possible incest?).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Adivinanza (riddle about una vela); 2. Verso (folk poetry about going to the dance of the Indio Manuel, Native American Indian, and eating tamales and chile, food, leisure).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Rezos (five prayers, one to Nino Jesus, Christ who died on the cross); 2. Verso humoristico (folk poetry about a boy who asked a girl for charity, which was a kiss, love, women, humor) 3. Oremos (Christmas prayer recited by childen, angelitos, going from house to house, asking for candy, gifts, etc., if not they will break windows and doors down, behavior, Navidad).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about the grasshopper, chapulin).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about the gunny sack, el guangoche).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about la toalla, towel).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about the keys, llaves).
Anonymous male, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about death of Abel, Adam and Eve, grandmother is the earth, nature, life).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about el puente, the bridge).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Verso (folk poetry, verse from valse chiquiao, chiquiado, dance game); 2. Ex libris, book plate (Emilia recites an ex libris used up to the advent of World War I, a notice in frontispiece of book, book plate, warning in Spanish to whoever found the book to return it or suffer consequences, language, see CD 170).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about humming bird, chuparrosa).
Emilia Chavez, b.1910, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Trabalenguas (she recites a tongue twister about jaras, reeds from Guadalajara, Mexico, language); 2. Rima infantil (nursery rhyme, about tuerta culeca, children).
Anonymous male, Los Padillas, NM. Verso (verse from Mexican song, Mexico, en una laguna, Mechicoacan en un llano, etc., Michoacan).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Adivinanza (riddle about red and green chile, summer chile, winter chile, food, cooking); 2. Dicho (folk saying, about the rainbow, el ojo del buey, appearing in the west, north or south, weather, rain or dry).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. El burrito (fair recording, folk song, she recited verse about a little burro, contento).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about the axe, la hacha).
Anonymous male, Los Padillas, NM. Verso (fair recording, folk song, one verse of song El vaquero, who was born in Andalucia, Spain, is best cowboy with his ace and saltshaker, happiness).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about la hacha, axe).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Adivinanza (riddle about the pumpkin, calabaza); 2. Adivinanza (riddle about foot stockings, medias).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about el sueno, sleep).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Adivinanza (riddle about el ojo, the eye); 2. Adivinanza (riddle about los frijoles, beans, food, cooking).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Adivinanza (riddle about el huevo, egg, food).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Adivinanza (riddle about queso, cheese, fod); 2. Rima infantil (nursery rhyme, to comfort children when hurt, sana, sana, si no sana hoy); 3. Juego de ninos, children (Emilia recites verse from game, un gusanito, pobrecito); 4. Adivinanza (riddle about the cloud, nube, sky); 5. Adivinanza (riddle about oxen and bulls, bueyes, gueyes, and toros); 6. Verso (folk poetry, recites verse of entriega de novios, wedding, marriage); 7. Verso (fair recording, folk poetry, she recites a verse from the valse chiquiao, chiquiado, dance game).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. Rezo (prayer to Lord for deliverance from evil).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. Verso (fair recording, folk poetry, recites verse from a Mexican corrido, Desde Mexico ha venido, tinta y papel, para escribir carta, a Isabel).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Versos de bautismo (fair recording, recited, for daughter Mary, two verses of the entriega, baptism); 2. Rezo (prayer, guardian angel, children).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Rezo (Emilia recites prayers in Spanish, the Our Father, Hail Mary, etc.); 2. Canto religioso (fair recording, she sings a hymn to the Virgin Mary and recites another prayer, religion, church, faith).
Anonymous female, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Adivinanza (riddle about partial rainbow, weather, el ojo del buey, el arco de Noe); 2. Angel de mi guarda (prayer, gardian angel, children).
Emilia Chavez, b. 1910, Los Padillas, NM. 1. Verso (fair recording, she recites one verse of folk song, Antonia); 2. Rezo (prayer to Nino Jesus); 3. Rezo (prayer to San Antonio, St. Anthony); 4. En este dia (fair recording, church hymn to the Virgin Mary); 5. San Isidro, labrador (fair recording, recites an alabanza or hymn to the saint, patron of farmers, deliver us from locusts and shivers or quakes, earthquakes, storms, patron of acequias).
Nunez, 1970: Andy Torres, b. 1939, Center, Colorado. 1. Mano Cacahuate, Don Cacahuate (he goes for medicine, stops to gamble, loses everything); 2. Mano Cacahuate (he and Mana Cebolla walking down railroad track to California instead of riding train); 3. Mano Cacahuate (he goes to work, get his pay check, loses it gambling).
Raby, 1971: Frank Nuanes, b. 1914, Old Albuquerque, NM. 1. La Llorona (legend, Frank's version, wailing woman Llorona lost her daughter and is looking for her, women); 2. El diablo suelto (relato, tells account of the Pope in Vatican Rome, found letter some time back, warning devil loose in world, after World War I he will rule the earth for fifty years, religion, church).
Raby, 1971: Eddie Gallegos, b. 1911, Old Albuquerque, NM. El final de San Marcial (fair recording, he sings and recites part of the corrido, ballad, 1929 flood, river, Rio Grande, New Mexico, only building left was Fred Harvey House, railroad, song cut off, see CD 196).
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
cswrref@unm.edu
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
cswrref@unm.edu