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Primitivo Trujillo, Mary Gunther, Barbara Tafoya, recorders, 1974

 File — Box: 3, CD: 249

Scope and Contents

Trujillo, 1974: Group of female singers, from Bosque, New Mexico. (See names given above). Buenos dias a la Virgen (Part II).

Trujillo, 1974: Jose I. Baldonado, b. 1889, Bosque, NM. Indita de San Luis (song, they say that a rainbow in the sky is covered in flowers and the Virgin of Sorrows is in the middle, Virgin Mary, Indita de Mogollon, San Luis of my heart, Santo Nino de Atocha. Indita de San Luis Gonzaga de Abaranda).

Trujillo, 1974: Ramon Montano Baldonado, b. 1892, Bosque NM. 1. Cancion, Zancajosa de mi vida (why are you angry, why don't you look at me right?, love, women); 2. Cuna (lullaby, sleep little boy, God will bless you, children) 3. Vida mia, Por que tienes? (song, I promise not to hit you again, I will look for money to make you happy, love, women, violence, abuse, marriage); 4. Adivinanzas (riddles, about axe, wheat); 5. De colores (song, colors seen in spring, birds, rainbows, love, God that doesn't die, divine grace); 6. Cancion (short playful song that says, make my bed); 7. Tu reinaras (song, Jesus rules forever over the heart, homeland, hope, pleasure, prosperity); 8. Cancion (love song, goodbye angel, ruler of my heart); 9. anecdote (true, proven story, speaker says he found one $ million dollars, as a boy, his Mom punished him because she thought he was stealing, family, discipline).

Trujillo, 1974: Porfirio Padilla, b. 1904, Bosque, NM. 1. Seleccion en armonica, harmonica, musical piece (instrumental, sad song about how God punishes one); 2. Short item (difficult to hear); 3. Canciones (song about planting, flowers, garden that causes jealousy, song makes the Virgin Mary cry, clouds pass, second song about going to Chihuahua, Mexico, living well, gets drunk on his way to work on Monday morning); 4. Adivinanzas (long riddles, one about a married couple, another about women of the world); 5. Don Cacahuate (humor, story, cuento, about how he is arrested); 6. Polka (en armonica, harmonica).

Trujillo, 1974: Ramon Montano Baldonado, b. 1892, Bosque NM. 1. Refranes (sayings, dichos, to die of love, to be ungrateful, God, love, romance); 2. Canciones (First, ungrateful woman, freedom. Second song, the beauty of your black eyes, two birds sing, love, women).

Gunther, 1974: Antonio Mondragon, b. 1939, Albuquerque. (Poor to fair recording). 1. Adivinanzas (four riddles, church bell, candle, donkey); 2. Verso.

Tafoya, 1974: Dolores Tafoya, n.d., Manzano, NM. (Some of these songs are found on other CDs, with their better known titles). 1.Cancion, Corrido de Guadalupe Rayos (La Virgen de Guadalupe receive me, appears at the will of God, Virgin of Guadalupe); 2. Cancion, Corrido de El Reenganche (October 22, is in my heart, the day of the reenlistment, reenganche, sign up for labor on the railroad, track labor, employment, Luis and Santiago have to leave to Montanilla, Martin Castillo, is reenganchista, tells them, if it does not go well, they will be paid, see also corrido on CD 248); 3. Cancion, Corrido de Siete de Octubre (October 7, in the Plaza de San Juan, man died, his family is scared, his mother cries, did not bless him, leaves three orphans, and a little sister, goodbye to my beloved parents, death, muerte); 4. Cancion, La Juanita (song that many people would dance to, Bonita Juanita, la la la, I search for a new love, rice plant grows); 5. Cancion, La mancornadora, corrido (song, on a tall mountain in Mexican, Sonora, they killed two friends in a gun fight, death, muerte, crime); 6. Corrido de Jesus Cadenas (Jesus shoots his girl friend, the huera Chavela, for dancing with another man, women, betrayal, death, muerte, crime); 7. Cancion, Un dia (in school, I heard you sing a beautiful waltz in my memory, come to make me happy, I love you, women); 8. Carmelita (cancion, love song, Carmelita leaves, her lover followers her on his horse, Carmelita cries as she sails away); 9. Cancion, Corrido de Rivera (on his horse, the girl friend arrived); 10. Cancion, El vaquero de Kansas (cowboy is killed in an accident in the corral, his mother mourns him, death, muerte, vaqueros, Corrido de Kansas).

Dates

  • 1974

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

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
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