Box 1
Container
Contains 115 Results:
Theresa Valdez, Eugene Romero, Tomas Fernandez, recorders, 1969
Item — Box: 1, CD: 42
Scope and Contents
Valdez: Rafael Gallegos, Rutherton, NM, Rio Arriba County. Entriega de novios (lyrics, recited, marriage, wedding, nearly inaudible). Romero: Miguel Antonio Montoya, b. 1901, San Jose, NM, County unknown. 1. El burro y el leon (folk tale, a donkey and a lion, live on opposite sides of a ravine, donkey shares the pasture of the lion, lion rides on back of the donkey, etc.); 2. Mr. Jack y su caballo (anecdote, breeding a mare with the stallion of Mr. Jack, cattle, horse)....
Dates:
1969
Eileen Dunn, recorder, 1970
Item — Box: 1, CD: 43
Scope and Contents
Dunn: Andres Viera, b. 1920, Albuquerque, NM. 1. El joven de la bolita de hierro (folk tale, this is a very long story, young man leaves home to seek fortune, before he goes has blacksmith cast an iron marble, which he tosses out before him and then follows where it goes into many different adventures); 2. El nino y la vaca (folk tale, a boy, three rascals and his cow, they cheat him on the price of the cow, but he outwits them on the price of a fake magic cap, story ends with a traditional...
Dates:
1970
Eileen Dunn, Helen Cortez, recorders, 1970, 1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 44
Scope and Contents
Dunn, 1970: Jose Procopio Segura y Lucero, b. 1900, Cerro, NM, (near Taos?). 1. Las campanas de la iglesia de Cerro, NM (local history, legend, how the villagers of Cerro cooperated to buy and cast their own bell for church of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, rining the bell, bell still there today; 2. Costumbres de antes (traditions, description of early settlers of Cerro, daily life of the poor, food, cooking, sleeping, health, sanitation, snow shoes, etc., they were rich in their poverty)....
Dates:
1970, 1971
Susan Herrera, recorder, 1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 45
Scope and Contents
Herrera: Leandro Herrera, b. 1901, Chamita, NM. Penitentes (fair recording, Holy Week, Semana Santa service, he reads part of the service, followed by the corresponding alabado, songs, thirteen).
Dates:
1973
Robert Lopez, recorder, 1969
Item — Box: 1, CD: 46
Scope and Contents
Lopez: Frank Ocano, b. 1925, Albuquerque, NM. Cobos noted good language quality on these. Un burro trampo a Tio Ramon (relato, story, Uncle Ramon thrown from donkey and pinned down for several hours). Lopez: David Luna, b. 1918, Albuquerque, NM. 1. La marrana y el tio Ramon (anecdote, while Uncle Ramon is sleeping in an unfinished addition to his home, a sow and all her piglets move in and give him a hard time, pigs); 2. Tio Ramon y los huevos (anecdote, relatives tell how he was...
Dates:
1969
Margarita Sexton, Robert L. Martinez, Maria Zamora, recorders, 1969
Item — Box: 1, CD: 47
Scope and Contents
Sexton: Bernardita Ortiz, b. 1893, Bernalillo, NM. 1. La mona (proverb, female monkey bites into the covering of a walnut, throws away the edible part of the nut, moral maxim); 2. Relacion (mentira, tall tale, verse, cricket drinking wine, monkey and shark fighting and crows that carries a wheelbarrow on its back, animales); 3. Los trabajadores (anecdote, three men looking for work, when boss asks them their names, reply I am living, I will follow, and third, I'll be a fool if I stay); 4....
Dates:
1969
Robent Cobos, recorder, 1970
Item — Box: 1, CD: 48
Scope and Contents
Cobos: Danny L' Esperance, b. 1954, Socorro, NM. Good recording. New Mexico folk songs: 1. Rosita Alvirez, a corrido (at a dance she slights her boyfriend Hipolito, resenting it he shoots her, women); 2. Juan Charrasqueado, a corrido (makes out with all the girls, until one day a the bar the relatives of his last victim kill him, women, love); 3. El hijo desobediente, a corrido (boy Felipe disobeys father, dies in fight with a rival; 4. Gabino Barreras, a corrido (he deflowers many girls, many...
Dates:
1970
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1973
Item — Box: 1, CD: 49
Scope and Contents
Tom McGrath, b. 1887, Las Vegas. 1. Black Jack Ketchum (local history, bandit and gang eat meal at parent's house, take a horse but pay $20 for the meal), first San Miguel County jail cell came from Franklin, Missouri, hanging of Black Jack in Clayton, May 1, 1901); 2. The KKK, Klu Klux Klan (local history, 1913 klan burning crosses in Old Town Albuquerque, among klan members was Mabry, later governor of state); 3. The Santa Fe Trail (local history, Tom born on the trail, Fort Union, personally...
Dates:
1973
Harold B. Tafoya, Julio Duran, recorders, 1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 50
Scope and Contents
Tafoya: 1. Carmelita Espinosa, b. 1907, Del Norte, CO. 1. Como se hace el ojo; 2. Como se cura el ojo; 3. Lo que sucede si no se cura el ojo, (tradition, mal de ojo, children, evil eye, see CD 21B, repeat). Tafoya: Carlos Espinosa, b. 1902, Del Norte, CO, Colorado. 1. Dia de Santiago; 2. Dia de San Juan (see CD 21B, repeat). Tafoya: Andrea Espinosa, b. 1931, Del Norte, CO. Good recording, Costumbres de antes, customs, cambio de comidas, change in foods, building houses,...
Dates:
1971
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1958
Item — Box: 1, CD: 51
Scope and Contents
Cobos: Felicitas Montano, b. 1892, Tome, NM. Good to fair recording. The following songs sung by Felicitas and Mrs. Jose de Leon Padilla, good to fair recording, songs came from a notebook that belonged to Father J. B. Ralliere, Tome, NM, 1858-1915. 1. Bonitos caracolitos (love song, beautiful snails); 2. Tu eres la dicha que yo ambiciono (love song); 3. Preso me llevan a la carcel (ballad, corrido, prisoner on way to jail, prison). Cobos: Mrs. Jose de Leon Padilla, Tome, NM. Ultimo...
Dates:
1958
Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1958
Item — Box: 1, CD: 52
Scope and Contents
Cobos: Francisco Leyba, Leyba, NM. Poor recording. 1. La cucaracha (Mexican American music, popular contemporar song, from the Mexican Revolution; 2. La vaca del condado (folk song about a wandering cow, political satire); 3. El adios a Guayma (folk song, Mexico); 4. Corrido de Aguinaldo (ballad, set in Veracruz, Mexico); 5. La Paulina (love song); 6. Cantada de una muchacha casada con un viejo (folk song, young wife's problems of being married to an older husband, fragment, women); 7. Mi unico...
Dates:
1958
Anonymous, recorder, 1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 53
Scope and Contents
Anonymous: Miguel Aragon, b. 1905, Las Vegas, NM. Good recording. 1. Un cibolo se trago un hombre; 2. Dios por delante; 3. El cazador de patos (see CD 21A, repeat). Anonymous: Edugelia Aragon, b. 1919, Las Vegas, NM. Adivinanzas (good recording, two riddles, see CD 21A, repeat). Anonymous: Miguel Aragon, b. 1905, Las Vegas, NM. 1. Trozo de literatura, literature, dicho; 2. Problema para leer a la inversa, languge; 3. Trabalenguas (tongue twister, language); 4. Dialogo;...
Dates:
1971
Anonymous, Frances Banuelos, recorders, 1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 54
Scope and Contents
Anonymous: Anonymous. Los siete hermanos, poor recording, (the seven little brothers). Banuelos: Sarita Padilla, b. 1907, Anton Chico, NM. 1. Los tres bueycitos (folk tale, variation of story, a witch, a sister and her three brothers, king); 2. La rana puerca (folk tale, three sons, youngest marries a frog who became a princess, other adventures). Banuelos: Rosario Duran, Tierra Amarilla, NM. 1. Good recording. La mar alta (folk tale, variation of prince story,...
Dates:
1971
Frances Banuelos, Audilio Miranda, recorders, 1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 55
Scope and Contents
Banuelos: Rosario Duran, Tierra Amarilla, NM. La Almendrita (Part II). Banuelos: Sarita Padilla, b. 1907, Anton Chico, NM. 1. Las dos hermanas envidiosas, folk tale, continuation of Sopitas de Miel, variation of Cinderella, Part I); 2. El sentidito de oro (folk tale, poor old woman, gives grandson a cow to sell, meets some boys killing a snake, he trades cow for a snake, which has magic powers and gives the boy a golden ear). Miranda: Max Miranda, b. 1901, Veguita, NM....
Dates:
1971
Audilio Miranda, Frances Banuelos, recorders, 1971
Item — Box: 1, CD: 56
Scope and Contents
Miranda: Max Miranda, b. 1901, Veguita, NM. 1. Las gangosas (anecdote, two bandits break into a home and mistakenly kill two sisters who have speech defects, women); 2. Dos compadres hambrientos (anecdote, two men working at ranch, while eating meal, one asked how his father died - reply suddenly); 3. Comin, Coman (folk tale, a man is willing to work for his food and shelter. A rancher takes him up on his offer but is sorry he does when the man asks for his first meal of six cows)....
Dates:
1971