Box 8
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Canciones Mexicanas Viejas, Mexico, recorded by Cobos, Early Mexican songs. Poor recording, no Cobos song list available in Box lid. History - Rosales y Robinson, one of first phonographic records - Duet Rosales y Robinson, by Maximiliano Rosales and Rafael Herrera Robinson. This duet initiated recordings on old discs of 78 rpm and made many recordings in Mexico in the early 1900s with Columbia Phonograph Company. They recorded everyday scenes with titles like El Velorio, Eso soy yo, and other pieces. Beside singing, the duet interpreted dialogues of people and situations in which the characters were police, drunks, charros, mother in law, and other characters from Mexico from the 1900s.
File — Box: 8, CD: MUS 31
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The collection consists of 591 recordings of folk songs, folklore and local histories collected by Ruben Cobos from 1944-1974 in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Also included in the collection are about 270 additional recordings of selected music - a few from New Mexico, many from Mexico and Latin America, and others from Spain, Europe and the U.S. The recordings vary in quality between good, fair, and poor. They contain both musical and spoken content. Most recordings are in...
Dates:
n.d. - 1976