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Box 9

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Venezuela. Good recording. Song list from Box lid in Cobos folder. CD starts with Side two. Merequetengue. 1. El Merequetengue (merequetengue); 2. Devuelveme Mi Costilla (cumbia); 3. Anastasia (merequetengue); 4. Morena de Mis Amores (cumbia); 5. La Mulata Micaela (merequetengue); 6. Vamos Pa La Cumbiamba (cumbia); 7. Cachunga (merequetengue); 8. Son Los Pescadores (cumbia); 9. Dejate de Cuentos (merequetengue); 10. Cumbia de La Juventud (cumbia); 11. A Bailar Merequetengue (merequetengue); 12. Con La Vela; 13. El Loro de Mi Vecina (merequetengue); 14. El Gloton (merequetengue). The rest of the CD repeats Side two, and it is a fair recording. Side one, El Guachamaron, is not recorded in the CD.

 File — Box: 9, CD: MUS 176
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