Box 12
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Articles by Ruben Cobos, from August 3 - 31, 1950. In August 3, 1950 he give background and history for the New Mexico cancion or song, explains how some songs were created in New Mexico and others were adopted by New Mexicans from Spain or Mexico, etc. Some local New Mexico songs have the name of the place in the title or in the song, exammples, etc. In August 10, 1950 article, Cobos prints the lyrics for La Facundita, by Mrs. C. M. Jaramillo, Santa Fe, New Mexico, about women, man singing while passing by Alamogordo, love song, garden flowers, followed by the song Ojitos Afortunados, by Mrs. Jose Leon Padilla, of Tome, New Mexico, a love song, woman leaving a man for another, Cobos adds more background on local popular New Mexico songs and then prints the lyrics, text for Los Chimayoses, by Napoleon Trujillo, of Bernalillo, New Mexico, an original New Mexican song about the people of Chimayo, he explains some of the unique words in the song, which are Nuevomexicanismos, local vocabulary, localismos. The August 17, 1950 article has lyrics for the New Mexican song El Burrito de Mora, by Eliseo Martinez, of Raton, New Mexico, refers to the donkey of Don Jose that travels with his load through La Cebolla, Mora, Turquillo, and to the store of Palomon, followed by the song Indita de Cochiti, sung by Abrahan Sanchez, Abran Sanchez, from Las Lagunitas, New Mexico, about a man who loved a girl from Cochiti but she was not true to him. In August 31, 1950 article, Cobos prints the lyrics to the song Perfectita, by Miss Maria Teresina Gallegos, Santa Fe, New Mexico, about a girl who was sick and they gave her liquor to drink and she got a bad name, reputation for it, women, drinking, followed by the lyrics for the song La Gualupita(sic Guadalupita), by Miss Maria Teresina Gallegos, Santa Fe, New Mexcio, a man is leaving for Texas, El Paso or El Rito, leaving his girl behind to say hello to all the men, and lastly the lyrics for El Valse de Honor, by Teresa M. Gurule, La Alameda, New Mexico, one stanza of this song, dancing at the fiesta florida in Santa Fe., August 1950
File — Box: 12, Folder: 16
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:
August 1950