Box 12
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Article by Ruben Cobos, for October 5, 1950, he prints the lyrics, song text for Las Mananas de San Juan, by Epifanio Garcia, of Los Martinez, Martineztown, Albuquerque, New Mexico, communicated to Cobos by Senorita Senaida de Baca, of Albuquerque, about a man and his dark eye girl traveling through many towns in New Mexico, Mexico and United States, he with his guitar, towns of Rio Colorado, Fernando - Taos, Mora, Carrizal, Abiquiu, Lemitar, El Rito, Bernalillo, Saltillo, New York, San Luis, San Elizario, San Miguel del Vado, Socorro Sandia, San Antonio, Durango, Nuevo Leon, Dona Ana, Mesilla, Sombrerete, Albuquerque, Arenal, Altas Lomas - unclear Las Lomas?, and again in Mora, even thought the distances are not correct. Cobos mentions this is a New Mexico song, and notes other songs that have New Mexico place names in the lyrics - Las Enfermedad de los Frios, malaria, El Cuando de Los Estados, and Las Lindas Mexicanas., October 1950
File — Box: 12, Folder: 18
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:
October 1950