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Vuela, vuela, mariposa by Montano, Felicitas
Tome, New Mexico. See item 9.13. Quality: Good/ Fair.
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Un testamento by Montano, Felicitas
Tome, New Mexico. See item 9.13. Quality: Good/ Fair.
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Los tres hijos by Valles, Bennie
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Three sons leave home. All meet the same old man who asks them (individually) to get him the topmost flower on a tree. Two older brothers get a flower, but not what the man wanted. The youngest brother gets the topmost flower and is rewarded. The two older brother kill and bury him. They put a twig on his tomb. The twig blooms and sings, and eventually the brothers' crime is discovered. Quality:Fair
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Manuel Maes by McGrath, Tom
Las Vegas, New Mexico. In 1873, an Hispanic buffalo hunter, Manuel Maes, is killed while he is out in the Staked Plains. Quality: Good.
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Les contare lo que me paso by Montano, Felicitas
Tome, New Mexico. See item 9.13. Quality: Good/ Fair.
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Me quiero confesar by Padilla, Mrs. Jose de Leon
Tome, New Mexico. See item 9.13. Quality: Good/ Fair.
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Mi Dios y redentor by Gallegos, Rafael
Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico. Recited. Quality:Fair
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Yo no ruego con mi amor by Herrera, Fabian
La Zorra, New Mexico. Quality:Fair
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Tan, tan by Horcasitas de Mendez, Maria
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Quality: Fair.
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Los Chamacos by Ortega, Trinidad
Chimayo, New Mexico. Mexican folk song popularized by Rosales y Robinson on 78 r.p.m. Columbia platters (1918). Recited. Quality: Fair
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El borrachito en el velorio by Vialpando, Martha
Albuquerque, New Mexico. A drunk gets into a home where a wake is being held and, seeing the few candles around the body, begins to sing "Las mananitas," a birthday song. Someone tells the drunk to quiet own, that he is in a wake. The drunk then says that now he understands why there were so few candles for such a large cake. Quality: Good
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Bonitos caracolitos by Montano, Felicitas
Tome, New Mexico. All the songs on reel #51 sung by Felicitas Montano and Mrs. Jose de Leon Padilla come from a notebook that originally belonged to Father J.B. Raillere from Tome, New Mexico (1858-1915) Quality: Good/ Fair.
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Manana se va tu prieta by Padilla, Mrs. Jose de Leon
Tome, New Mexico. See item 9.13. Quality: Good/ Fair.
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Versos de chiquiado by Chavez, Rafael
Vequita, New Mexico. Seventeen verses, many from the dance game valse chiquiado. Quality:Fair
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Reyes Ruiz by Chavez, Rafael
Vequita, New Mexico. Quality:Fair
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Los dos hermanos envidiosos by Gallegos, Cristino
Vallecitos, New Mexico. Two brothers are envious of their younger brother, thus, when the opportunity presents itself, they murder him in the forest and bury his body. Although they return home and tell their father that their brother is lost in the forest, an Indian shows up with a singing flower, which tells of the evil deed of the olders brothers. Quality:Fair
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El tartamudo by Sanchez, Danny
Belen, New Mexico. Untranscribable and untranslatable humorous account of a stuttering simpleton who comes to warn his father that theives are stealing the hog. The only way he can get his message across is by accompanying himself on a guitar as he sings. Quality:Fair
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El piojo y la liendre by Cobos, Ruben
Pojoaque, New Mexico. Recited. See item 7.31. Quality: Fair.
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Indita del Indio Victorio by Montano, Felicitas
Tome, New Mexico. Fragment. Quality: Good/Fair
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untitled by Herrera, Leandro
Chamita, New Mexico. Quality:Good/Fair
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Mama, Mama by Benavidez, Alfredo
Socorro, New Mexico. Recited. Quality: Good.
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La princesa con dos pretendientes by Rubi, Cristina
Belen, New Mexico. Against the king's wish, a princess continues to love a commoner. In the meantime, the queen also courts the commoner with a love song. Song is in the context of the story. Quality: fair.
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Cantada de un viejo y una muchacha by Leyba, Francisco S.
Leyba, New Mexico. Young wife's problems of being married to older husband. Fragment. See item 11.4. Quality: Poor.
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Ojitos Negros by Trujillo, Aurelia
Bernalillo, New Mexico. Uncertain whether this is a song text. Recited. Quality: Fair
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El corrido de aqui y de alli by Berry, Edwin
Tome, New Mexico. Includes commentary. Quality: good/fair.
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- United States 25
- Colorado Springs (Colo.) 11
- New Mexico 8
- Colorado 6
- Rocky Mountains 6
- West (U.S.) 6
- unknown 4
- Iraq 3
- Unknown 3
- Afghanistan 2
- sound recording 1009
- mixed material 1
- New Mexico 832
- Folk Music 504
- Folk music 373
- cancion 303
- alabado 112
- corrido 71
- baile 45
- indita 45
- children's song 39
- valse chiquiado 39