Folk music -- New Mexico
Found in 488 Collections and/or Records:
El cuando de Pecos, 1958, 2006
Leyba, New Mexico. Quality: Fair.
El cura y el pollo, 1970, 2006
Albuquerque, New Mexico. A priest forgets to tell the cook how he wants his chicken prepared. The cook enters the church while the priest is celebrating mass. In the choir, the cook chants to the priest that he has not told her how he wants his chicken. He answers in Gregorian chant. Date is uncertain. Recited. Quality: Good/Fair.
El cura y la gallina, 1970, 2007 January 1
San Jose, New Mexico. A woman cook forgets to ask the priest how he wants his chicken prepared and sends a girl to church where the priest is saying mass. She asks him in a Gregorian chant how he wants his chicken prepared. In a responsorial manner (also using Gregorian chant), the priest tells her how the chicken is to be prepared. Music used in story. Quality: Good/Fair
El dia de San Juan, 1970, 2006
Socorro, New Mexico. Traditionally, tragedy strikes on St. John's Day (June 24th). In this ballad a youngman, Juan, warns his girl, Micaela, that he is going to kill his rival, Simon. Micaela goes to the dance with Simon. At midnight a shot is heard and two bodies fall, mortally wounded, on the dance floor. They are the bodies of Micaela and Simon. Quality: Good.
El dia que te cases, 1974, 2006 January 1
Rancho de Taos, New Mexico. Jacobo Bernal recites the lyrics of a very poplar late nineteenth-century love song. Recited. Quality: Good
El doloroso tormento, 1958, 2006
Leyba, New Mexico. See item 11.4. Quality: Poor.
El dos de mayo, 1958, 2006
Leyba, New Mexico. Quality: Fair.
El gallo copeton, 1974, 2006
Las Vegas, New Mexico. Mexican song about the cocky little rooster. Quality: good. PLEASE NOTE: this should be number 12 of 12 songs on the audiofile.
El hijo desobediente, 1970, 2006
Socorro, New Mexico. One Sunday before dawn a young man, Felipe, and a rival are fighting. Felipe's father comes upon the scene and tells his son to stop fighting. The young man disobeys his father and a few seconds later falls mortally wounded. Before he dies, Felipe begs his father to bury him out on the prairie. Quality: Good.
El hombre soltero, 1971, 2006
Albuquerque, New Mexico. The recommendation of this song is to stay unmarried as long as possible. Tape speed is incorrect. Quality: Fair.