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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Box
Title
Disks 53-78
Date(s)
- 1936-1939 (Creation)
Extent
26 items
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
This box contains the following items:
Disk 53a: Pourquoi Vouloir [1:55] / 53b-1: Je Suis un Arant Matheureux Dans a Moude [1:23]; 53b-2: Venez a la ronde [1:14]
Cajun songs sung by unidentified male [n.p.] [n.d.]
Owens 212/213
Disk 54a: [Belle Blanc] [2:17] / 54b: [unidentified cajun song] [2:49]
Cajun folk songs sung by unidentified male [n.p.] [n.d.]
Owens 210/211
Disk 55a: Le Grand Mamou [2:26] / 55b: Maun Degas [2:31]
Cajun folk songs sung by unidentified male with accordion accompaniment [n.p.] [n.d.]
Owens 214/215
[note: 55a included in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
Disk 56a: C'est Hip et Taiäu [2:42] / 56b: Mamou Dugas [2:44]
Cajun folk songs sung and played on accordion by Marcelle Comeaux, St. Martinville, LA, December 1936.
Owens 216
[note: song order is reversed from label on disk and CD; 56a included in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
Disk 57a: [Marie Magdeline?] [1:54] / 57b: [Mary?] [1:20]
Cajun folk songs sung by [Madame Trosclair] [Houma, LA] [1938]
Owens 217/218
[note: songs may be included in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
Disk 58a: [Abbeville Two-Step] [0:48] / 58b-1: How Did You Feel? [2:36]; 58b-2: [unidentified cajun song] [0:39]; 58b-3: Allons á Lafayette [0:45]
58a: Cajun folk songs sung and played on guitar by unidentified male [n.p.] [n.d.]
58b: Gospel song sung by unidentified male quartet [n.p.] [n.d.]
Owens 223/224
[note: song order reversed on disc and CD label; 58a included in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
Disk 59a: Cajun [1:36] / 59b: Cajun friend [1:20]
Cajun folk songs sung by unidentified male [n.p.] [n.d.]
Owens 225/226
Disk 60a: Le Roi de Neg ["Oh, way, mon neg"] [2:56] / 60b: Le Roi de Neg ["Mary"] [2:33]
Cajun folk songs "un chanson neg" sung by Calisse Coleman at New Iberia, LA [1938]
Owens 229/230
[note: both songs mentioned in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
Disk 61a: Fair Fanny Moore [2:41] / 61b: The Old Bachelor [1:45]
Folk ballad and song sung by unidentified female [n.p.] [n.d.]
Owens 17/18
[note: both songs included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
Disk 62a: Cajun conversation [2:38] / 62b: [interview with Madame Marie Sonnier and others] [2:48]
Recorded conversation and interview with Madame Marie Sonnier and unidentified men in Scott, LA [1938]
Owens 207/208
Disk 63a-1: French Lullaby [0:34]; 63a-2: Saw an Old Crow [0:28] / 63b: Three Black Crows [2:00]
63a: Folk songs sung by unidentified female [n.p.] [n.d.]
63b: Folk song sung by Samuel Lee Asbury in College Station, TX [n.d.]
Owens 13/14/15
[note: 63b included in "Texas Folk Songs" and mentioned in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."
Disk 64a: The Brown Girl [2:40] / 64b-1: Fair Ellender/The Brown Girl [1:59]; 64b-2: Fair Ellender [0:40]
Folk ballad sung by unidentified female [n.p.] [n.d.]
Owens 12
[note: 39a no audio on CD; song included in "Texas Folk Songs" and "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
Disk 65a: Only a Rose [2:47] / 65b: Song of India [2:51]
[Dubs of commercial 78s of Richard Crooks]
[note: volume dropouts]
Disk 66a-1: Home on the Range [1:35]; 66a-2: [Ever Known [In the Garden] [1:11] / 66b: [I'm Sad and Lonely] [2:27]
66a: Folk song and hymn sung by unidentified male [n.p.] [n.d.]
66b: Folk song sung and played by unidentified male duo [recorded off the radio?] [n.d.]
Owens 12
[note: 66a mentioned in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
Disk 67a: Barbara Ellen [part 1] [2:48] / 67b: Barbara Ellen [part 2] [2:11], 06/05/1939
Folk ballad sung by May Kennedy McCord, Springfield, MO, June 5, 1939.
Owens 3
[note: 67b included in "Texas Folk Songs" and "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
Disk 68a-1: Amor de Mis Amores [1:29]; 68a-2: [La Cancion?] [0:52] / 68b: Choferito [2:00]
68a: Mexican folk songs sung by Alberto Flores [n.p.] [n.d.]
68b: Mexican folk song sung by Alberto Flores and unidentified male [n.p.] [n.d.]
Owens 11
Disk 69a-1: Spanish Fandillo [1:31]; 69a-2: [Humoresque (Passengers Will Please Refrain)] [0:37] / 69b: [The Bastard] King of England [2:08]
Bawdy folk songs sung and played by Brownie McNeil [n.p.] [n.d.]
Owens 11
Disk 70a-1: Cinq Sous [1:31]; 70a-2: [song without words] [1:08] / 70b-1: Toujours Canet [false start] [0:10]; 70b-2: Toujours Canet [1:02]
70a: Cajun folk song sung by Madam Marie Mouton; wordless Cajun folk song sung by Edmond Pellerin, Breaux Bridge, LA [n.d.]
70b: Cajun folk song sung by Edmond Pellerin, Breaux Bridge, LA [n.d.]
Owens 209
[note: songs included in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
Disk 71a: Bury Me Beneath the Willow [1:41] / 71b: Boys in Blue [2:12]
Folk songs sung by unidentified female duo [n.p,] [n.d.]
Owens 36
[note: 71a included in "Texas Folk Songs" and "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."; 71b in "Texas Folk Songs"]
Disk 72a: That's What's the Matter With the Church [2:11] / 72b: By and By [2:05]
72a: Gospel song sung by The Uplifted Four, Old Elam Baptist Church, Hearne, TX [1938]
72b: Gospel song sung by unidentified female with piano accompaniment, Old Elam Baptist Church, Hearne, TX [1938]
Owens 191
[note: both songs in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
Disk 73a: Does You Believe in Haints? [part 1] [2:26] / 73b Does You Believe in Haints [part 2] [2:49] , 02/18/1939
"Negro sermon on gettin' into Heaven" by John Henry Faulk, at Austin, TX, Feb. 18, 1939.
Owens 5
[note: track order is reversed, out of order, on CD]
Disk 74a-1: Don't Stay Away [1:14]; 74a-2:Joh-wan-nie [0:45]; 74a-3: Liza Jane [dance call] [0:18] / 74b-1: Down in the Valley [1:32]; 74b-2: Michael Finnegan [0:29]; 74b-3: Ninety-nine Miles from Home [0:21]
Folk songs sung by various unidentified males [n.p.] [n.d.]
Owens 43/44
[note: 74a-2 included as "Joh-woh-wonny" in "Texas Folk Songs"]
Disk 75a: Mais Jolie Blonde [2:31] / 75b: Mazurka [2:22]
75a: Cajun folk song sung and played by Eric Domingue, vocal and guitar, and Tony Allemand, fiddle, St. Martinville, LA [1938]
75b: Folk tune played by Eric Domingue, guitar, and Tony Allemand, fiddle, St. Martinville, LA [1938]
Owens 219/220
[note: 75a mentioned in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
Disk 76a: Henry Green [2:54] / 76b-1: Keep Your Garden Clean [1:21]; 76b-2: Lovely William [1:06], 06/05/1939
Folk songs sung by May Kennedy McCord, Springfield, MO, June 5, 1939.
Owens 47/48
[note: mislabeled on CD; 76a and 76b "Lovely William" included in "Texas Folk Songs"]
Disk 77a: Old Hundred [2:58] / 77b: It Was De Lawd (Amazing Grace) [1:59]
77a: Gospel hymn lined out by unidentified male and choir [n.p.] [n.d.]
77b: Gospel hymn sung by unidentified quartet at North New Hope Baptist Church, Franklin, TX [n.d.]
Owens 105/106
[note: 77b included in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]
Disk 78a-1: J'ai Passe devant ta Porte [0:38]; 78a-2: [S'ai palette pain?] [0:39] / 78b: Les Trois Soldat des Guerre [1:04]
78a: Cajun folk songs sung by Elmore Sonnier of Scott, LA [1938]
78b: Cajun folk song sung by unidentified female [n.p.] [n.d.]
Owens 221/222
[note: songs out of order on disk label; songs included in "Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song..."]