a_s1576_15_c84-117 | Favorite Cowboy Recitation -- copyrighted recording of the Cowboy Potery Gathering (Utah Folklife Center) | Sound | Composer Festivals Folk festivals Cowboy poetry Poetic language Oral poetry Cowboys Poets | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Favorite Cowboy Recitation -- copyrighted recording of the Cowboy Potery Gathering (Utah Folklife Center)
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- 1984
- Description
- One audio cassette. See cassette jacket for further descriptions of poetry and authors. This is a copyrighted recording, and no copies can be made from it. Side A "The Cowboy's Prayer" - Owen Johnson, Moccasin, AZ (recited by Gary Stanton); "Strawberry Roan" - Ray Lashley, Syracuse UT (recited by Gary Stanton, originally written by Curley Fletcher); "Zebra Dunn" - Larry Schutte, Maggie Creek Ranch, NV (recited by Gary Stanton); "Shag Brauntay" - Bud Bartram, Stoneham, CO (recited by David Brose); "Home Sweet Home" - Sam Scheyler, Jerome, ID (recited by Gary Stanton); "Murph and McClop" - Harry Taylor, Jackson, WY (recited by Warren Miller); "The Courtship of Young Waddie" - Randy Stowell, Currie, NV (recited by Gary Stanton); "The Flying Outlaw" - Waddie Mitchell, Lee Jiggs, NV (recited by Hal Cannon); "Old Timers" - Ken Trowbridge, Darby, MT (recited by Mike Korn); "Cowboy's Dream" - Dave Ericsson, Wikiup, AZ (recited by Warren Miller); "The Bronco's Twister's Prayer" - Yula S. Hunting, Beryl, UT (recited by Carol Edison). Side B "Sellin Prewitts' Cow" - Baxter Black, Brighton, CO (recited by David Brose); "The Rodeo Trail" - Buck Crofts, Kanab, UT (recited by Carol Edison); "The Kid Solos" - Bob Schilds, Blackfoot, ID (recited by Gary Stanton); "Cows and Logs" - Harold Otto, Pateros, WA (recited by Jens Lund); "Early Morning Roundup" - Owen Barton, Rogerson, NV (recited by Gary Stanton); "The Old Cowman" - Dick Gibford, Meridian, ID (recited by Steve Siporin); "So Long" - Ross Knox, Seligman, AZ (recited by Warren Miller); "Open Range" - Melvin Whipple, Hereford, TX (recited by Jim McNutt); "The Lowly Brawl" - Vern Mortensen, Parowan, UT (recited by Gary Stanton); "Then and Now" - Jack Walther, Lamoille, NV (recited by Gary Stanton); "Cowboys of Yesteryear" - Cecil Moore, Grants, NM (recited by Hal Cannon); "How Many Cows" - Nyle Henderson, Hotchkiss, CO (recited by David Brose); "No Imposter" - Duane Reece, Winkleman, AZ (recited by Warren Miller); "Reincarnation" - Wally McRae, Forsyth, MT (recited by Mike Korn). The Western Folklife Center emerged out of the Utah Folklife Center.
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Florida Song Writers Workshop at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival | Florida Song Writers Workshop at the 1986 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Composer Folklore revival festivals Folk festivals Festivals Music performance Composers Workshops (Adult education) Banjoists Guitarists Musicians Folk singers Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Folk singer Pham Duy at the 1966 Florida Folk Festival | Folk singer Pham Duy at the 1966 Florida Folk Festival | Still Image | Composer Guitarist Folk singers Music performance Folk festivals Performing arts String instruments Guitarists Guitar music Arts, Asian Asians Asian Americans Vietnamese Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Folk singer Pham Duy at the 1966 Florida Folk Festival
- Date
- 1966-05-06
- Description
- One black and white print. Once called the 'Woody Guthrie of Vietnam,' Pham Duy wrote over 1000 songs. Born in Ha Noi in 1921, he trained in Paris in the 1940s. A part of the anti-French resistance, Pham Duy traveled Vietnam learning folk songs, and supporting regime change. In Spring 1966, as part of a cultural exchange program with the US, the 46 year old Saigon resident toured the United States. By the 1980s, Duy resided in California, still writing and performing. This image is of Duy performing at the Florida Folk Festival for the Friday afternoon program on 6 May 1966. A recording of his performance can be found on T77-158.
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a_s1576_63_c96-059 | Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 12) | Sound | Composer Singers Authors Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Oral narratives Personal experience narratives Life histories Arts, Japanese Japanese Americans Arts, Asian Asian Americans Cherokee Indians Composers Poetic language Writing | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
a_s1576_63_c96-060 | Friday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 13) | Sound | Composer Singers Authors Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Oral narratives Personal experience narratives Writing Folklife | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
a_s1576_t77-268 | Interview with ASCAP Charter member Geoffrey O Hara | Sound | Composer Interviews Oral histories Composers Music business Music performance | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Singer Jeanie Fitchen | Singer Jeanie Fitchen | Still Image | Composer Guitarist Folk singers Music performance Folk festivals Performing arts String instruments Guitarists Guitar music Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Singer Jeanie Fitchen
- Date
- 1968
- Description
- Five black and white prints. Often called the 'Queen of Florida Folk,' Fitchen debuted at the Florida Folk Festival at fifteen in 1966 as Eugenia Sisinni. Born in Orlando, Fitchen has played most of the festivals ever since, as well as many others including the Beers' Fox Hollow Festival. In 1999 she was nominated for a Grammy for her album, Roads. The images are of various promotional shots, and of her playing at the festival.
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Songwriter Gordon Rouse and wife Carrie | Songwriter Gordon Rouse and wife Carrie | Still Image | Composer Fieldwork Elderly, the Composers Fiddlers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Songwriter Gordon Rouse and wife Carrie
- Date
- 1985-08-07
- Description
- Two color slides. Images of ordon Rouse, composer of the popular Orange Blossom Special, most famously recorded in the 1960s by Johnny Cash. His wife Carrie stands behind him. Taken at the time of his intevriew; see T86-84, 85 (S 1576).
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a_s2042_sfm_14 | Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Four 5-Minute Features | Sound | Composer Singers Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864 Radio Radio programs Radio programs, Public service Documentaries Radio Composers Folklore and history Life histories Singing Music performance Performing arts Animal tales Storytelling Native Americans Seminole Indians Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Four 5-Minute Features
- Date
- 1961
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. (20 minutes). Four short radio stories: 1. A Story and a Song of Yesterday (4:28) -- story on Foster's first composition, Tioga Waltz. 2. A Song of the South (4:30) -- Story about Foster's song, "I am Gonna Ride the Chariot", with the Amigo Male Singers performing it. 3. A Story of a Song and a Wagon (4:40) -- story behind Foster's "Oh! Suzanna". 4. Seminole Indian Josie Billie, Story and Song (4:45) -- Animal tale by Seminole storyteller Josie Billie. These programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
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a_s2042_sfm_15 | Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Four Short Features | Sound | Composer Curators Archivists Musicians Radio Radio programs Radio announcing Documentaries Radio Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864 Popular songs Commercial songs Composers Folklore and history Life histories Accordion music Arts, Czechoslovakia Oral narratives Storytelling Tall tales Humor Jokes Personal experience narratives Oral education Advertising, Public service Accordionists Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Four Short Features
- Date
- 1961
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. (15 minutes). Four short radio stories: 1. Open Thy Lattice, Love (3:30) -- story behind Stephen Foster's first published song. 2. Fletcher Hodges, Jr. (3:46)-- story about the curator of Foster Hall at the University of Pittsburgh, and author of a Foster biography. Hodges was a native of Indiana, where he was asked in 1932 to curate the Eli Lilly and Co.'s collection of Foster materials (20,000 items). He moved with the collection to the University of Pittsburgh in 1937. 3. Masaryktown (3:45) -- story of the Czechoslovakian community, with Jerry Psenka's music. 4. Lem Griffis (4:00) -- sampler of Griffis' humorous stories; who was from the Okeefenokee swamp in South Georgia (the headwaters of the Suwannee River). He was a regular performer at the Festival. These programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
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