Kiowa Peyote Meeting

Object Details

Local Numbers: FW-ASCH-7RR-2808
General: CDR copy FW-ASCH-7RR-2808 is one of the series of at least six tapes of interviews of Kiowa Indians recorded by Harry Smith (See above). Similar to FW-ASCH-7RR-2807, this tape contains more singing of predominantly sentimental country songs sung by Litha Chesney, this time recorded on 4/24/1964. A few folk songs - or possible folk songs - are A Single Life Choose, Chickasaw Nation, Careless Love and The Cowboys' Christmas Ball. (The latter song is in the Lomax collection, "Cowboy Songs".)

Recorder: Smith, Harry Everett, 1923-1991
Artist: Chesney, Litha, 1888-1974
Collection Creator: Asch, Moses; Distler, Marian, 1919-1964; Folkways Records

See more items in: Moses and Frances Asch Collection; Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / CD / CDR copy

Collection Citation: Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

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Contents: A single life choose--Today I read your old love letters--I wonder if you feel the way I do--Chained to a memory of you--Chickasaw nation--Live and let live--Don't do it, darling--Love gone cold--Careless love--My buddy--Pretty young Annie--Cowboy's Christmas ball (2x)--You can't put that money on my back--I want a good woman

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