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Submitted to the Folklore Archives by USU Folklore students
Originally processed by Tricia Taylor and Randy Williams; updated by Nicole Cornwall, Fall 2011; Heidi Williams, 2014-2015. Finding aid created by Randy Williams, May 2006; updated by Randy Williams, March 2012.
USU Fife Folklore Archives student media collection, 1970-2012. (FOLK COLL 8b: box, item). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.
The collection is organized by date (when known) and collector name.
The Fife Folklore Archives Student Media Collection consists of folklore collected by USU folklore students on cassette tape, microcassette (which were transferred to cassette tapes and one CD for easier listening), VCR tape, color transparencies, and color slides. Most media submissions (2000 forward) accompanied genre collections; however, as most media submissions are connected to more than one genre item, they are housed separately from the transcript. If known, the location of the student genre colleciton is listed. If the professor is known it is listed in parenthesis. The collection is organized by date.
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INFORMATION: [Unknown performer, singing songs she learned from her grandparents/parents that she taught to her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Although no full names are given, some family information is interspersed throughout the tape. The titles of the songs given are from the first line.] Songs: "I had a sweet little doll, dear," "I'm a little Alabama Coon," "Gum Tree Canoe," "My Brother and I look alike, in fact he is my twin," [Grandfather Murdoch sang:] "A skunk came into our backyard," "Brian O'Lynn had a great mare," "I've lost my little grey kitty," "Two little girls in blue;" Finger plays/songs: Up, up in the sky, where the little birds fly," Five little squirrels sat up in a tree," [Taught to Stacey] "My Mother gave me 50 cents to see the elephant jump the fence," "Rub a dub dub said the boy in blue I have a gun and I'll shoot you;" Phrases: [Informant's grandmother said this phrase to her children and grandchildren at dinner] "Let your vittles stop your mouth," [Grandparents and parents said] "I don't give a continental damn!" "[Phrase the informant said to her children that became one of the family slogan. She got it from a book she read about a poor family that had to pick cotton off of bushes that sheep grazed by. It means pay attention to the task at hand; don't wonder off to greener pastures, finish your job.] "Stick to your bush;" Finger plays: "Ring the Bell, Knock at the door," "Here sits Tom Tinker" and more.
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INFORMATION: Grandma's Story; Folk Song.
INFORMANTS: Shelley Nordick, LaNai Greenhalgh, Karlette Rogers, Joanne Goodwin : Camp Songs with Actions. (See: FOLK COLL 8 USU: box 37 item 86-55)
INFORMATION: "Hyrum" Legend.
INFORMATION: Hy's Tack Room: Wild Game Feast, 4 November 1989, (with two-page handwritten paper).
INFORMATION: "Willie the Woodcutter," Folktale.
INFORMATION: J.C.H.'s Skinwalker Story.
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INFORMATION: Rap Shows and the Magic Twelve
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INFORMATION: Animal sounds and Polish folk songs.
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INFORMATION: Pranks.
INFORMATION: Olsen Family Traditions: Item 1: Dale [?] Delight (Old Hunting movie, no sound); Item 2: To Grandmother's House We Go (family singing); Item 3: I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas (Video taped family Christmas Party, 1985, including singing, piano music, and nativity story); Item 4: King Wenceslas reading at LDS Church); Item 5: Story; Item 6: Song For: Grandma and Grandpa (at Reunion); Item 7: 1992 Family Reunion (singing with piano); Item 8: Happy Birthday to Who?
INFORMATION: Conversation.
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INFORMATION: Homemade Holiday Memories.
INFORMATION: The Haunting of Eccles Mansion.
INFORMATION: Dog Naming Tradition, (with 24 color transparencies of tradition: ITEM 6a).
INFORMATION: Personal Experience Narratives.
INFORMATION: Pranks.
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INFORMATION: Family Narratives.
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(see items: FOLK COLL 8b, Box 1, item 15; Box 3, items: 2, 7, 10, 14)
INFORMATION: Swiss Easter Egg Dying (Easter in Southern Utah).
INFORMATION: Halloween Yard Art and Costumes: Wyoming and Logan, North Logan and Smithfield, UT.
INFORMATION: Two women baking (perhaps divinity or cookies of some sort). The names Del Benson and Kerry Steele are hand-written on one slide (unknown meaning).
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INFORMATION: Oakcrest Camp Songs (LDS camp songs) CD 1: Christ is the reason, Down on the Banks, Children of the Light, Horsie Horsie, Linger, Remember, Little green frog, The cat came back, candle on the water, Rainbow Song, Happiness, Little drop of dew, Deep and Wide, Late last night, The Spirit of God, Keeping the flame, I am a child of God, Big blue frog, Liverwurst, Sandman, If all the Raindrops, Little less of me, The court of King Caracticus, Fear not, Chicky-Boomba, I'd like to teach the world to sing, Misty song, Spiders web, Iggle-Wiggle, Little red caboose, The Entli song, Angel song, Every time you act, Katalina Madalina, Oh, Gee I wanna go to Oakcrest, Soft rain, I love to eat, My aunt came back, The Redman, Ann Marie, bottle Pop, Koom bah yah, May the good Lord bless and keep you; CD2: Walk tall, I love to wander, Oh Helena, The skunk song, America, Chicken, Boom-Chicka Boom, House in the Woods, Watermelon song, I wonder when He comes again, Pile of tin, Wadily ott-cha, An Austrian went yodeling, For baby, Father Abraham, Noah song, White wings, The Cloey song, Princess Pat, Weiny man, Bananas unite, God didn't give me much, Happy birthday song (Roxy style), Pass it on, Warm fuzzy, Jello-O, Pioneer, Zimba, Edelweiss, German doctor, Eddy Brown, Perrywinkle store, Clementine, John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Teach me to walk, Zoolo king
INFORMATION: Ultimate Aggie: an interview of two female students who performed the unofficial school tradition/dare to sit on/ride the bull (statue of the USU mascot near the football stadium) naked. (See item: FOLK COLL 8a, Group 1:C, Box 7, Folder 4.2, Item 2.6.10.2).
INFORMATION: Epitaphs: Kay's Fudge (recipe on gravestone), Flower decoration, Graphics describing individual.
INFORMATION: Norwegian Christmas Cookies and Ellen B. Olsen.
INFORMATION: Emily Poulsen, Kristen Poulsen, Tara Poulsen, Serena Von Neiderhouseren, Brinkli Jones, Lisa C. Poulsen
INFORMATION: Lyric Ghost Interviews
INFORMATION: "Oral Narratives - Payson", Negatives of several locations in Utah regarding Non-Religious Supernatural legends
INFORMATION: "Oral Narratives - Payson", Prints of several locations in Utah regarding Non-Religious Supernatural legends
INFORMATION: Interviews about several Legends and Folklore stories (15)