Boise State University Special Collections and Archives
Ione Love Thielke Recordings and Papers
MSS 271
5 linear feet
10 boxes
1920, 1948-1962
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, collected music and poetry, phonorecords, audiotapes, and photos, chronicling Thielke's work setting poems to music, her live performances and radio broadcasts (mainly in Idaho and the West), and her attempts to break into the national music scene in the early 1950s. Includes ca. 210 phonorecords of various sizes and ca. 30 reel-to-reel audiotapes. Correspondents include poets whose poems she set to music and sponsors of her performances and broadcasts.
The recordings are available digitally.
English
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During the 1940s and 50s, Ione Love Thielke (pronounced Til-key) was known as the Musical Poem Recorder of Cascade, Idaho. She set poems to music--her own poems and poems of others. She sang them before live audiences and on the radio, and recorded them on discs, using a disc recorder she personally owned. She turned her love of music and poetry into a small business, advertising that she would "accept any poem that can be sung and weave for it a fitting melody. She will send the poet an eight-inch record of the song she composes sung by herself, and she will also use the song on her radio programs and public appearances." More often than not, she accompanied herself on the tiple, a mandolin-like string instrument that became her trademark. The Deseret News, of Salt Lake City, Utah, characterized her musical style as a "revival of the original folk song music," and she recorded many poem-songs of a Western nature. Frances Yost in the Soda Springs Sun wrote that her "voice is soft like a thrush, but people hear her, no matter how large the audience. For there isn't any talking going on while Ione sings. It's quiet except for the strum strum and the soft melodious voice. Soon you get the rhythm of her foot as she keeps time and somehow you wish her song would never end."
Ione Love Thielke was born in California in 1903, daughter of James B. and Blanche Love. Her mother taught her how to play the mandolin. According to a 1948 article in the Boise newspaper Statewide (which she annotated as "my 1st write-up"), she lived in California, Oregon, and Texas before coming to Idaho. She also stated that she spent time in Nevada, where she worked with cowhands on the range. "When she appears now in her cow-girl outfit," the Statewide reported, "she wears it with the ease of long practice--a surprise to those who know her only in chic feminine dress."
While living in Cascade with her husband Richard Thielke, she performed at conventions, conferences, and other gatherings in Idaho and elsewhere in the West. The first appearances documented in the collection were in the late 1940s, though a clipping from 1951 stated that she "was one of the first persons to be televised on an experimental TV show held at the World's Fair at Treasure Island in San Francisco in 1939." She had her own radio program on a Weiser radio station and appeared numerous times on KDSH in Boise and other Idaho radio stations. She did some patriotic recordings for the Crusade for Freedom in 1950 and sang songs promoting Idaho agricutlural products for the Idaho Advertising Commission in 1952. In a letter dated March 15, 1952 (Box 1, Folder 6) she described a tour through California, where she made radio appearances and appeared on Del Courtney's television show, out of San Francisco. Later that same year she travelled East, and wrote to her husband of a forthcoming audition in New York with one of Arthur Godfrey's talent scouts. She said the receptionist gave her a "bad time" until someone in the office overheard her say she played the tiple--and immediately scheduled an audition. There is no record, however, that she ever appeared on Godfrey's television program.
In 1953 Ione Love Thielke moved to Mill City, Oregon, to care for her ailing father. She lived in Oregon from then on. Working from Mill City, and then Eugene, she continued to make public appearances and occasional radio broadcasts through the early 1960s. She later married Donald Barnes. Ione Love Thielke died in Eugene, Oregon, in 1979, leaving behind a trove of papers and recordings documenting her musical career.
This collection documents Ione Love Thielke's activities as a musical poem recorder and performer, mainly between 1948 and 1960, but particularly in the early 1950s, when she attempted to break into the national music scene. It contains approximately 210 phonorecords of various sizes, approximately 30 reel-to-reel tapes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, collected poetry from acquaintances around the country, personal photographs, and miscellaneous items that she collected. Many of the correspondents were poets whose poems Thielke recorded; other correspondence relates to arrangements for her appearances and radio programs. Included are an encouraging letter from Spade Cooley (1952) and a letter from her mother recalling the day she married Thielke's father (1944). Her file of collected poems includes several written by her father (Box 1, Folder 37).
The bulk of the collection was donated by Ione Love Thielke's stepson, Dr. Dexter Barnes, of Seattle, Washington, in 2009. An additional album of her records, found at a yard sale, were donated by Cathy Furniss, of Blackfoot, Idaho, also in 2009. Both donations were facilitated by P. Gary Eller, who rediscovered Thielke's largely-forgotten work during his research on Idaho folk music. He included one of her musical poems ("Rainbow Stallion of the Owyhees") on his CD "Idaho Songbag," issued by the Idaho Humanities Council in 2010.
In 2014, Special Collections and Archives received an $11,747 grant from The GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program to digitize Thielke's recordings. By digitizing and making the recordings freely available online, researchers and the public have access to a portion of never-before-accessible Idaho music. The grant was written by Cheryl Oestreicher, head of Special Collections and Archives, with assistance from local musician and historian Gary Eller. The recordings are available digitally.
Collection is available for research.
Digital versions of the recordings are available.
Gift of Ione Love Thielke's stepson, Dr. Dexter Barnes, Seattle, Washington, 2009; supplemented by a gift of 9 more records by Cathy Furniss, Blackfoot, Idaho, 2009.
[item description], Ione Love Thielke Recordings and Papers, Box [number] Folder [number], Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.
Only current damaged copies with digital audio:
R-232, R-238 (potentially R-220?)
All other damaged copies have no audio
Other missing digital audio:
R-211 (appears to be undamaged but not digitized), R-219 (mostly blank disc)
R-22 may match audio file for R-220
Missing copies:
R-038 (appears to exist but to be actually missing) (has audio)
Records that need to be rehomed + stored upright eventually:
R-232 and R-238 (12" records, damaged)
Box #9 all (6.5"-10" records, damaged, could be stored with R-232 and R-238 potentially)
Deteriorating records (especially acetate) should not be stored with better-preserved records. (Especially other better-preserved acetate records)
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Archivist's Research
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Biographical Material: Ione Love Thielke
1951-1962
1
1
News Articles: Ione Love Thielke
1948-1955
1
2
Programs for Performances
1954-1960
1
3
Material for Radio Show
1950-1951
1
4
Receipts and Legal Papers
1
5
Correspondence: Letters by Ione Love Thielke
1951-1952
1
6
Correspondence: Art Publication Society
1920
1
7
Correspondence: Esther A. Brubacker
1947-1949
1
8
Correspondence: Jim Bullington
1950
1
9
Correspondence: Virgil Clark
1
10
Correspondence: Spade Cooley - "The Spade Cooley Show"
1952
1
11
Correspondence: Cora Dreyer
1948
1
12
Correspondence: Mary Edmunson
1
13
Correspondence: Dorothy Garrison
1959
1
14
Correspondence: Edith Goodwin Hayes
1949, 1956
1
15
Correspondence: Lee Heller, C.G. Rice - Idaho Advertising Commission
1952
1
16
Correspondence: Aloys Hof - American Legion Auxiliary, Idaho
1952
1
17
Correspondence: Caroline Hohmann - Elmhurst Park District ("Music Under the Stars")
1952
1
18
Correspondence: Gail Johnson
1947
1
19
Correspondence: Lamont Johnson
1951-1959
1
20
Correspondence: Don Jones - KWEI Inland Broadcasting Company
1950
1
21
Correspondence: Marvin Kahn, J.M. Carr - Veterans Administration
1952
1
22
Correspondence: Mary S. Kinney
1948
1
23
Correspondence: Mary Krenk
1959
1
24
Correspondence: B.M. Love (Ione's Mother), Mother and Father's Marriage License Enclosed
1944
1
25
Correspondence: Mrs. Virgil Rogers
1953
1
26
Correspondence: Earl Slade Jr., Ross Woodward - KDSH
1951
1
27
Correspondence: Bess Foster Smith
1948
1
28
Correspondence: Lilly Stokes
1952
1
29
Correspondence: Merrill Tonning
1956
1
30
Correspondence: Faith Turner
1948
1
31
Correspondence: Unidentified Authors
1
32
Personal and Copied, Music and Poems
1
33
Composed and Transcribed Music, First News Article Appearance
1
34
Collected Poetry: Esther Brubacker, Mary Edmunson
1
35
Collected Music and Poetry: Edith Goodwin, Lamont Johnson, Mary S. Kinney
1
36
Collected Music and Poetry: Doris M. Kirkpatrick, James B. Love (Ione's father), Gerald G. Sigler
1
37
Poetry and Music: Unidentified Authors
1
38
Collected Poetry - Copies
1
39
News Article - Copies
1
40
Issues of Statewide and Brewery Gulch Gazette w/ Thielke Profile
1948
1
41
Material for Keep Oregon Green
1
42
Miscellaneous
1
43
Photographs
1
44
Materials in OS Box w/ R-229 through R-238
1
45
Original Annotated Sleeve for "That Pest" and "Buffalo Smith"
1951
2
1
Original Annotated Sleeve for "Unfurl Your Flags America"
1950
2
2
Original Sleeves Unannotated
2
3
CD
2
4
News Articles on Ione Love Thielke: Annotated
1948-1955
2
5
News Articles
2
6
Poetry: Collected Materials
2
7
Miscellaneous: Idaho Writer's League, Notes, Publications, Articles, etc.
2
8
New Verse Magazine
1949 January - 1951 October
2
9
The Poet: A Monthly Devoted to Contemporary Verse
1947 November - 1948 October
2
10
Correspondence: Envelopes
1934, 1944, 1948-1953, 1956, 1959
2
11
6 1/2" Discs
An Astoria Gathering of Love
1946
3
R-002
Astoria, Oregon
Aloha; Piano
3
R-003
In Boise
Idaho's at End of the Rainbow
1948
3
R-004
Autumn's Here; Down In Dutch Creek Valley
1949
3
R-005
Youngstown, Ohio
Performer/Composer: Autumn's Here by M. Meyer; Down in Dutch Creek Valley by Ben H. Smith | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
A Robins Song; Penthouse In My Dreams
3
R-006
Ace In The Hole; A Talk On Strawberries and Sand
3
R-007
Dick and the uke
Writer/Poet: Dick Thielke
By a Quonset Hut; The Musical Recorder of Cascade Idaho- Adv.
1948
3
R-008
Cecil Thorpe Story
1950
3
R-009
Conquering the Snake; The Song of Hells Canyon
3
R-010
Cut On To La Grande
3
R-011
Cutting Lessons
3
R-012
No Good
I. Farewell; II. Best, Farewell Old Churl
3
R-013
For Him; Salmon River Savage
3
R-014
Performer/Composer: For Him by Esther Brubacher; Salmon River Savage by Mary Edmundson | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Its Not the Real Gold
3
R-015
Very Best
Jeanette and Oscar; Dolores and Maureen
1951
3
R-016
Kalkoska Roar; The Land That God Forgot
3
R-017
In Boise
Kalkoska Roar
3
R-018
In Boise
Lesson On Sweeping
3
R-019
No Good
Land of The Spanish Trail
3
R-020
4/4 time
Mountain Moon
3
R-021
Rainbow Stallion of the Owyhees; Salmon River Savage
4
R-022
Hells Canyon [Furniss Donation]
Music of the Hills; Salmon River Savage; The Land That God Forgot
1948
3
R-023
Performer/Composer: Music of the Hills and Salmon River Savage by Mary Edmundson; The Land that God Forgot by E.A. Brubacher
Montana! Montana!; In the Land of Shining Mountains
1948
3
R-024
Montana! Montana! recorded April 29, 1948. In the Land of Shining Mountains recorded June 21, 1948
Performer/Composer: Mary S. Kinney | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Name was Bill; Dream Valley
3
R-025
Radio
Performer/Composer: "Name was Bill" by Ione | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Old [?] Radio KDSH
1952
3
R-026
Boise, Idaho
Pirates Gold; Plain and No Name
3
R-027
Pirates Gold
3
R-028
Best Side
Shopping For Xmas; Cotton Blossom Gin
3
R-029
Fryers-no good; Fryer, Ione and Ethel
Susie
3
R-030
D.B
Song of Hells Canyon; Unfurl Your Flags America
3
R-031
Salmon River Savage; River Magic
3
R-032
Shotgun Wedding; Riding Fence All Day
1949
3
R-033
Effects
Texas Tyler, Deck of Cards
3
R-034
Performer/Composer: T. Texas Tyler
To The Wind
1949
3
R-035
Watching a Pine in a Storm; Cutting [Thyer?]
3
R-036
unidentified
3
R-211
8" Discs
April Showers; Say that We're Sweethearts Again
1948
4
R-037
April Showers recorded 12/10/1948, Say that We're Sweethearts Again recorded 12/9/1948
Performer/Composer: April Showers by Al Johnson Say that We're Sweethearts Again by Dorothy Sh[?]p
All the Kids in the Neighborhood
4
R-038
Physical disc is missing.
Apartment House Blues; Singing Hearts
4
R-039
A Potato Train
1951
4
R-040
[on sleeve] To Dad, August 1, 1951
All Roads Lead to Bancroft; The Little Rustic Chapel in the Hollow
4
R-041
Performer/Composer: Francis Yost | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
accordions
4
R-042
By the [blank] ; Hope
4
R-045
Duet
Cascade Hills; Sat. Night Hayride
4
R-046
Grays Eluogy
4
R-048
Dad, Duet with self, Dad-Mr. J. B Love
[I sing?] In Strings
4
R-049
Dark Moon; I'll Be Thinking of You
4
R-051
Extra, Extra The News Boys Serenade; Mans Best Friend
1951
4
R-052
Performer/Composer: Gerald Sigler
Shine On My Moonbeam; [...you didn't know?] With You I'd Settle for That
1950
4
R-053
Dick and Ione talk at end
Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
For Me; Dammed If I'll Be Lonely
4
R-054
Performer/Composer: For Me: Words and Music by Gerald G. Sigler; Damed If I'll Be Lonely: Words by G. Sigler, Music by Ione Love Thielke | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Farewell Old Rustic [Chapel?]; Shotgun Wedding
4
R-055
me
Gary Owens Farewell
4
R-056
Hope Ever Blooms Again; The Cascade Hills
4
R-060
Writer/Poet: Hope Ever Blooms Again composed by James B. Love, Performed by Billy Love. The Cascade Hills composed, played and sung by Billy Love
Hells Canyon; Give Me An Idaho Trail; Laughing; My Vacation
1950
4
R-061
Hope Ever Blooms Again; Dance music by Old Timers of Calgary, Canada
4
R-062
No Vocal (Hope Ever Blooms Again)
Performer/Composer: Hope Ever Blooms Again: Lyrics by James B. Love | Writer/Poet: Hope Ever Blooms Again: Music by James B. Love, Performed by Jeanette Davidson
Edwards, Hawaiian
4
R-063
I Love This Little Guy; In Sing [?]
4
R-064
Good
I'm A Wanderin Guy-Good; I'm a Wanderin Guy-Mistake
4
R-065
A: Good; B: Mistake
A: In the Land of Big Potatoes; B: To The Winds
4
R-066
A: 6/16/1948; B: 2/22/1949
Performer/Composer: A: Mary S. Kinney; B: E.A. Brubacher | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
A: In the Land of Big Potatoes; B: In Lilac Time
4
R-067
Performer/Composer: A: Mary S. Kinney | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Idaho's At the Edge of the Rainbow
4
R-068
Performer/Composer: Mary S. Kinney | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Idaho's At the Edge of the Rainbow; In the Land of Big Potatoes
1948
4
R-069
Performer/Composer: Mary S. Kinney | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
In the Land of Big Potatoes; My Wife
1948
4
R-070
Performer/Composer: Mary S. Kinney; [A.Z.?] Perry | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Ivory Palaces; When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder
4
R-071
Ivory Palaces; When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder
4
R-072
Writer/Poet: Performed by: Fern Gould
In Land of Shinning Mountains; Old Branding Iron
4
R-073
Montana
In A Moonbeamed Olive Garden; Homesick
4
R-074
[Tryer?]
In the Land of the Spanish Trail; Jeff
4
R-076
Performer/Composer: Lamont Johnson; --
Keep Idaho Green; Oh the Salmon River Whispers
1951
4
R-077
Performer/Composer: Gerald Sigler | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
In the Land of the Spanish Trail; Unless They're Mind
4
R-078
Performer/Composer: Gerald Sigler; Edith Hayes
Live and Let Live; My Pretty Qu
1949
4
R-079
Steiners
My Sweetheart Where's the Khaki; West Mt.
4
R-080
My Rose of Mexico (radio); You Can't Do Anything but Cry (radio)
4
R-081
Minnesota Moon; Tall Tree
1952
4
R-082
My Pinto and I; I'm A Wandering Guy
4
R-083
Mans Best Friend; Extra Extra
4
R-084
My Pinto and I; Wandering Guy
4
R-085
Performer/Composer: Bill Love | Writer/Poet: Bill Love
Old Sod Shanty
4
R-089
Old Branding Iron
1950
4
R-090
Please Keep Idaho Green; O Give Me An Idaho Trail
4
R-091
Performer/Composer: E. A. Brubacher | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Rocky Mountain. Blues; Always
4
R-092
River Magic; Lets Put Our Dreams Together
1949
4
R-093
Reminiscing
4
R-095
Remember Me; Tear Drops In My Heart
1949
4
R-096
Performer/Composer: Autumn's Here by M. Meyer; Down in Dutch Creek Valley by Ben H. Smith | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Somewhere In the Pacific; To the Winds
1950
4
R-097
My Swiss Misses Me; Will You'd Settle For That
1949
4
R-098
Sure I Love You Dear; Down By Mill Stream; Hope Ever Blossoms Again
4
R-099
Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke & James B. Love
Sure I Love You Dear; Hope Ever Blossoms Again
4
R-100
Writer/Poet: James B. Love
Silver City; The Land That God Forgot
1949
4
R-101
Performer/Composer: E. A. Brubacher | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Spanish ? ?; Sod Shanty on the Claim; On the Banks of the Wabash
4
R-102
Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke & James B. Love
Sure I Love You Dear; Hope Ever Blossoms Again
4
R-103
Writer/Poet: James B. Love
Shotgun Wedding; My Vacation
4
R-104
Performer/Composer: Don Pajamas; Fanny ? | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Spring Time in the Rockies; Sod Shanty On My Claim
4
R-105
Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke; James B. Love
Somewhere In the Pacific; Buck Nation
1950
4
R-106
To the Winds; What Ain't You Seen the Sunrise
4
R-107
Writer/Poet: Dick Thielke
The Land That God Forgot; Rainbow
4
R-108
The Cowboys Prayer
5
R-109
T. Texas Tyler; Bobbie Lee Johnson
1950
5
R-110
Tumbleweed; Sympathy
5
R-112
Old Mill Stream
5
R-113
This the Hour Ross; Roberta Hall revealing her secret pal "Mrs. Hasbrook"
1949
5
R-114
The Artists Den; Little Hands Across the Sea; Scottish Road To the Isles
1949
5
R-115
Performer/Composer: For Him by Esther Brubacher; Salmon River Savage by Mary Edmundson | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
The Sweet Bye and Bye
5
R-116
There's An Echo in Silver City
5
R-117
Writer/Poet: Dick Thielke
Unless They're Mine
5
R-118
Performer/Composer: Edith Hayes
Will You Waltz; Huston Mustang; Mrs. Callerdu You Can't Print That
5
R-119
Performer/Composer: ?;?; Norman R. Jeffrey
Watching A Pine In A Storm
1951
5
R-120
Won't You Come Over To My Place etc…
5
R-122
unidentified
6
R-205
unidentified
6
R-206
unidentified
6
R-207
unidentified
6
R-208
unidentified
6
R-209
unidentified
6
R-210
That Pest the Household Fly; Buffalo Smith
6
R-221
Pocatello, Idaho [Furniss Donation]
Performer/Composer: Doris M. Kirpatrick | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Come to Shore Lodge in Idaho; I. I'd Settle for That II. Bowl of Rice
6
R-222
[Furniss Donation]
Shot Gun Weddin; Farewell Old Rustic Churl
6
R-223
N.Y. [Furniss Donation]
That Little Rustic Chapel in the Hollow; The Land that God Forgot
6
R-224
[Furniss Donation]
In Singapore; Somewhere in the Pacific
6
R-225
[Furniss Donation]
The Old Branding Iron; Andy
6
R-226
[Furniss Donation]
10" Discs
Arizona Beautiful; Rainbow Stallion
5
R-124
Arizona Beautiful; Winds of Night
5
R-125
A Sentimental Grandma; My Vacation
1950
5
R-126
A Rolling Stone; Maybe You'll Remember
5
R-129
Writer/Poet: Wayne Meusey
Back West To Home; The Phantom Riders
5
R-130
Performer/Composer: Lamont Johnson; Esther Brubacher | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Back West To Home; The Phantom Riders
5
R-131
Performer/Composer: Lamont Johnson; Esther Brubacher
Back West To Home; The Phantom Riders
5
R-132
Performer/Composer: Lamont Johnson; Esther Brubacher | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Back West To Home; Last Trail; O Give Me An Oregon Trail; The Man In Gold; Please Keep Oregon Green; The Phantom Riders
5
R-133
Barnacle Billy Sailor; Granddads ? (Buck Nation)
5
R-134
Behind the Parlor Door; You Are the Red, Red One; Robin; Honey Bee; When the Sun Goes Down Again; To The Wind (Buck Nation)
1949
5
R-135
Barnyard and Follies; Indiana Moonlight; Leaning On the Old Top Rail; Sugar Babe
1948
5
R-136
Capitol Dome; On the Oregon Trail; Back West to Home
5
R-137
Don't Cry Little Onion; Down Among the Taters and Onions
5
R-138
Don't Cry Little Onion Don't Cry; Mr. Russet
5
R-139
Don't Cry Little Onion; Our Uncle Joe of Idaho
5
R-140
? At Rest
1948
5
R-141
Performer/Composer: Mary S. Kinney
Give Me An Oregon Trail; When its Camellia Time in Santa Barbara
5
R-142
Performer/Composer: Esther Brubacher; Ione Thielke | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Go Along Mule Each Minute is a Million Years
1949
5
R-143
Performer/Composer: | Writer/Poet: Buck Nation
Eastertime; Pretty Rag Doll
5
R-144
Performer/Composer: Joe LaRocco; Merrill D. Tonning | Writer/Poet: Mary Lou Collins
Help Keep California Green; Back West to Home; Winds of Night; Arizona
5
R-145
Hang Out the Front Door Key; Galway Bay
5
R-146
Writer/Poet: Ezra Harrison; Dora Truman
Home Sick For You; Reminiscing
5
R-147
Home Sick For You; Reminiscing
5
R-148
Hells Half Acre; Down ? the Trails of Sageland; West Mountain
5
R-149
Performer/Composer: ?
In the Land of Big Potatoes; Idaho's At the End of the Rainbow
5
R-150
I'll Remember You Love In My Prayers; Daises Won't Tell Dear; Sweet Bunch of Daises; Carry Me Back to Tennessee
5
R-151
Performer/Composer: James B. Love
In the Valley of Caribou; Longing For Home
5
R-152
I Don't Know Why I Love You Like I Do; If You Call Everybody Darling; Old Hawaii; Tahitian Love Song
1948
5
R-153
In Lilac Time; The Cowboy Prayer
1948
5
R-154
Performer/Composer: Ben H. Smith (Jonesboro, Il); Badger Clark
Keep Idaho Green
5
R-156
Longing For Home; In the Valley of Caribou
5
R-157
Performer/Composer: Edith Hayes
Listen to the Mocking Bird; The Old Oaken Bucket
5
R-158
Longing For Home; In the Valley Of Caribou
1956
5
R-161
Performer/Composer: Edith Hayes | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Mans Best Friend
5
R-162
Merry Xmas Everyone; I Want to Wish You All a Merry Christmas
1949
5
R-163
Performer/Composer: Ethel Poe; ? | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Montana Montana; In the Land of Shining Mountains; Montana High Ho
1950
5
R-164
Performer/Composer: Mary S. Kinney | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
My Best to You; Far Away Places (Perry Como)
1949
5
R-165
My Dream Love Kissed Me Then; The Fragrance of Love
5
R-166
Performer/Composer: James B. Love | Writer/Poet: Jeanette Davidson
Mans Best Friend; So Much Depends Upon the Poppy
5
R-167
Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Old Stepstone; 40 Years Ago
1950
5
R-168
Performer/Composer: ?; MS Guffys Sixth Reader | Writer/Poet: James B. Love
O Give Me an Oregon Trail; The Man In Gold; Please Keep Oregon Green
5
R-169
Performer/Composer: Esther Brubacher; Ione Thielke; Ione Thielke | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Please Keep Oregon Green; The Man In Gold; Unfurl Your Flags America
5
R-170
Rainbow Stallion of the Owyhee's
5
R-171
Performer/Composer: Mary Edmundson | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Rogue River Valley
5
R-172
Performer/Composer: Gary Sigler
Rainbow Stallion; Arizona Beautiful
5
R-173
Riding Fence All Day
1949
5
R-174
Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke and Jerrold Steiner
Rain; In Memory
5
R-175
Rainbow & Andy; Huston Mustangs
6
R-177
Performer/Composer: Mary Edmundson | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Rainbow Stallion of the Owyhee's; Salmon River Savage; The Land That God Forgot
6
R-178
Performer/Composer: Mary Edmundson; Mary Edmundson; Esther Brubacher | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Rainbow; Rainbow and Andy
6
R-179
Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke and ?
Rainbow Stallion of the Owyhee's; Singing Hearts; The Land That God Forgot; Tombstone Arizona; Phantom Riders
6
R-180
Performer/Composer: Mary Edmundson; Bess Foster Smith; Esther Brubacher; ?;?
Someday I'll Wonder Back Again; Above the Bright Blue
6
R-181
Performer/Composer: For Him by Esther Brubacher; Salmon River Savage by Mary Edmundson | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Shine On Mt Moonbeam; What You Didn't Know
6
R-182
To the Wind; The Old Branding Iron
1949
6
R-183
Performer/Composer: ?; Esther Brubacher | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke and Jerrold ?
Two Little Girls In Blue (Buck Nation); Tumbling Tumbleweed (Buck Nation); ? of San Jose (Eddy Dean)
1949
6
R-184
To the Wind; The Old Branding Iron
1949
6
R-185
The Man In Gold; Keep Oregon Green
6
R-186
Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Roberta Hall
6
R-189
To the Winds; The Old Branding Iron
1949
6
R-190
Performer/Composer: Esther Brubacher | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
The ? Family; ?
6
R-191
Winds of Night; When its Camellia Time in Santa Barbara
6
R-192
When I Write My Song; Drifting Dreaming
1949
6
R-194
Unfurl Your Flags America; ?
6
R-195
You Can't Be True Dear; West of the Alamo; Postman's Letter
6
R-196
Back West to Home; Capital Dome; On the Oregon Trail
6
R-197
Back West to Home; Capital Dome; Oregon Covered Wagons; ?
6
R-198
Capitol Dome; Please Keep Oregon Green; Back West to Home
6
R-199
The Homestead Fly
6
R-200
In Singapore; Phantom Riders; In Idaho When; Salman River Savage
6
R-201
Desert at Rest; What You Didn't Know; With You I'd Settle for That
6
R-202
unidentified
6
R-203
unidentified
6
R-204
unidentified
6
R-217
unidentified
6
R-218
Blank disc
6
R-219
Home Sick For You; Reminiscing
6
R-227
[Furniss Donation]
[Unfurl Your Flags America]
1950
6
R-228
[Furniss Donation]
unidentified
6
R-231
12" Discs
Performer/Composer: Music of the Hills and Salmon River Savage by Mary Edmundson; The Land that God Forgot by E.A. Brubacher
Sacramento Interview, Ione with Jeanne De Vivier - At Your Service; Virgil Clark (Wife of D. Worth Clark) interviewing Ione, KIDO Boise
9
R-232
Performer/Composer: Mary S. Kinney | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
In the Land of Big Potatoes
9
R-233
Performer/Composer: "Name was Bill" by Ione | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
KDSH-Dan Dodds and Ione Love Thielke on one of her 1st radio programs
9
R-234
Rainbow; We're Ridin' to Roundup the Doggies
9
R-235
Don't Cry Little Onion; Song of the West Enchanted
9
R-236
This recording was made in Long Island at the Reco Cut factory; noise in background is the factory.
Rainbow Stallion; Winds of Night
9
R-237
Bad Cut; Guest of June Virgil Clark (Wife of D. Worth Clark) June 13, 1952
1949
9
R-238
KGEM Boise, 10/15/1949
Deteriorating but has digital audio.
Other Size Discs
[Ione Thielke at the Golden Gate International Exposition] (5" disc)
1939
3
R-001
Ione Thielke, Golden Gate International Exposition
Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
The Song of Hell's Canyon; Come to Shore Lodge In Idaho (5" disc)
1950
3
R-230
Performer/Composer: Ione Love Thielke | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
[Poetry Day] (16" disc)
9
R-229
1945 [on envelope]
unidentified
3
R-213
unidentified
3
R-212
unidentified
3
R-214
Reel-to-Reel
Stepstone; Maple On the Hill; Some Day I'll Wonder Back Again; Forty Years Ago; Above the Night Blue
1950
7
T-001
Writer/Poet: James B. Love
Radio Programs
1950
7
T-002
Dec. 13th 6:30-6:45 p.m.; Oct. 21st- Halloween program, Ione Love Thielke
Radio Programs
1950
7
T-003
Wed.-Dec. 6th 6:30-6:45 p.m.; Wed.-Dec. 20th 6:30-6:45 p.m.; Wed.-Dec. 27th 6:30-6:45 p.m. Ione Love Thielke
Radio Programs
1950
7
T-004
Wed.-Nov. 8th 6:30 p.m.; Wed.-Nov. 15th 6:30 p.m. Ione Love Thielke
Poetry Day Radio Program
1950
7
T-005
Oct. 5th-15 minutes; Regular Radio Program Oct. 15th-14 minutes Ione Love Thielke
Radio Programs
1950
7
T-006
Nov. 1st-14 3/4 minutes; Wed.-Dec. 3rd 6:30-6:45 p.m. Ione Love Thielke
Back West to Home; Along the Oregon Trail; Last Trail; Give Me an Oregon Trail; The Man in Gold; Keep Oregon Green; Phantom Riders; Caribou: Back Home; Liberty Bell; When It's Camellia Time in Santa B; Winds of Night; Arizona Beautiful
7
T-007
Western Radio Programs made to fill in for Ione Thielke for Radio Program of Musical Poem Recorder of Cascade Idaho
7
T-008
14 minutes, 55 seconds; 14 minutes, 40 seconds Ione Love Thielke
Please Keep Idaho Green; Silver City; Last Trail; For Him; Just An Old Branding Iron; The Land that God Forgot; Sing A Song of Silver City; O Give Me An Idaho Trail
7
T-009
Performer/Composer: Ione Thielke (Please Keep Idaho Green) Esther Brubacher (all but the first song on tape)
Thanksgiving Day Program
7
T-010
Wed.-Nov. 22nd 6:30-6:45
Performer/Composer: Mary Edmondson and Ione Love Thielke
Radio Program
1951
7
T-011
Wed.-Jan. 24th 6:30-6:45- travel from Cascade to Mill City
Performer/Composer: Ione Love Thielke
Radio Programs
1951
7
T-012
Wed.-Jan. 17th 6:30-6:45; Wed.-Jan. 10th 6:30-6:45
Performer/Composer: Ione Love Thielke
Old Branding Iron; Good; Way Down Upon- ?; By the Old Red Mill; Hope Ever Blossoms Again; The Land that God Forgot; Remin-?; K on E ? Boise, T. Texas Tyler; Galoway Bay (Bobbie Lee age 11); Homesick
1950
7
T-013
Writer/Poet: various artists, not all songs labeled
End of Tuna Luna Luna; Be Yours Again; Indian Love Call; Washer Women; Rubber Dolly; Dreaming Now of ?; Two Step or the Like; I Like Mt. Music (mandolin); Oh Aliza; Spanish Fandango; Columbia Gallopade; In A Moonbeam Olive Grove
7
T-014
Writer/Poet: various artists
Virgil Clark Tape
7
T-015
Interviews at KSEI and another radio station of Pocatello at the 1951 Idaho Writers Convention
1951
7
T-016
Winds of Night (whistled); Arizona Beautiful (whistled); Rainbow Stallion of the Owyhees; The Valley of Caribou; Keep Idaho Green; Oh the Salmon River Whispers; Give Me An Idaho
8
T-017
Writer/Poet: various artists
Radio Program
1951
8
T-018
Wed.-Feb. 7th 6:30-6:45 p.m.; Wed.-Feb. 14th 6:30-6:45 p.m.
Radio Programs for KDSH including- I Hear the Patter of Rain; Green Bell of Ireland; Lost Trail; Please Keep Idaho Green; Singing Hearts
1952
8
T-019
October
Radio Programs
8
T-020
Wed.-Dec. 6th 6:30-6:45 p.m.; Wed.-Dec. 20th 6:30-6:45 p.m.; Wed.-Dec. 27th 6:30-6:45 p.m.
Performer/Composer: Ione Love Thielke
Poetry Day Program
1951
8
T-021
October
Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Poetry Day Program
1951
8
T-022
October
Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
unidentified
8
T-023
Damaged Discs
All damaged copies have no audio except for R-232 and R-238. Most deteriorating copies are aluminum acetate records, which are very difficult to preserve. Copies except for R-232 and R-238 were unplayable at the time of the collection's digitization.
Above the Bright Blue; Columbia Gallopade - Drifting & Dreaming
1950
10
R-043
Down Where Cotton Blossom Grow; My Old New Hampshire Home; In the Evening By the Bright Lights; Medley of the Old South; Picture Tonight, etc.
Writer/Poet: Ione & Dick Thielke
Buttermilk Bess
10
R-044
Cotton Fields: Gypsy Warning; Sweet Long Ago (title as-written)
10
R-047
my J. B. Love
Down Where Cotton Blossom Grow; My Old New Hampshire Home; In the Eve. By the Br't. Lights; On the Banks of the Wabash; Sing Me a Song of the South
10
R-050
Duet
Hope Ever Blooms Again; Down by the Old Mill Stream
1950 August 15
10
R-057
Good; Fair
Hope Ever Blooms Again; Sunset; Down by the Old Mill Stream; Hope Ever Blooms Again
10
R-058
High voice - Best; Low Voice
Writer/Poet: James B. Love
Hells Canyon Songs; Somewhere in the Pacific
10
R-059
Good
In the Land of Big Potatoes; Idaho at the End of the Rainbow
1950 May 30
10
R-075
When the Roll is Called Upyonder
Performer/Composer: Ione Love Thielke
In the Land of Shining Mountains; Montana! Montana!
1950 May 30
10
R-086
Performer/Composer: Ione Love Thielke
Maple on the Hill; The Old Red Mill
1950 October 28
10
R-087
Above the Bright Blue; ? Gal Drifting and Dreaming
Performer/Composer: Duet, Ione Love Thielke and James B. Love | Writer/Poet: James B. Love
Mail Call To-day
10
R-088
Uke; Steel Guitar
Performer/Composer: Ione Love Thielke
Radio/Montana; Apt House Blues
10
R-094
Cascade - Hill, mistake, Bill Love in Eugene; Bess sent
Hope Ever Blooms Again; Sure, I Love You Dear
10
R-103
Inside is guitar solo, Not Good; Best
Performer/Composer: James B. Love
The Artists Den; "Hopeing"
1950 May 18
10
R-111
Will You Waltz; Huston Mustang; Mrs. Callerdu You Can't Print That
10
R-119
Play inside out; by Norman R. Joffray
Winds of Night; The Old Branding Iron
1949 March 01
10
R-121
The musical poem recorde…; The Land That God Forgot
Performer/Composer: Ione Love Thielke | Writer/Poet: Poem by E A Brubacher
40 Years Ago
10
R-123
No good
Ace in the Hole; Devels Dream
1949 July 07
10
R-127
Mandolin and Guitar
Performer/Composer: Dugan Rush and Carl Edwards
Ace in the Hole
1949 September
10
R-128
ace s; violins; ?
Performer/Composer: Carl Edwards and Dugan Rush
Just Like Old Times, I Dreamed of an Old Love Affair; The Freight Train Blues
1949 June 16
10
R-155
Performer/Composer: Sang by Dugan Rush
Lasca
1949 July 26
10
R-159
Lasca
1949 July 26
10
R-160
Remember Me; Maggie
10
R-176
harmonic
Performer/Composer: Dugan Rush
Talking Blues; A Petal From Beautiful Bouquet
1949 August 10
10
R-187
Performer/Composer: Music of the Hills and Salmon River Savage by Mary Edmundson; The Land that God Forgot by E.A. Brubacher
The Church Bells Toll
1949 April 20
10
R-188
Performer/Composer: Sang and Played by Buck Nation over R.D.S.H. Boise R(adio) Station | Writer/Poet: Ione Love Thielke
Waiting for a Train; Many Tears Ago
1949 August 10
10
R-193
Theme song, punch in cattle
Performer/Composer: Dugan Rush
unidentified
10
R-215
unidentified
10
R-216
unidentified
10
R-220
Carry Me Back to Tennessee, Sweet Bunch of Daisies