Folklore collected by USU folklore students on
cassette tape, microcassette, photographic slides, and VCR tape. Most were donated with
genre collections (FOLK COLL 8a); however, since media submissions are connected to more
than one genre items, they are housed separately from the transcript.
Repository:
Utah State University. Merrill-Cazier Library.
Special Collections and Archives Fife Folklore Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University 3000 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-3000 Phone: 435 797-2663 Fax: 435 797-2880 Email: scweb@usu.edu
Languages:
Collection materials are in English.
Sponsor:
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant,
2007-2008
Content Description
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.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access : Restrictions
Open to public research. To access the collection a patron must have the following
information: collection number, series number, sub-series number, if applicable, box
number and folder number (or image number).
Restrictions on Use : Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of
the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her
transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents
from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Patrons must sign and comply with the USU Special Collections and Archives Use Agreement
and Reproduction Order form as well as any restrictions placed by the collector or
informant(s).
Permission to publish material from the
Fife Folklore Archives student media collection must be
obtained from the Curator of the Fife
Folklore Archives and/or the Special Collections Department Head.
Preferred Citation :
USU Fife Folklore Archives student media collection, 1975-2005. (FOLK COLL 8b: box, item). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
The collection is organized by date (when known) and collector name.
Acquisition Information :
Submitted to the Folklore Archives by USU Folklore students
Processing Note :
Originally processed by Tricia Taylor and Randy Williams; updated by Nicole Cornwall, Fall 2011. Finding aid created by Randy
Williams, May 2006; updated by Randy Williams, March 2012.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Box
1
ITEM 1: COLLECTOR: Karen Stewart
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANT: Enid Waldron (born 1927, Cleveland,
OH): Tom Thumb Wedding.
1975.
1
ITEM 2: COLLECTOR: Unknown
(60 minute cassette tape)
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.
undated, approximately 1980.
1
ITEM 3: COLLECTOR: David Eskelson
(90 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANTS: Charmaine Halversen; Lucille and Lester
Knighton.
INFORMATION: Hy's Tack Room: Wild Game Feast, 4 November 1989, (with two-page
handwritten paper).
Fall 1989.
1
ITEM 8: COLLECTOR: Gary Taylor
(30 minute cassette tape)
INFORMATION: "Willie the Woodcutter," Folktale.
undated, approximately 1990.
1
ITEM 9: COLLECTOR: Pete Brooks, English/History 423
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMATION: J.C.H.'s Skinwalker Story.
undated, approximately 1990,
1
ITEM 10: COLLECTOR: Unknown
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANTS: Brenda McBeth: "Peter," Ukranian
folksong (sung and interpreted); Nancy Stephensen,
Lewiston UT: "The Bed Bug," (camp song).
undated, approximately 1990.
1
ITEM 11: COLLECTOR: Kate Graves
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANTS: Clark Graves, Catherine Graves, [?] Graves,
Jessie Bell, Art Gardner: Oral Narratives.
undated, approximately 1990.
1
ITEM 12: COLLECTOR: Unknown
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANT: Morgan Decker: "Who Needs a
Chairlift?"
undated, approximately 1990.
1
ITEM 13: COLLECTOR: LaDonna Christensen
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANT: Maureen Spencer.
6 July 1990.
1
ITEM 14: COLLECTOR: Amy S. Ellsworth
(VCR tape)
INFORMANT: Esther Smack Bradley: Folk Artist:
Tatting and Crocheting.
20 February 1993.
1
ITEM 15: COLLECTOR: Jeremy Wooden
(60 minute microcassette tape, transferred to 90 cassette tape, side A used
only and found on CD: FOLK COLL 8b, Box 3, item 16))
INFORMATION: Rap Shows and the Magic Twelve
Fall 1999.
2
ITEM 1: COLLECTOR: Unknown
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANT: Todd Haueter: Missionary Stories.
undated, approximately 2000.
2
ITEM 2: COLLECTOR: Unknown
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANT: Megan Fish: Missionary Stories.
undated, approximately 2000.
2
ITEM 3: COLLECTOR: Unknown
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANT: Mike Everton: Missionary Stories.
undated, approximately 2000.
2
ITEM 4: COLLECTOR: Unknown
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANT: Chantal Broways: Missionary
Stories.
undated, approximately 2000.
2
ITEM 5: COLLECTOR: Unknown
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANT: Billy Allen: Missionary Stories.
undated, approximately 2000.
2
ITEM 6: COLLECTOR: Margaret Garr Jaggi
(90 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANT: Opal Naylor.
25 March 2000.
2
ITEM 7: COLLECTOR: Barry Livingston, English 3700 (Thomas)
(90 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANTS: (Nicknames) 1. Angie Henderson: Pug;
2. Melanie: Chuck; 3. JaniMarie Lester: "J"; 4. Elizabeth
Lester: Ibis; 5. Rob: The Lung; 6. Sara McNamee: Doodle; 7. Dustin Crawford: Mex; 8. Emily Mills:
Pooh; 9. Jim Martucci: Dirty; 10. Jim Martucci: Bombaliini; 11. Steve Marty: Steve-O; 12. Barry Livingston: Seagull.
Fall 2000.
2
ITEM 8: COLLECTOR: Aaron Law, English 3700 (Thomas)
(90 minute cassette tape)
INFORMATION: Animal sounds and Polish folk songs.
Fall 2000.
2
ITEM 9: COLLECTOR: Elizabeth Ann Lester, English 3700
(Thomas)
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANTS: (Local Legends): Betty, Josh and Rusty
Marcus: Hippie, Northern Lights, Fairy Road, Space Ship, Lights Follow,
Dresser, Swing, Bone, Ghost Dog, Big George, Corinne Bridge, Honeyville Pond,
Picking Gravestone, Central, Wi[t]ch, The Growl, Canyon, Haunted House,
Tabernacle, Flood.
Fall 2000.
2
ITEM 10: COLLECTOR: Vicky Campbell, English 3700 (Thomas)
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANTS: (USU Student Folklore): Vicky Campbell and
Megan Morris: Roommate Song, 27 November 2000; Doug Smith: Taggart
Student Center Ghost, 29 November 2000; Leah L.
Culler: Kidnapper, 29 November 2000.
Fall 2000.
2
ITEM 11: COLLECTOR: Katie Acherman, English 3700 (Thomas)
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANTS: Sage Davis, Brian Bahr, Vanessa
Brenchley, Theatrical Traditions and Folklore, 17 November 2000.
Fall 2000.
2
ITEM 12: COLLECTOR: Mandy McKenna, English 3700 (Thomas)
(90 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANTS: Sharina Cheney, Kasey Child, Emily Dent,
Melanie Mason, Stephanie Morgan, Rick West, Barry Beutler, Jake Carter, Mike
Christensen: Utah State University Student Pranks, November 2000.
Fall 2000.
2
ITEM 13: COLLECTOR: Charity Lund, English 3700 (Thomas)
(90 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANTS: Gavin Cox: Playing Jailbreak; Donna Beach: I'm OK; Mindy
Techmeyer: I Got My Pink Slip; Donna
Beach: Pink Slips?; Gavin Cox: Pink Slip
Bitterness, Jailbreak & Bases; Mindy
Techmeyrer: Criss-Cross; Donna Beach:
Kissing Tag, Swish-Plop; Steven Lund: Fun Things
to do in Milford County.
Fall 2000.
2
ITEM 14: COLLECTOR: Kellianne Jensen, English 3700 (Thomas)
(110 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANTS: (Potty-Training Customs): 1. Anonymous
#1, 4 November 2000; 2. Clara Jensen, 14
November 2000; 3. Sandra J. Buck, 23 November
2000; 4. Karen D. Huckaby, 23 November 2000; 5.
Anonymous #2, 24 November 2000.
Fall 2000.
2
ITEM 15: COLLECTOR: Kirsten Broschinsky, English 3700
(Thomas)
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANT: (Wal-Mart Culture) Kirsten Broschinsky and
Adam Frederick: Adam's Revenge; Denet
Yazzi: Denet's Interview; Jason
Griffiths: Jason's Interview; Adam
Frederick: Adam's Elaborations; Jeneca
Coombs: Jeneca's Interview.
Fall 2000.
2
ITEM 16: COLLECTOR: Kandice Knight, English 3700 (Thomas)
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANTS: Norma and Thomas Brenchley: The Boys
Without Clothes, The Drunken Mexican and Indians, The Weapon of Prayer, Charles
Dickens and The Saints in England, Grandpa's Remembrance of the Depression, Jack
Dempsey and My Great-Great Grandpa Brenchley, Origins of Power in Wellsville,
Utah.
Fall 2000.
2
ITEM 17: COLLECTOR: Kandice Knight, English 3700 (Thomas)
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANTS: Bill and Shirlene Udink: Sarah
Richins' Journey to America, The Witch Rocks, [digital image of painting of Witch Rocks by George
Beard, 1911, oil on canvas], An Encounter with One of the Three Nephites, Kidnap
case of 1927; Norma and Thomas Brenchley: Aunt
Harriet and the Indians.
Fall 2000.
2
ITEM 18: COLLECTOR: Michelle Jensen, English 3700 (Thomas)
(60 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANTS: Julie Strate: A Marriage Proposal
Based on a Lie, Awkward First Date; Judy Jensen:
Yearning for a Wedding Proposal, Rude Awakening; Scott
Jensen: A Snowman for a Snowball, Wedding Proposal in a Stone Quarry;
Jason Strate: Pay Back with Mice; Michelle Jensen: Painful Hide-and-Go-Seek; Julie Strate: Humorous First Kiss; Shari Winters: The Dreaded Wedding Proposal; Scott Jensen: First Kiss in a Movie Theater; Clint Winters: Wedding Proposal a with a Joke; Kevin Watson: First Date on a Hill; Kevin Watson: Womanly Kiss, Marriage by the Temple.
Fall 2000.
2
ITEM 19: COLLECTOR: Wes Garland, English 3700 (Thomas)
(90 minute cassette tape)
INFORMATION: Pranks.
Fall 2000.
3
ITEM 1: COLLECTOR: Aimee Hall, History 2720 (Toelken)
(VCR tape)
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?
Spring 2001.
3
ITEM 2: COLLECTOR: Jeremy Beal, English 3700 (Thomas)
(60 minute microcassette tape, transferred to 90 cassette tape, side A used
only and found on CD: FOLK COLL 8b, Box 3, item 16)
INFORMATION: Conversation.
Fall 2002.
3
ITEM 3: COLLECTOR: Jeremy Beal, English 3700 (Thomas)
ITEM 14: COLLECTOR: Stephanie Wilson, English 3700 (Thomas)
(60 minute microcassette tape, transferred to 60 minute cassette tape, side A used
only and found on CD: FOLK COLL 8b, Box 3, item 16)
INFORMANTS: Jacob Beck, Jonathon M. Gooch, Jerrica Hall,
Sunnie Hansen, Boonie Luce, Mike Molyneux, Clark Sessions, Natalie Shaw, Todd
Walden, Kurt Wilson, Marcia Wilson: Sports Superstitions.
Fall 2005.
3
ITEM 15: COLLECTOR: Ralph D. Merrill, English 3700 (Thomas)
(90 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANTS: Diane L. Merrill and Zelda Gertrude Bartlett
Packer, Food Dishes for Special Occasions, November 2005.
Fall 2005.
3
ITEM 16: COLLECTOR: Megan Griffiths, English 3700 (Thomas)
(90 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANTS: Kelly Griffiths, Randy Griffiths, David
Tovey, Paige Tovey.
Fall 2005.
3
ITEM 17: CD of items on microcassettes
(see items: FOLK COLL 8b, Box 1, item 15; Box 3, items: 2, 7, 10, 14)
4
ITEM 1: COLLECTOR: Unknown (Wilson)
(23 Color Slides)
INFORMATION: Swiss Easter Egg Dying (Easter in Southern Utah).
Undated, approximately late 1970s.
4
ITEM 2: COLLECTOR: Gabrielle Hamilton. (Toelken)
(76 Color Slides)
INFORMATION: Halloween Yard Art and Costumes: Wyoming and Logan, North Logan and
Smithfield, UT.
Undated, approximately 1995.
5
ITEM 1: Linda J. Fretwell
(90 minute cassette tape)
INFORMANT: Elaine F. Lewis: telling story of parents' first date, engagement,
and wedding reception.(See items: FOLK COLL 8a, Group 7, Box 14, fld. 12, item 3.9.1.2,
fld. 13, item 3.9.3.3, and fld. 20, item 3.10.0.3).
Unknown.
5
ITEM 2: Linda J. Fretwell
(CD)
INFORMANT: John Fretwell: telling story of how he met Helen Keller during World War II.
(See item: FOLK COLL 8a, Group 7, Box 13, fld. 1, item 3.1.3.5).
1980.
5
ITEM 3: Collector: Unknown
(2 CDs)
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
