Early Flute Recording Discography
This page provides a discography of early recordings of Native American flutes.
It is the work of
Steve Bliven.
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Folk Music in America, V. II: Songs of Love, Courtship and Marriage
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| Date issued: |
Unknown | | Recording company: |
Library of Congress Music Division Recording | | Recording ID #: |
LBC 2 | | Edited by: |
Richard K. Spottswood | | Performer(s): |
John Okimase | |
Two Menominee Flute Songs are found on Band 3. Recording date unknown.
Available on cassette through Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound
Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540-4690.
For more information see
www.loc.gov/folklife/folkcat.html#top. |
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Folk Music of the US from the Archive of Folk-song.
Plains: Comanche, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Caddo, Wichita, Pawnee
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| Date issued: |
Unknown | | Recording company: |
Library of Congress Music Division Recording | | Recording ID #: |
AFS L39 | | Recorded by: |
Willard Rhodes | | Performer(s): |
Belo Kozad (Kiowa) | |
Band 10 is listed as "Kiowa Story of the Flute" and
Band 11 is listed as "Kiowa Love Song".
Recorded between 1940 - 1952.
Available on cassette through Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound
Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540-4690.
For more information see
www.loc.gov/folklife/folkcat.html#top. |
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Folk Music of the US from the Archive of Folk-song: Sioux
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| Date issued: |
Unknown | | Recording company: |
Library of Congress Music Division Recording | | Recording ID #: |
AFS L40 | | Recorded by: |
Willard Rhodes | | Performer(s): |
John Coloff | |
Band 7 is listed as "Love Songs." Recorded between 1940 - 52.
Available on cassette through Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound
Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540-4690.
For more information see
www.loc.gov/folklife/folkcat.html#top. |
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Music of the Sioux and the Navajo
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| Date issued: |
1949 | | Recording company: |
Folkways Smithsonian | | Recording ID #: |
F-4401 | | Recorded by: |
Willard Rhodes | | Performer(s): |
John Coloff | |
A Sioux love song is played on Side 1, Band 4(a).
Rhodes suggests the song reflects "the influence of white culture,
[and] leads one to date the song in the last half of the nineteenth century".
Originally issued as Folkways Ethnic FE-4401.
Reissued on CD or Cassette through The Smithsonian at
www.folkways.si.edu. |
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Music of the World's Peoples, Volume 2
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| Date issued: |
1952 | | Recording company: |
Folkways Smithsonian | | Recording ID #: |
F-04505 | | Recorded by: |
Unknown (Willard Rhodes?) | | Performer(s): |
John Coloff | |
Song listed as "Courting Melody Flute Solo"
Originally issued as Folkways Ethnic P-505.
Reissued on CD or Cassette through The Smithsonian at
www.folkways.si.edu. |
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Songs and Dances of the Flathead Indians
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| Date issued: |
1953 | | Recording company: |
Folkways Smithsonian | | Recording ID #: |
F-4445 | | Recorded by: |
Alan P. and Barbara W. Merriam | | Performer(s): |
Jerome Vanderburg | |
Side 1, Band 5 includes two love songs played on a flute made
"from a short piece of nickel tubing".
Recorded in the summer of 1950 "in the Arlee area of the
Flathead Indian Reservation".
Related article in The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 37, n. 3, July 1951,
entitled "Flathead Indian Instruments and Their Music."
Originally issued as Folkways Ethnic FE-4445.
Reissued on CD or Cassette through The Smithsonian at
www.folkways.si.edu. |
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Songs and Dances of the Great Lakes Indians
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| Date issued: |
1956 | | Recording company: |
Folkways Smithsonian | | Recording ID #: |
F-4003 | | Recorded by: |
Gertrude Prokosch Kurath | | Performer(s): |
Wilson Roberts (Meskwaki) | |
Side 1, Band 1(f) consists of a "Love Song for Flute (Don't Leave Me)".
It is described as follows,
"This wandering melody in four-tone scale typifies the Indian courtship
music. It is called 'Don't Leave Me".
It was played on a "typical Woodland lover's flute,
of two half cylinders of wood glued together,
with six holes spaced three and three,..".
Recorded in 1952.
Wilson Roberts (Meswaki of Tama, Iowa) was "one of the few flute players".
He died in 1952.
Originally issued as Folkways Ethnic FE-4003.
Reissued on CD or Cassette through The Smithsonian at
www.folkways.si.edu. |
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War Whoops and Medicine Songs
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| Date issued: |
1964 | | Recording company: |
Folkways/Smithsonian | | Recording ID #: |
F-4381 | | Recorded by: |
Charles Hoffman | | Performer(s): |
Roi Clearwater (Chippewa), Blow Snake (Sam Carly) | |
Winnebago songs by Blow Snake (Sam Carly) on Side 1, Bands 10 - 12.
Two love songs and "Song of the Unfaithful Woman".
Chippewa love songs and flute melodies by Roi Clearwater on Side 2,
Bands 12 - 15.
Dates songs recorded not provided.
Companion book with same title published in 1952 by The Boston Music Company.
Originally issued as Folkways Ethnic FE-4381.
Reissued on CD or Cassette through The Smithsonian at
www.folkways.si.edu. |
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Cry From the Earth: Music of the North American Indians
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| Date issued: |
1979 | | Recording company: |
Folkways Smithsonian | | Recording ID #: |
37777 | | Recorded by: |
Various | | Edited by: |
John Bierhorst | | Performer(s): |
Various |
Flute music includes:
- "Flute Call" played by John Coloff;
described as a demonstration of what the instrument could do.
Collected by Willard Rhodes about 1941.
(Also on "Music of the Sioux and Navajo" listed above)
- "Lonesome Flute" played by Jim Tiger;
Collected by Frank G, Speck about 1900.
From a wax cylinder (transferred to tape) at the Archives of Traditional Music,
Indiana University. PRE-54-(141)-F, ATL-1946.2
Several other vocal songs are presented in which the singers refer to flutes
or imitate flute music.
Issued on CD or Cassette through The Smithsonian at
www.folkways.si.edu. |
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Comanche Flute Music played by Doc Tate Nevaguaya
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| Date issued: |
1979 | | Recording company: |
Folkways/Smithsonian | | Recording ID #: |
F-4328 | | Recorded by: |
Verna Gillis | | Performer(s): |
Doc Tate Nevaguaya |
Includes the following songs:
- I Saw an Eagle Fly
- Edmund Wayne Song
- When the Moon is Full
- Riding Song
- Flute Wind Song
- Omaha Wind Song
- Foolsbull's Song
- Comanche Riding Song
- 49 song
- Jesus I Always Want to be Near to You
- Comanche Moon
- Round Dance Song
Recorded in July 1978.
Originally issued as Folkways Ethnic FE-4328.
Reissued on CD or Cassette through The Smithsonian at
www.folkways.si.edu. |
  
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