The Recorded Sound Archives (RSA) is a unit of FAU Libraries Special Collections department. We are located in the Wimberly Library on FAU's Boca Raton campus.

Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.

Frontier Ballads And Cowboy Songs


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station
Collection(s)Vintage
Catalogue Number410-1A / 410-1B / 410-2A / 410-2B / 410-3A / 410-3B / 410-4A / 410-4B
Matrix Number 79-1
Record Label Asch Recording Studio
Record Format78 RPM - 10" Album
Shelf Number464
Number of Tracks8
Date RecordedN/A
Album Artists
Notes N/A

Recordings restricted by copyright will only play 45 seconds to give you a sense of what that recording originally sounded like. These recordings can be identified by the words (Research Station) in the music player.

If a song listed below has not been digitized yet, it will NOT show up within the player. If you need us to digitize this song/album, you can make a formal request here.
1 - Sweet Betsy from Pike (Leader Song)
Composer(s) : N/A
2 - Mustand Grey (Bullwhack)
Composer(s) : N/A
3 - Jesse James (Outlaw)
Composer(s) : N/A
4 - Sam Hall (Desperado)
Composer(s) : N/A
5 - I Was Born Ten Thousand Years Ago (Picnic Song)
Composer(s) : N/A
6 - Buffalo Skinner (Work Song)
Composer(s) : N/A
7 - Old Joe Clarke (Country Dance with Calls)
Composer(s) : N/A
8 - Arkansas Traveller (Country Dance with Calls)
Composer(s) : N/A