Tuesday, 17 December 2024

From the Archives - Wattle Recordings - Part 2

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From  the Archives - Wattle Recordings - Part 1

Getting the Record Straight - The Bush Music Club Discography by Bob Bolton, 1983

AUSTRALIAN BUSH SONGS leaflet

1. Australian Bush Songs - cover

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2.  Australian Bush Songs - page 1
3.  Australian Bush Songs - page 2

4.  Australian Bush Songs - page 3
 lyrics - The Hut That's Upside down

5.  Australian Bush Songs - page 4 - 
lyrics - Australia's on the Wallaby 

6.   Australian Bush Songs - page 5
lyrics - Click go the Shears

7.  Australian Bush Songs - page 6
lyrics - The Black Velvet Band 
 - learnt from Alex Hood 

8.  Australian Bush Songs - page 8
lyrics - Drover's Dream 
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THE BUSHWHACKERS - AUSTRALIAN BUSH SONGS  - Record cover



9.  Australian Bush Songs - cover  - Wattle B1 33-1/3 rpm

10.  Australian Bush Songs - no. B1
Side 1 - The Hut That's Upside Down & Australia's on the Wallaby
Side 2 - Click go the Shears & Black Velvet Band & Drover's Dream 

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SINGING SAILORS leaflet - 1957
 

11. Singing Sailors - cover 

12. Singing Sailors - description of cover
Short Drag Shanties 

13.  title page - Singing Sailors by Ewan McColl,  A. L. Lloyd
and Harry Corbet, with Alf Edwards, concertina, & chorus.
 Record notes by Edgar Waters,  Record no. C3, 1957

14.  Singing Sailors -page 1 - Introduction 

15.  Singing Sailors - page 2
illustration- Halyard or long haul shanties 

16.  Singing Sailors - page 3

17.   Singing Sailors - page  4 -
illustration - Capstan Shanties

18.  Singing Sailors - page  5
illustration - Fo'c'sle songs or forebitters

19.   Singing Sailors - page 6
lyrics - Stormalong - The Gauger

20.   Singing Sailors - page 7
lyrics - Gauger (cont) + Van Dieman's Land 

21.   Singing Sailors - page 8
lyrics - Van Dieman's Land (cont) & Lord Franklin 

22.   Singing Sailors - page 9
lyrics - Lord Franklin (cont) & Paddy Doyle & The Black Ball Line 

23.   Singing Sailors - page 10
lyrics - The Greenland Whale Fishery

24.   Singing Sailors - page 11
lyrics - The Greenland Fishery (cont) & Haul on the Bowline
&  The Flying Cloud 

25.  Singing Sailors - page 12
Lyrics - The Flying Cloud (cont)


26.  Singing Sailors - page 13
Lyrics - Blood Red Roses 

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WALTZING MATILDA leaflet, B4 1958


27. Waltzing Matilda - cover

29. Waltzing Matilda leaflet - 
Lyrics - Wallaby Stew 

30. Waltzing Matilda leaflet
Lyrics - The Dying Stockman

31. Waltzing Matilda leaflet
lyrics - Waltzing Matilda 

32. Waltzing Matilda leaflet
lyrics - Another Fall of Rain 

32. Waltzing Matilda leaflet
lyrics - The Shearer's Dream 

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AUSTRALIAN TRADITIONAL SINGERS AND MUSICIANS
Record number C7
Recorded by John Meredith and other members
of the AUSTRALIAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY
Archive Series number one 

33. cover only 
34. THE BUSHWHACKERS - AUSTRALIAN BUSH SONGS
Wattle BI, 1957


35. Back of sleeve





36.  Letter re Wattle records 1984

37. Answer by Bob Bolton 

38.  Wattle - Drover's Dream 

39. 5 Wattle records - Drovers's Dream - A1, Travelling Down the Castlereagh - A2, 
Click Go the Shears- A5,  Nine Miles from Gundagai- A3,
The Hut That's Upside Down - A11

40 & 41 - 3 articles copied together at an unknown date - 
Left side - Australian offers more than Waltzing Matilda - Proposition for Radio -
RTN Radio & Television News, February 28,1958
Right side - top - Recordings by Peter Sainthill,  The A.B.C. Weekly - April 9, 1958
bottom - Local Ballads on New Label - Record with Deejay. 
Listener In-TV,  February 22-28, 1958

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42 & 43. SONGS OF AUSTRALIA,  Wattle C9, June 1959
 Queensland Centenary 1859-1959
THE BANDICOOTS and The MORTON BAY BUSHWHACKERS
Folk Songs from Queensland 

43. Back of sleeve 

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Sunday, 15 December 2024

From the Archives - Wattle Recordings - Part 1

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From the Archives - Wattle Recordings - Part 2

Getting the Record Straight - The Bush Music Club Discography by Bob Bolton, 1983

National Library of Australia - WATTLE Collection -[sound recording] - original folk recordings  Wattle Recordings (commercial collection) of Australian folk, bush, indigenious songs and music, between the 1950's and 1964. In some cases the performer and/or the composition are unidentified.

Wattle Recordings archives; located at; National Library of Australia Manuscript collection MS 7342.

 List of Wattle recordings 

1.  List of Wattle recordings 

2.  List of Wattle recordings 

3.   List of Wattle recordings 

4.  List of Wattle recordings 

5.  List of Wattle recordings 

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Song sheets

6.  Bullockies' Ball - A1
7.  Drover's Dream - A1

8. Australia's On The Wallaby - A2

9.  Travelling down the Castlereagh  - A2

10.  The Old Bullock Dray - A3

11. Nine Miles from Gundagai - A3

12.  Click Go The Shears - A5

13. Botany Bay - A5

14.  Kelly from Killanne -  A6

15.  The Tricolour Ribbon - A6

16.  The Black Velvet Band - B2 - scene is Belfast

17.  Jim Jones at Botany Bay -  A9

18. The Black Velvet Band -  Alex Hood version - A11

19.  The Hut That's Upside Down  - A11

20.  Eubalomh Ball - B2

21.  The Lime Juice Tub - B2



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New releases /Release Sheets

22.     New release 10-Australian Traditional Singers
(after 8/12/57?)






24.  Release sheet 9 - Shanties & Fo'c'sle Songs  (plus) Singing Sailors

  
 25.  Release sheet 9 - Shanties & Fo'c'sle Songs  (plus) Singing Sailors


26.  Release sheet no. 1-1/7/56 - front

27. Release sheet no. 1-1/7/56 - back

28.  Release sheet no. 11 - front

29. Release Sheet no. 11 - back 












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