The Songs They Sang and the Dance Tunes They Played at the Old Time Bush Dances Compiled by P. J. Gresser, 1962-1966. The original is a 75 page manuscript in Gresser papers in the State Library of NSW.
A pdf of the Gresser mss, created by Dave Johnson is available in Archives.
On two occasions in 1965 BMC members visited Mr Gresser & Mrs Colley.
The first visit was by Alan Scott & Barbara & George Gibbons, the second by Alan, Jamie Carlin & John Robertson as the first collecting visit had gone well.
Unfortunately Mrs Colley told her relatives about the proposed visit, and some of them gathered in her home, talking & interrupted the recording which was abandoned. See scan no. 14 (page 72 in the mss) for details of the afternoon
In 1970 BMC published A Collector's Songbook by Alan Scott, which included a number of Mrs Colley's songs. Extracts from the book, including notes on each song are below.
A selection of scans describing this manuscript.
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1. Cover of Part 1
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2. Cover of part 1, page 2
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3. Cover of Part 2
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4. Cover of part 2, page 2
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5. Page 1 Introduction
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6. Page 2 Introduction
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7. Page 3 Introduction
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8. Page 4 Introduction.
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9. Page 5 Index
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10. Page 6 Index.
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11. Page 7
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12. Page 8
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13. Page 69
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14. Page 70
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15. Page 71
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16. Page 72
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17. Page 73
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18. page 74
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19. page 75
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