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.
1. Cover of Part 1
2. Cover of part 1, page 2
3. Cover of Part 2
4. Cover of part 2, page 2
5. Page 1 Introduction
6. Page 2 Introduction
7. Page 3 Introduction
8. Page 4 Introduction.
9. Page 5 Index
10. Page 6 Index.
11. Page 7
12. Page 8
13. Page 69
14. Page 70
15. Page 71
16. Page 72
17. Page 73
18. page 74
19. page 75
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