Susan Colley interviewed by Alan Scott in Alan Scott folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 711742
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Colley, Susan, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access to be determined.
- Description:
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- 1965
- 1 sound tape reel (ca. 58 min.) ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Alan Scott folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Susan Colley sings and plays button accordion and talks about folk songs.
- Full contents:
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- Recitation: Lachlan tigers
- Conversation: discussion of Lachlan tigers
- Accordion: After the ball; Two little girls in blue; Gypsy's warning; There is a gate that stands ajar; Ring the bell watchman (this and next two with tin whistle accompaniment); Grand-fathers clock; Irish washerwoman; Teaching McFadden to waltz (with words sung by Jamie Carlin); No place like home; varsovienna; Keel row
- Conversation: dancing the Keel row
- Accordion: Beautiful Isle of somewhere (then sung & whistled by Clyde Colley); Sally Horner; Banks of Allan Water (fragment, then sung and words discussed); polka; Deck my brow with roses (I'll be all smiles tonight)
- Conversation: repeats words of previous tune; discussion of parodies, incl. Click go the shears; other songs, incl. Out In the twilight
- Singing (Percy Gresser): Put me among the girls (fragment)
- Conversation: general discussion of the Stockman's last bed; Susan repeats words of Dying stockman
- Recitation: Stockman's lone grave
- Singing: Dying stockman (Clyde Colley); Stockman's lone grave (Susan Colley)
- Conversation: origins of the Stockman's lone bed; the Broken down squatter; Percy Gresser speaks about the similarities between the Dying squatter a soldier of the legion lay dying in Algiers; reference to old singers and musicians, incl. Fred Langdon, Steve Collard, Dick Coles
- Singing: Picture a man with his face pushed in
- Conversation: the words of Father McCrea.
- Notes:
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- Recorded by Alan Scott, Jamie Carlin and John Robertson.
- Mr and Mrs Percy Gresser are also present at the recording.
- Recorded at Bathurst, N.S.W. in 1965.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
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This belongs to the Alan Scott folklore collection.
This collection contains 86 records. - Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2035 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1965
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