Australia's Wattle Records 1955-1963 also released records by Ewen McColl & also A.L. Lloyd


A Series 78s
A1 The Bushwhackers The Drover's Dream / The Bullockies' Ball
A2 The Bushwhackers Travelling Down the Castlereagh / Australia's on the Wallaby
A3 The Bushwhackers Old Bullock Dray / Nine Miles from Gundagai
A4 The Bushwhackers Give a Fair Go / Rabbiter (not issued?)
A5 The Bushwhackers Botany Bay / Click Go the Shears
A6 Patrick Galvin Kelly the Boy from Killane / The Tricolour Ribbon
A7 Barbara Lisyak The Old Woman and the Piggy / Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
A8 Barbara Lisyak The Seven Joys of Mary / The Coventry Girl
A9 Ewan MacColl Jim Jones at Botany Bay / Black Velvet Band ######   
A10 A L Lloyd Euabalong Ball / Lime-Juice Tub
A11 The Bushwhackers Black Velvet Band / The Hut That's Upside-Down
A12 Ewan MacColl Poor Paddy Works on the Railway / The Factory Girl ##########
A13 Ewan MacColl The Coal Owner and the Pitman's Wife / Cosher Bailey's Engine         #############
A14 Beth Schurr Christ Was Born in Bethlehem / The Holly Bears a Berry
A15 Beth Schurr The Green Bushes / If I Were a Blackbird
A16 John Greenway The Cat Came Back / Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail
A17 The Rambleers Waltzing Matilda / The Shearer's Dream

B Series 7" 33rpm EPs
B1 The Bushwhackers Australian Bush Songs
B2 MacColl & Lloyd Convicts and Currency Lasses #############
B3 Bill Scott & Stan Arthur Billygoat Overland
B4 The Rambleers Waltzing Matilda
B5 Dougie Young The Land Where the Crow Flies Backwards

C Series 10" LPs
C1 John Greenway Workin' on a Buildin'
C2 John Greenway American Songs of Protest
C3 [Patrick Galvin Irish Songs of Resistance – not issued?]
C4 A L Lloyd Banks of the Condamine
C5 MacColl & Lloyd Singing Sailors      #############
C6 MacColl & Lloyd Shanties and Foc'sle Songs      #############   
C7 Australian Traditional Singers and Musicians (Archive Series No 1)
C8 The Rambleers The Old Bark Hut
C9 Bandicoots & Moreton Bay Bushwhackers Songs from Queensland

D Series 12" LPs
D1 A L Lloyd Across the Western Plains
D2 Music of New Guinea (Archive Series No 2)
D3 The Fossickers Australian Goldrush Songs
D4 The Art of the Didjeridu
D5 Arnhem Land Popular Classics

E Series 7" 45rpm singles
E1 Bushwhackers Drover's Dream/Bullockies Ball
E2 The Rambleers Michael Row the Boat Ashore/Children Go Where I Send Thee

F Series 12" LPs
F1 Traditional Singers and Musicians in Victoria

Wattle Films
Wattle Ballad Series No. 1 Old Black Billy The Rambleers 1961
Wattle Ballad Series No. 2 The Gold Diggers Ted Dunn, Arthur Greig and Jim Mills 1961
Wattle Ballad Series No. 3 Reedy River The Rambleers 1961
Wattle Ballad Series No. 4 The Old Bullock Dray The Bushwhackers 1961
Wattle Ballad Series No. 5 Click Go the Shears The Rambleers 1961

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Wattle Recordings was established in Sydney, New South Wales by Peter Hamilton in 1955. A former architect with an interest in film, Hamilton was attempting to source recorded Australian folk music and songs to include on film soundtracks. After finding that none of this music was commercially available he asked Edgar Waters to join him as record editor and established the company with the purpose of recording Australian traditional folk music for both film and sound. The first recordings published by Wattle included The Bushwhackers, Australia's first bush music band, and recordings of Australian folk music sung by British folklorists Ewan McColl and A. L. Lloyd. The Bushwhackers were particularly successful and many of their songs were played in rural pubs and radio stations throughout eastern Australia. Wattle continued to record numerous artists from the "folk song revival" of the 1950s. These included The Rambleers, the Morton Bay Bushwhackers, Bill Scott and Stan Arthur. In 1957 Wattle Recordings published original field recordings made by pioneer folklore collector John Meredith. Australian Traditional Musicians and Singers included many bush singers of renown including Duke Tritton and Sally Sloane. This release was followed in 1960 by a similar publication Australian Traditional Musicians and Singers in Victoria, which included field recordings of singers such as Simon McDonald and Tom Newbound. This recording was compiled by Pat and Norm O'Connor and Maryjean Officer, all members of the Folk Lore Society of Victoria. Wattle records also published a number of records featuring traditional indigenous music from Australia and Papua New Guinea that had been collected by various folklorists and anthropologists. The last record published by Wattle Recordings featured the songs of indigenous singer Dougie Young and was released in 1963. Wattle's early publications were recorded on the older 78 rpm format and the more modern 45 and 33 rpm formats. Many recordings were also released in extended or long play format. All of Wattle's publications included booklets with extensive notes on the music and often included the lyrics to the songs that were recorded. Two of Wattle's releases, The Rambleers and Australian and Traditional Musicians and Singers in Victoria were re-released by the National Library of Australia in 2003 and 2004.

Their archives are either in the National Library or National Film & Sound Archives,