Ode Records (New Zealand) Explained
Ode Records is a New Zealand record label. Artists recordings released through the label include Herb McQuay, Deane Waretini. The first release on the label was a single in 1968, "Sally I Do" by Abdullahs' Regime. The label also became an important outlet for ethnic and world music, especially music from Melanesian and Polynesian sources.
Background
The label was started in 1968 by Terence O’Neill-Joyce.[1] The genres the label has released include pop, blues, country, Jazz, new age, Maori, Pacific and world music.[2] Around 2005, the label was purchased by Roger Marbeck of the Marbecks Record stores chain.[3] Along with the Kiwi Pacific International Ltd, and Kiwi Records labels, Ode had a speciality in Polynesian music.[4] [5]
General releases (selective)
Singles
- Abdullahs' Regime – "Sally I Do" / "Silver Ship" (Dedicated To Those Services Active In Vietnam) - Ode Records ODE.1 - (1968)[6]
- Andrew - "Hand Bags And Glad Rags" / "Jordan Marsh (My Best Friend)" - ODE 3 - (1968)
- The Dizzy Limit - "Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight" - ODE 5 - (1969)
- The Dizzy Limit - "Wrote A Song For Everyone" / "Good Golly Miss Molly" - ODE-7 - (1969)[7]
- Nash Chase - "Sound Of Love" / "My Special Prayer" - ODE-8 - (1970)[8]
- Nash Chase - "What Greater Love" / "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" ODE-11 - (1970)
- Nash Chase - "I Will Bring You Flowers In The Morning" / "Words" - ODE-15[9]
- Anderson & Wise - "Anderson and Wise" / "Yo Yo Mac" - ODE-50 - (1972)[10] [11]
- Herb McQuay – "Oh How Happy" / "Mrs Jones" - Ode Records ODE 711 - (1980)[12]
Albums
World and ethnic music (selective)
Albums
- Patea Methodist Club - Toia - Ode Records SODE017 - 1973 (LP)[20]
- South Taranaki Methodist Maori Cultural Group -Music of the Maori - Ode Records SODE035 - 1976 (LP)
- The First Centenary of the Methodist Church in Fiji - Ode Records SODE081 - 1976 (LP)[21] [22]
- Tumuenua Dance Group - Cook Island Drums, Chants and Songs - Ode VOY 1335 - (1991) (CD)[23]
- Songs from the Second Float: Music from the Island of Takū - Recorded, compiled, and annotated by Richard Moyle. Ode Music MANU 2042 - (2005) (CD)[24] [25]
External links
Notes and References
- Audio Culture, 7 May 2013 Ode - Simon Grigg
- SOUNZ Ode Records, Profile
- New Zealand Listener, 10 December 2013 Roger Marbeck: shouting out to the pessimists by Ian Dando
- National Library of New Zealand The history of recording in New Zealand, 8. Independent Recording Labels
- Audio Culture, 7 May 2013 Ode - Simon Grigg
- Discogs Abdullahs' Regime – Sally I Do
- 45cat Õde Recording Co. - Label Discography
- 45car Nash Chase - Discography
- Discogs Nash Chase Discography
- National Library of New Zealand Anderson & Wise (sound recording) ; Yo Yo Mac / Taptiklis & Kaye ; (performed by) Anderson & Wise.
- InMyCollection 7" - Anderson & Wise - Anderson & Wise
- Discogs Herb McQuay – Oh How Happy
- National Library of New Zealand Herb McQuay
- Discogs Herb McQuay – You Are The One
- Discogs Shane* – Portrait 68
- Discogs Taj Mahal – Taj
- Discogs Will Crummer – Shoebox Love Songs
- New Zealand Charts online Deane Waretini - Now Is The Hour (Album)
- Music.net.nz Now Is The Hour - Deane Waretini - Top 40 Albums
- News: Toia . Te Ao Hou . 60-61 . Papers Past . July 1973 . 12 November 2021.
- The New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua Me Ngā Taonga Kōrero LP - The First Centenary of the Methodist Church in Fiji
- WorldCat The first centenary of the Methodist Church in Fiji
- South Pacific Handbook, By David Stanley Resources 877
- The University of Queensland Sound Reviews, 97, Songs from the Second Float: Music from the Island of Takū. 2005
- Songs from the Second Float: A Musical Ethnography of Takåu Atoll, Papua New Guinea, Richard Moyle xxiv Preface, Companion CD
