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

Albums

World and ethnic music (selective)

Albums

External links

Notes and References

  1. Audio Culture, 7 May 2013 Ode - Simon Grigg
  2. SOUNZ Ode Records, Profile
  3. New Zealand Listener, 10 December 2013 Roger Marbeck: shouting out to the pessimists by Ian Dando
  4. National Library of New Zealand The history of recording in New Zealand, 8. Independent Recording Labels
  5. Audio Culture, 7 May 2013 Ode - Simon Grigg
  6. Discogs Abdullahs' Regime – Sally I Do
  7. 45cat Õde Recording Co. - Label Discography
  8. 45car Nash Chase - Discography
  9. Discogs Nash Chase Discography
  10. National Library of New Zealand Anderson & Wise (sound recording) ; Yo Yo Mac / Taptiklis & Kaye ; (performed by) Anderson & Wise.
  11. InMyCollection 7" - Anderson & Wise - Anderson & Wise
  12. Discogs Herb McQuay – Oh How Happy
  13. National Library of New Zealand Herb McQuay
  14. Discogs Herb McQuay – You Are The One
  15. Discogs Shane* – Portrait 68
  16. Discogs Taj Mahal – Taj
  17. Discogs Will Crummer – Shoebox Love Songs
  18. New Zealand Charts online Deane Waretini - Now Is The Hour (Album)
  19. Music.net.nz Now Is The Hour - Deane Waretini - Top 40 Albums
  20. News: Toia . Te Ao Hou . 60-61 . Papers Past . July 1973 . 12 November 2021.
  21. 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
  22. WorldCat The first centenary of the Methodist Church in Fiji
  23. South Pacific Handbook, By David Stanley Resources 877
  24. The University of Queensland Sound Reviews, 97, Songs from the Second Float: Music from the Island of Takū. 2005
  25. Songs from the Second Float: A Musical Ethnography of Takåu Atoll, Papua New Guinea, Richard Moyle xxiv Preface, Companion CD