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Pōkarekare Ana" is a traditional New Zealand love song, probably communally composed about the time World War I began in 1914. The song is written in Māori and has been translated into English. It enjoys widespread popularity in New Zealand as well as some popularity in other countries.
The name is the subject of a 1960 song by the New Zealand balladeer Peter Cape. [11] It appears in the 1976 (re-released in 1979) single "The Lone Ranger" by British band Quantum Jump, which featured in the title sequence of the second series of The Kenny Everett Video Show. [citation needed]
Callaeidae (sometimes Callaeatidae) is a family of passerine birds endemic to New Zealand.It contains three genera, with five species in the family. One species, the huia, became extinct early in the 20th century, while the South Island kōkako is critically endangered and may be extinct.
The APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time is a selection of New Zealand songs as voted in 2001 by members of the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). The top 30 of this selection was used to create the Nature's Best CD and the rest of the list for follow-up compilations.
"Sailing Away" is a 1986 single by a supergroup of New Zealand singers and personalities, to promote New Zealand yacht KZ 7 in the 1987 America's Cup.It spent nine weeks at #1 in the single chart, the longest run of a New Zealand single until 2009.
The album was a commercial success, debuting at number 1 on the Official New Zealand Music Chart, [14] and became one of the most successful albums of 2019 in New Zealand. [15] Due to the success of the project, Waiata / Anthems became an annual project, where original songs and songs re-recorded in te reo Māori would be released, coinciding ...
They belong to a family containing five species of New Zealand wattlebirds, [3] the other three being two species of tīeke (saddleback) and the extinct huia. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] Previously widespread, kōkako populations throughout New Zealand have been decimated by the predations of mammalian invasive species such as possums , stoats , cats and rats ...
New Zealand–based music teacher and folk music compiler Neil Colquhoun claimed to have collected the song around 1966 [13] from one F. R. Woods. Woods, who was in his 80s at the time, had allegedly heard the song, as well as the song "John Smith A.B.", from his uncle.