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In New Zealand in the 1930s, farmers reportedly had trouble with exploding trousers as a result of attempts to control ragwort, an agricultural weed. [1] Farmers had been spraying sodium chlorate, a government recommended weedkiller, onto the ragwort, and some of the spray had ended up on their clothes. Sodium chlorate is a strong oxidizing ...
The song was written to protest French nuclear weapons testing at Mururoa atoll in neaby French Polynesia, and was the lead single from the band's second album, Light of the Pacific. Despite receiving little radio airplay due to the innuendo in the song's title, [1] the song spent 15 weeks in the New Zealand Top 40, peaking at number 11. [2]
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.
It was a No. 21 hit for Nat King Cole in 1948. [2]The song received two significant "rock era" remakes: a ballad version by the Everly Brothers in 1961 which reached No. 20 on Billboard, [3] and an up-tempo version by Frank Ifield which reached No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart on 15 February 1964, [4] as well as in New Zealand. [5]
The resulting album was named Nature's Best after the title song, and was released in January 2002 on the Sony Music label. Sales were extraordinary - in the first four months after its release, over 100,000 copies were sold [ 4 ] (over quintuple platinum in the New Zealand market).
She recorded more than 30 sides for Tanza. "Hootchy Kootchy Henry" became a hit in Samoa. Her last release was in 1966, the album "Coconut Grove". Walker suffered from stage fright and was reluctant to perform before an audience, preferring studio recording. In 2012 she was awarded the Nostalgia Award from the Variety Artists Club of New ...
Official New Zealand Music Chart (Recorded Music New Zealand) 27 June 1975: Mark Williams "Yesterday Was Just the Beginning of My Life" 3 5 June 1977: Mark Williams "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" 4 9 April 1978: John Rowles "Tania" 4 2 December 1979: Jon Stevens "Jezebel" 6 3 February 1980: Jon Stevens "Montego Bay" 1 16 March 1980: Split Enz "I ...
Mohi promoted the single in the United Kingdom in 1999, [3] during which she shot a music video for the song in Epping Forest near London, redressed to look like New Zealand bush. [ 4 ] Mohi re-recorded the song in collaboration with the Auckland Chamber Orchestra in 2013, as a part of her album Raukatauri – Te Puhi o Te Tangi .