Ode Records (New Zealand)

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

  • The First Centenary of the Methodist Church in Fiji - Ode Records SODE081 - 1976 (LP)[20][21]
  • Tumuenua Dance Group - Cook Island Drums, Chants and Songs - Ode VOY 1335 - (1991) (CD)[22]
  • Songs from the Second Float: Music from the Island of Takū - Recorded, compiled, and annotated by Richard Moyle. Ode Music MANU 2042 - (2005) (CD)[23][24]

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. ↑ 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
  21. ↑ WorldCat The first centenary of the Methodist Church in Fiji
  22. ↑ South Pacific Handbook, By David Stanley Resources 877
  23. ↑ The University of Queensland Sound Reviews, 97, Songs from the Second Float: Music from the Island of Takū. 2005
  24. ↑ Songs from the Second Float: A Musical Ethnography of Takåu Atoll, Papua New Guinea, Richard Moyle xxiv Preface, Companion CD
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