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]
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References
  1. Audio Culture, 7 May 2013 Ode - Simon Grigg
  2. SOUNZ Ode Records, Profile Archived 5 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  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 Archived 25 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  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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