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Track: Flight 805
Artist: The Minors
45rpm single
Composer: R Brasell
Label: HMV HR217
Track: Cossack
Artist: Max Merritt
Album: Early Rock’n’Roll from New Zealand, vol 5 & 6
Composer: C. Bourner
Label: Collector CLCD7755/A/B
Track: If You Want My Lovin’
Artist: Max Merritt
Album: Early Rock’n’Roll from New Zealand, vol 5 & 6
Composer: Turner-Marascal
Label: Collector CLCD7755/A/B
Track: Rehearsal Rock
Artist: Keil Isles
Album: Early Rock’n’Roll from New Zealand, vol 1 & 2
Composer: Keil Isles
Label: Collector CLCD7753/A/B
Track: Little Papoose
Artist: Keil Isles
Album: Early Rock’n’Roll from New Zealand, vol 1 & 2
Composer: Barrios-Chord
Label: Collector CLCD7753/A/B
Track: Chock’s Away
Artist: the Kavaliers
Album: Early Rock’n’Roll from New Zealand, vol 7 & 8
Composer: unknown
Label: Collector CLCD7756/A/B
Track: Knockin’ On Wood
Artist: Johnny Stevenson and the Sapphires
Album: Album: Early Rock’n’Roll from New Zealand, vol 5 & 6
Composer: van Dijke
Label: Collector CLCD7755/A/B
Track: Poor Little Fool
Artist: Paul Walden,
45rpm single
Composer: Sharon Sheeley
Label: Columbia DNZ114
Track: Sea of Love
Artist: Ronnie Sundin
Album: Ronnie
Composer: John Phillip Baptiste
Label: Viking VP23
Track: I’m Sorry
Artist: Sandra Brown and the Initials
45rpm single
Composer: unknown
Label: La Gloria GSP 078
Track: Beatle Bridge
Artist: Tony and the Initials
45rpm single
Composer: Oliff-Eagleton
Label: Kiwi SA42
Track: Let My Love Walk In
Artist: Rochelle Vinsen with the Blockbusters
45rpm single
Composer: uncredited
Label: HMV HR193
Track: Clap Your Hands
Artist: Teddy Bennett
Album: Early Rock’n’Roll from New Zealand, vol 5 & 6
Composer: Frechette
Label: Collector CLCD7755/A/B
Track: Teenage Baby
Artist: Peter Lewis
Album: Early Rock’n’Roll from New Zealand, vol 3 & 4
Composer: Withers-Melton
Label: Collector CLCD7754/A/B
Track: Bumble Bee Boogie
Artist: Tommy Kahi Group
Album: Christchurch The Music
Composer: arr. Kahi
Label: EMI 311882
Track: Jezebel
Artist: Bill Morton with Al Paget
45rpm single
Composer: Wayne Shorklin
Label: Allied Int JAR451
Track: Starlight Starbright
Artist: Charlie Cough
Album: Early Rock’n’Roll from New Zealand, vol 7 & 8
Composer: Marosco
Label: Collector CLCD7756/A/B
Track: Rebel Rouser
Artist: Bob Paris
Album: Early Rock’n’Roll from New Zealand, vol 7 & 8
Composer: Eddy-Hazelwood
Label: Collector CLCD7756/A/B
Track: This Little Boy’s Gone Rockin’
Artist: Ricky May with Latin Quartet
45rpm single
Composer: Darin
Label: RCA 60404
Track: Crossfire
Artist: Jimmy Sloggett
Album: Early Rock’n’Roll from New Zealand, vol 7 & 8
Composer: Fowler-King
Label: Collector CLCD7756/A/B
Track: Please Mr Postman
Artist: Lyn Barnett with Garth Young Orchestra
Album: Lyn
Composer: Dobbins-Garrett-Holland-Bateman-Gorman
Label: Viking VP76
Track: I’ll Hide My Love
Artist: Q-Tees
45rpm single
Composer: Mary-Ellen Keegan
Label: Tanza ZF 331
Track: Come Go With Me
Artist: the Southerners
45rpm single
Composer: Quick
Label: HMV HR165
Track: Down By the Riverside
Artist: the Southerners
45rpm single
Composer: trad
Label: HMV HR165
Track: Otago
Artist: Bob Moles
EP: Down Otago Way
Composer: R Edwards
Label: HMV 7EGM 6069
Track: Rugby, Racing and Beer
Artist: Rod Derrett
EP: Rugby, Racing and Beer
Composer: Derrett
Label: HMV 7EGM6070
Track: Blowin’ in the Wind
Artist: Folkestone Three
45rpm single
Composer: Dylan
Label: Kiwi SA33
Track: Pillar of Society
Artist: the Convairs
Album: Kiwi Folk Scene 1965-1971
Composer: Fitzgerald-Quinn
Label: EMI 3308312
Track: The Kiwi
Artist: Val Murphy
Album: My Way of Singing
Composer: Val Murphy
Label: HMV MCLP 6203
Track: Kon Tiki
Artist: Tornados
45rpm single
Composer: Michael Carr
Label: HMV HR159

Blue Smoke is written, presented and produced by Chris Bourke, author of Blue Smoke: the Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music, 1918-1964 (AUP), which won the "Book of the Year" award at the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards.
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