Fair Sect - High Flying Bird Promo Photo: AudioCulture
When it comes to gender equity and the history of New Zealand popular music, without question women musicians have been poorly served. Singers such as Dinah Lee, Alison Durbin and the Chicks are household names - this episode of Blue Smoke highlights others who are now rarely mentioned
More to explore:
- AudioCulture profile: Carol Davies
- AudioCulture profile: The Fair Sect
- RNZ Access All Areas: Here Come the Kiwi Girls
- RNZ Blue Smoke: Canaries and Crooners
Music Details
Artist: Esme Stephens
Track: Lullaby of Broadway
Composer: Harry Warren
Album: Esme Stephens and Friends
Label: Zodiac Archive Series vol. 5
Artist: Esme Stephens and Mavis Rivers
Track: Promises
Composer: Shand
Album: Esme Stephens and Friends
Label: Zodiac Archive Series vol. 5
Artist: Pat McMinn
Track: Hi Diddle Griddle jingle
Composer: unknown
Album: Kiwiana Goes Pop
Label: Universal
Artist: Carol Davies & the Halos
Track: Fallin’
Composer: Sedaka/Greenfield
Album: Early Rock & Roll from New Zealand vol 3 & 4
Label: Collector
Artist: Kim Krueger
Track: She’s Got You
Composer: Hank Cochran
45rpm single
Label: La Gloria GSP-053
Artist: Denise Williams and the Maurie Paige Quartet
Track: Yes Indeed
Composer: Sy Oliver
45rpm single
Label: Kiwi SA37
Artist: Lyn Barnett
Track: Ordinary Guy
Composer: Johnny Devlin/Nat Kipner
45rpm single
Label: Viking 110
Artist: Cathy Howe
Track: Teenage Rebel
Composer: Cathy Howe
Album: From the Stebbing-Viscount Music Vaults vol 1
Label: Stebbing-Zodiac
Artist: Rochelle Vinsen
Track: Let my love walk in
Composer: Dick Glasser
45rpm single
Label: HMV HR193
Artist: Dinah Lee
Track: Cling’s the Thing advert
Composer: unknown
Album: Here Come the Girls
Label: EMI
Artist: Gwynn Owen
Track: Hard Lovin Loser
Composer: Farina
Album: Here Come the Girls
Label: EMI
Artist: Fair Sect
Track: The Rattler
Composer: Bruce Woodley
Album: Here Come the Girls
Label: EMI
