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

• Herb McQuay - You Are The One - Ode - (1981)^[13][14]
• Shane - Portrait 68 - Ode Records SODE 243 - (1986)^[15]
• Taj Mahal - Taj - Ode Records SODE 256 - (1986)^[16]
• Will Crummer - Shoebox Love Songs - Ode CD MANU 5113 - (2011)^[17]
• Deane Waretini - Now is the Hour - Ode CD MANU 5145 - (2012)^[18][19]

World and ethnic music (selective)

Albums

• Patea Methodist Club - Toia - Ode Records SODE017 - 1973 (LP)^[20]
• South Taranaki Methodist Maori Cultural Group -Music of the Maori - Ode Records SODE035 - 1976 (LP)
• The First Centenary of the Methodist Church in Fiji - Ode Records SODE081 - 1976 (LP)^[21][22]
• Tumuenua Dance Group - Cook Island Drums, Chants and Songs - Ode VOY 1335 - (1991) (CD)^[23]
• Songs from the Second Float: Music from the Island of Takū - Recorded, compiled, and annotated by Richard Moyle. Ode Music MANU 2042 - (2005) (CD)^[24][25]