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New Zealand Broadcasting Service :The Auckland Festival 1956. Festival variety; a cavalcade of radio entertainers, presented by the New Zealand Broadcasting Service in association with the Auckland Festival Society. Town Hall, Saturday 9 June [1956. Programme]
- Date
- 1956
- By
- New Zealand Broadcasting Service
- Reference
- Eph-B-VARIETY-1956-01
- Description
Programme for a variety concert, featuring the following performers whose photographs appear inside: John McKenzie Quartet (Don Branch, John McKenzie, Ray Gunter, Bob Ewing), Radio Roadhouse Team (Barry Linehan, Noeline Pritchard, Mervyn Smith), Bill Wolfgramm's Hawaiians South Sea Island Magic, Pat McMinn with the Stardusters (Jack Langford, Laurie North, Bill Langford), Ian Watkins, Peter Gwynn, Keith Bracey, James Hoskins, Rex Sayers, Doreen Harvey, Rex Wilson, Doug Laurenson, Eddie Hegan, Beryl Dalley, Oswald Cheesman, The Keysters (Nancy Harrie and John Thomson).
The back cover shows an advertisement for Taniwha Blue washing powder.
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Photolithographs in booklet of 8 pages, 250 x 200 mm.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- [Theatre programmes for variety, comedy, and music-hall shows and performances toured throughout New Zealand. 1950-1959].
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Ephemera, Photolithographs, Fliers (Printed matter), Photolithographs in booklet of 8 pages, 250 x 200 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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UnknownAuckland's new song hit ... "Taniwha blues", recorded by Pat McMinn, "The Stardusters" ...
Date: 1956
From: [Theatre programmes for variety, comedy, and music-hall shows and performances toured throughout New Zealand. 1950-1959].
Reference: Eph-B-VARIETY-1956-01-back
Description: Shows photographs of the Crombie Murdoch Trio and Pat McMinn and the Stardusters, with a packet of Taniwha Blue laundry powder at lower right. The words of "The Taniwha Blue song" are at lower left: "Taniwha Blue, Taniwha Blue / It blues as it washes, blues as it washes, / It's a brand new powder blue right through / It blues your clothes as it washes too / A perfumed powder, amazing new / Taniwha Blue". Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on back page of booklet, 250 x 200 mm.