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Thread #18782   Message #2446150
Posted By: Little Robyn
20-Sep-08 - 06:25 PM
Thread Name: Origin: The Bluenose
Subject: RE: Bluenose song
The song was recorded here in NZ by Canadian couple Gary and Everill Muir, who came here shortly after they were married in 1964.
They credit it to D Martins and the blurb on the sleeve says:
The Canadian ten-cent piece bears the likeness of this famous racing ship which swept all before it on the Atlantic Coast of North America until its untimely end on a Caribbean reef.
It's on a Kiwi record LC-24 but isn't dated - I would guess about 1965/66. I believe Gary was injured in a car crash around that time but he still managed to perform in a TV programme called 'Meeting here tonight' on NZBC TV in 1966.
Robyn