31 May 2017

Sound Archives: Rugby songs from the past

From Afternoons, 1:35 pm on 31 May 2017

The Lions rugby team arrive in the country today and their first game, against the New Zealand Barbarians, will be in Whangarei on Saturday. So in today's visit to the sound archives of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, Sarah Johnston is going to play us some rugby songs from days gone by.

Alexander Turnbull Library / E. Kelley. The All Black rugby team which toured the United Kingdom in 1905-1906 – and who popularised the rugby song “On the Ball”

Alexander Turnbull Library. Citizen’s All Black Tour Association poster 1959

Alexander Turnbull Library / Evening Post. The Howard Morrison Quartet – (Gerry Merito, front left)

'Big Bad Don' by Doug Catley

'What’s on at the Park?' by Mick Dawson and the Fernleafs HMV HR 209