New Zealand Songs (Music Guide) - Actor (DD Smash Song), All I Ask, Anchor Me (Greenpeace Song), Apra Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time, Bathe in T (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 35. Chapters: Actor (DD Smash song), All I Ask, Anchor Me (Greenpeace song), APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time, Bathe In the River, Beside You (Dave Dobbyn song), Be Mine Tonight (song), Blacken My Thumb, Bliss (Th' Dudes song), Calling On, Celia (song), Chains (DLT song), Computer Games (song), Counting the Beat, Crawl (Atlas song), Dance Stamina, Devil You Know, Don't Let Me Fall Alone, Fools Love, French Grave, Girl In Stilettos, Gluey, Gluey and The Ear Friend, God Defend New Zealand, High School Hoodlums, Hine E Hine, Hook Up, Invercargill March, I Do Believe, Kei A Wai Ra Te Kupu, Language (Dave Dobbyn song), Long White Cross, Love You Like I Should, Loyal (song), Magic (What She Do), Magic 8, Mareko (Here to Stay), Now Is the Hour, One Day (Opshop song), Outlook For Thursday, Pins and Needles (song), Poi E, Pokarekare Ana, Puha and Pakeha, Repetition (DD Smash song), Rewind (Jamie McDell song), Sailing Away (All of Us song), Sake Bomb (song), Sensitive to a Smile, She Loves Me Back (DD Smash song), She Speeds, Sinner (Neil Finn song), Slice of Heaven, Solo (DD Smash song), So True (The Black Seeds song), Stop, Drop and Roll, Suburbia Streets, Sunshine (Alphrisk song), Surrender (DD Smash song), Sway (Bic Runga song), System Overload, The Heater, The Otherside, Too Late for Lovers, Trippin' (Push Push song), Victoria (Dance Exponents song), Walkie Talkie Man, Walking In Light (song), Wandering Eye, Welcome Home (Dave Dobbyn song), Whaling (DD Smash song), Why Does Love Do This to Me?, Wonderful (Erakah song), You'll Never Take That Away (Jamie McDell song), You Make the Whole World Smile, You Oughta Be In Love. Excerpt: "God Defend New Zealand" is one of two national anthems of New Zealand, the other being "God Save the Queen." Legally they have equal status, but "God Defend New Zealand" is more commonly used, and is popularly referred to as "the national anthem." The anthem has English and M ori lyrics, with slightly different meanings. New Zealand Historic Places Trust blue plaque at the site of the first performance in Dunedin"God Defend New Zealand" was written as a poem in the 1870s by Irish-born, Victorian-raised immigrant Thomas Bracken of Dunedin. A competition to compose music for the poem was held in 1876 by The Saturday Advertiser and judged by three prominent Melbourne musicians, with a prize of ten guineas. The winner of the competition was the Tasmanian-born John Joseph Woods of Lawrence, New Zealand who composed the melody in a single sitting the evening after finding out about the competition. The song was first performed at the Queen's Theatre, Princes Street, Dunedin, on Christmas Day, 1876. The song became increasingly popular during the 19th century and early 20th century, and in 1940 the New Zealand government bought the copyright and made it New Zealand's national hymn in time for that year's centennial celebrations. It was used at the British Empire Games from 1950 onward, and first used at the Olympics during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Following the performance at the Munich games, a campaign began to have the song adopted as the national anthem. In May 1973 a remit to change the New Zealand Flag, declare a New Zealand republic and change the national anthem from God Save the Queen was voted down by the Labour Party at their national conference. In 1976 a petition was presented to Parliament asking God Defend New Zealand to be made the national anthem, and, with the permission of Queen Elizabeth II, it became the country's second national anthem on 21 November 1977, on equal standing with "God Save the Queen." Up until then "God Save the Queen" was