- The Exponents – Like She Said (1994)/ Nameless Girl (1992)
- Blerta - Dance All Around The World (1972)/ Joy Joy (1972)
- Dragon – Young Years (1989)/ Rain (1984)
- John Hanlon - Higher Trails (1975)/ Wind Songs (1975)
Next in the Wozza countdown of the 10 best Nu Zild bands and their two best songs is not a band at all. John Hanlon is a singer/songwriter (still going strong I believe) who had a real knack for catchy toons in the seventies.
He was interesting because he often wrote songs with a NZ flavour and he was entertaining. His lyrics often seemed to contain NZ content - one lyric was about 'heading out of Auckland'. Quite a revelation, at least to me at the time.
Higher Trails was on the soundtrack of a great little documentary film called Off The Edge about a couple of American skiers/ hang glider pilots who climb/ski Mount Cook (I'm pretty sure it was Mt Cook) and then launch themselves off it.
They glide down to the strains of Higher Trails. Fantastic.
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