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- Touch Of A Country Scandal
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Looking back, the years between 1976 and 1983 really were a golden age of New Zealand country music. And it was all about television: hay bales, gingham shirts and full-throated singalongs. The show Touch of Country, featuring “legends” Gray Bartlett, Brendan Dugan and Jodi Vaughan, got the ball rolling. In 1980 came That’s Country, a slick TVNZ series filmed at Christchurch’s James Hay Theatre and hosted by Ray Columbus (who famously once said he detested country and western but obviously th...
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- 3 Dec 2013
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- Redmer Yska
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- https://www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/touch-of-a-country-scandal
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