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RE: Some New Zealand music for Anzac day
No, we didn't do them, which was a shame. We do a few waiata in choir, and I'd like to have included a clip of us, but there are only some of our songs on Youtube.
But I will immediately go away and look for the Tui Teka medley you mention and some Billy T.
The hairs on the back of my neck are stirring, just thinking of how beautiful and powerful those harmonies would have been.
About the only thing to match them is the Fijian male choirs. The biggest bloke doing the tenor and the runt doing the bass. In 1958 to 60 the Suva radio station would close at 10.30 , usually with a male choir doing Isa Lei. Another hair raising memory.
While Maori was banned at school, we learned a lot of the traditional games and songs in primary schools, they were in the country which might have helped.
This Isa Lei might be closest to what you're describing that I can find
If I'd been a couple of years younger, I'd probably have been able to be in a Maori club and learned the songs.
These are the older members of the Fiji Army, try and add some high tenors from the youth, or walking past a church on Sunday and listening to the singing.
Brings a tear to the eye.
I can imagine