"Waiata Poi"- PETER DAWSON

[nickfloodban]

I think I can't post the link here but if you Google "Separation Circle Waiata Poi" you should be able to find it.

[nickfloodban]

3 years ago from my wife's Nojited1 account, I mentioned hopes of a 'tribute' recording of this song. Various distractions (work, my own songs & life generally) meant that it's taken ages, but it's now online if anyone's interested. Generally I believe that cover versions should be different from the original. Here however I DID try to replicate the original. Due to my limitations (especially singing) the quality isn't brilliant but it's done!

[duettists]

I am glad to hear this on You Tube - I could not find it earlier . The chorus accompanying Peter, included Webster Booth and George Baker, but I'm not sure of the name of the other two singers in the chorus. Ray Noble was the conductor.

[Isidore98]

This excellent. Dawson makes something monumental of what I suppose is something of dubious morality. A great performance.

[felinegoood]

Does anyone have a copy of this. I need a recording of it for a project I'm working on?

[saltburner2]

Recorded on 3 March 1938 at Abbey Road Studios: orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr.

[duettists]

@saltburner2 I also had the information that it was recorded in 1938, but the photograph of the rehearsal for the recording (in Peter Dawson's autobiography) shows Ray Noble, along with Peter Dawson, Webster Booth, George Baker and others, so I thought he was the conductor. I always thought the recording was made in 1934. By 1938 Ray Noble was working in the US.

[saltburner2]

@duettists

The information is in Mike Comber's Dawson Discography, which he self-published in 2001.

It is obtainable from his address in Preston, Lancs.

There is no other Dawson recording of this item listed: but I suppose there might be a broadcast or film-clip version.

[Nojited1]

My dad had this 78 too. I'm hoping to make my own 'tribute' recording of this song though of course I won't be able to come near to Peter Dawson's atmospheric recording.

[felinegoood]

How did you get on with your tribute recording? I'd be keen to hear.

[RODADY2]

I heard this recording by Peter Dawson played on the radio so many times when I was a child in the 1940s. I loved it, because it had so much energy.

(Rodady's dad)

[gramophoneshane]

Yes... It's quite different to the Ana Hato version I have.