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Ten Guitars gives warm-spirited context to the song that has been the soundtrack to countless back-lawn crate parties and freezing works chains (watch the credits). It was released as the B side of singer Engelbert Humperdinck's Please Release Me, and became an unlikely hit in New Zealand. The star is interviewed, as well as fans who have done the "dance, dance, dance ...": including the Finn bros, Pio Terei, Mika and Dalvanius (who discusses its "pop-schlock" charms). The doco also explores why "the national anthem of Patea" is so appealing to Māori.
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Borris
Posted at 12.30AM - 05.06.2010
I loved this documentary, it had to be made. I sang this song on camping trips with the family, I thought it had been around forever, but actually it was pretty new then.