Les Cleveland had a strong interest in New Zealand vernacular music. He recorded old New Zealand folk songs for commercial release, along with others he co-wrote with Joe Charles. In this 1950s recording, he and the Black Billy Boys perform four of his collaborations with Charles, ‘McKenzie and his dog’, ‘The Coleridge run’, ‘The phosphate flyers’, and ‘Black billy tea’. The photograph was taken in Wellington in 1959.
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by Les Cleveland
Image: Alexander Turnbull Library, Les Cleveland Collection. 1/4-129207-F
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