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Haurongo: Small, Joe

Professional balladist Joe Small performing his song, 'The unfortunate man'

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Professional balladist Joe Small performing his song, 'The unfortunate man'

Joe Small's rendition of his most popular song, 'The unfortunate man', had audiences in stitches: the New Zealand Herald reported in April 1864 'certain it is we never saw anything more comic'.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: E-309-q-1-003

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Robert H. B. Hoskins. 'Small, Joe', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1990. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/1868/professional-balladist-joe-small-performing-his-song-the-unfortunate-man (accessed 4 June 2026).