{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2016}} {{use dmy dates|date=July 2016}} {{Infobox album | name = The Mauri Hikitia | type = compilation | artist = Various | cover =The Mauri Hikitia.jpg | alt = | released = 1981 | recorded = Mandrill Studios | venue = | studio = | genre = Pop | length = | label = Epic ELPS 4192 (CBS) | producer = | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = | misc = {{Extra album cover | cover = | border = | alt = | caption = }} }}

'''''The Mauri Hikitia''''' is a various artists album released in 1981. It reached no 4 on the New Zealand charts.<ref>The Official NZ Music Charts [https://web.archive.org/web/20160821150640/http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/render_pdf?pdf=287_14.06.1981_chartpdf.pdf 14 June 1981, CHART #287, Top 10 Compilation]</ref> It features Rhonda, Ken Kincaid, Deane Waretini, and the Lightwood family.<ref>Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/436753 Object: The Mauri Hikitia Album]</ref>

==Background== The album was represented by various Maori artists / musicians who came together to support the Mount Smart Stadium project.<ref>National Library of New Zealand [http://natlib.govt.nz/records/20619138?search%5Bpath%5D=items&search%5Btext%5D=%22Mauri+Hikitia%22 The Mauri Hikitia album (sound recording) / various artists.]</ref> The term Mauri Hikitia comes from George Tait, a cultural organiser and composer.<ref>The New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua Me Ngā Taonga Kōrero [http://www.ngataonga.org.nz/collections/catalogue/catalogue-item?record_id=229717 Catalogue → 45578, Te puna wai kōrero. 12 December 1981]</ref> Tait wrote the words to The Bridge, which was a number 1 hit for Deane Waretini.<ref>''The New Zealand Herald'' – Monday Mar 30, 2009 [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10564340 You must remember this, Deane Waretini – ''The Bridge'' – By Alan Perrott]</ref>

As a new arrival to the charts, it was no 7 by 24 May 1981.<ref>The Official NZ Music Charts [https://web.archive.org/web/20160821162122/http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/render_pdf?pdf=284_24.05.1981_chartpdf.pdf 24 May 1981, CHART #284, Top 10 Compilations]</ref> By 14 June, it was at no 4,<ref>The Official NZ Music Charts [https://web.archive.org/web/20160821150640/http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/render_pdf?pdf=287_14.06.1981_chartpdf.pdf 14 June 1981, CHART #287, Top 10 Compilation]</ref> and by 21 June it had dropped one to position 5.<ref>The Official NZ Music Charts [https://web.archive.org/web/20160821165306/http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/render_pdf?pdf=288_21.06.1981_chartpdf.pdf 21 June 1981, CHART #288, Top 10 Compilations]</ref>

===Artists and production=== It was recorded at Mandrill Recording Studios in Auckland.<ref>National Library of New Zealand [http://natlib.govt.nz/records/20619138?search%5Bpath%5D=items&search%5Btext%5D=%22Mauri+Hikitia%22 The Mauri Hikitia album (sound recording) / various artists.]</ref>

Rhonda was a well known Maori entertainer and recording artist, who died in 2007.<ref>''The Dominion Post'', 05/10/2007 [http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/archive/national-news/3385/Show-stopping-Queen-of-the-South-Pacific-dies Show-stopping 'Queen of the South Pacific' dies]</ref><ref>''Manawa – Pacific Heartbeat: A Celebration of Contemporary Maori and Northwest Coast Art'', Nigel Reading, Gary Wyatt [https://books.google.com/books?id=2vHpAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Rhonda+Bryers%22 Page 16]</ref> Ken Kincaid had a single "Easy" released on CBS BA 222834. The B side of the single, "Song For Home" aka "Now Is The Hour" is from this compilation.<ref>The New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua Me Ngā Taonga Kōrero [http://www.ngataonga.org.nz/collections/catalogue/catalogue-item?record_id=173435 Catalogue → 18487, Easy]</ref><ref>New Zealand Records [http://www.newzealandrecords.co.nz/single_details.php?ID=1425 The Ken Kincaid Single 'Easy']</ref><ref>National Library of New Zealand [http://nlnzcat.natlib.govt.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=9249&recCount=25&recPointer=1&bibId=1146886 Easy, arr. (and performed by) Ken Kincaid. Songs of home (Now is the hour) / trad.; (performed by) Ken Kincaid.]{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref> The following year, Kincaid had another CBS single which wasn't connected to the album.<ref>45cat [http://www.45cat.com/artist/ken-kincaid Ken Kincaid – Discography]</ref> Deane Waretini had been around since the early 1970s, and prior to his hit with "The Bridge" in 1981,<ref>''New Zealand Herald'', Saturday, 25 July 2015 [http://m.nzherald.co.nz/maori/news/article.cfm?c_id=252&objectid=11486484 Songs that took Te Reo into the Pop Charts, Deane Waretini – The Bridge]</ref> he had already had two singles released on the Tony McCarthy Recordings label. The first was in 1972,<ref>''Te Ao Hou'' The Maori Magazine Number 72 [http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/journals/teaohou/image/Mao72TeA/Mao72TeA049.html Page 49 People and Places, New Dean Waretini]</ref><ref>Discogs [https://www.discogs.com/Deane-Waretini-Trouble-In-My-Life/release/5997412 Deane Waretini (2) – Trouble In My Life]</ref> and the second the following year.<ref>The New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound [http://www.ngataonga.org.nz/collections/catalogue/catalogue-item?record_id=174983 Catalogue → 20866, Melody Butterfly]</ref>

==The album== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |+ The Mauri Hikitia |+ Epic ELPS 4192 (CBS) |+ 1981 |- ! scope="col" | Artist ! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Composer ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Time |- ! scope="row" | The Lightwood Family | "You Are My Sunshine" | Davis, Mitchell | |- ! scope="row" | Rhonda | "Pokarekare Ana" | P.H. Tomoana | |- ! scope="row" | Ken Kincaid | Songs of home : "Now Is the Hour"" | trad.; arr. Eddie Low | |- ! scope="row" | Tri Lites | "Your love controls" | B. McCracken, A. Cunningham | |- ! scope="row" | Tri Lites | "Cupid" | Cooke | |- ! scope="row" | Tri Lites | "Let It Be Me" | Curtis, Delande, Becaud | |- ! scope="row" | Rhonda | "Waiheke" | Waikiki, Cummings | |- ! scope="row" | Lightwood Family | "Blue Moon" | Rogers, Hart | |- ! scope="row" | Deane Waretini | "All Those Nights" | Sharon O'Neill | |- ! scope="row" | Lightwood Family | "Let Me Be There" | Rostill | |- ! scope="row" | Deane Waretini | "Growing Old | Brian Holiday | |- |} <ref>National Library of New Zealand Catalogue [http://nlnzcat.natlib.govt.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1351381 The Mauri Hikitia album]{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref><ref>National Library of New Zealand [http://nlnzcat.natlib.govt.nz/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=9249&recCount=25&recPointer=1&bibId=1146886 Easy, arr. (and performed by) Ken Kincaid. Songs of home (Now is the hour) / trad.; (performed by) Ken Kincaid.]{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref>

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