From AudioCulture:
The story of songwriter Wayne Mason is familiar enough. Born in 1949 in New Plymouth with his teenage years spent in Upper Hutt, in 1963 he joined Heretaunga College band Sine Waves, which evolved into The Fourmyula, one of New Zealand's top bands of the 1960s. His next band of note was Rockinghorse, and in the 1980s there was The Warratahs. Three top NZ bands over three decades but hardly a household name, not like Dave Dobbyn or Neil Finn, despite that song. "Oh that song!" mimics Wayne Mason. "That's how a lot of my audiences react when I play 'Nature' – oh, he wrote that song." In 2001 Mason's song ‘Nature’, recorded by The Fourmyula in 1969, was chosen by APRA members to be the best New Zealand composition of the previous 75 years. It has been a hotly debated issue since (check out the NZ music social media pages) and everybody has an opinion. Best New Zealand song? It was always going to be a big call, but whether you agree or not, ‘Nature’ got the nod and there has been no other “official” survey since. (Read more...)
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From the Blog:
- New Album: Too Many Chiefs
- Upper Hutt Library's Oral History project
- New library 'Wellington' music releases on CD: Feb. – Jhan Lindsay/Wayne Mason/Del Thomas/Timothy Blackman/Tomorrow People/Tunes Of I/What Noisy Cats
- New library 'Wellington' music releases on CD: November - Wayne Mason/Lie To Me/Darren Watson
Hi
Is it possible to get the lyrics of ‘Come With Me’ by the Fourmyula please. It is for my personal collection. The songs i enjoy i download them to enjoy when Im feeling a bit down
Thank u
Mrs) Christine Robertson
Hello Christine. Here are the lyrics to that track:
Like looking out across the sea of dreams
The horizon looks much closer than it seems
Come take a boat with me girl
An enjoy the realms of dreamworld
Come with me
We’ll see colours like you’ve never seen before
Nice colours that each one of us can draw
For it’s simple and it’s easy there
It’s written to be seen there
Come with me
Come with me we’ll be gone join our hands and sing a song
And we’ll all soon be there
There’s no worries there’s no cares
All our troubles melt in air
And we’ll all soon be there
It’s time to go and I must take our leave
We’ll say goodbye and drift off with the breeze
Once there I’m sure you’ll find that
There’s no place on Earth just like it
Come with me
Come with me we’ll be gone join our hands and sing a song
And we’ll all soon be there
There’s no worries there’s no cares
All our troubles melt in air
And we’ll all soon be there
Like looking out across the sea of dreams
The horizon looks much closer than it seems
Come take a boat with me girl
An enjoy the realms of dreamworld
Come with me
Come with me we’ll be gone join our hands and sing a song
And we’ll all soon be there
There’s no worries there’s no cares
All our troubles melt in air
And we’ll all soon be there
HI there – trying to contact Wayne Mason. Can you please let me know his email address. Thanks!
Hello Alan. We don’t have a contact address for him. You could try messaging Andrew London on Facebook. They perform together regularly. https://www.facebook.com/andrewlondonnz
Kind regards.