Kiwi Music Scene 1968, The AwaitingStock All the hits (Santa Monica

All the hits (Santa Monica

and the intensely personal “Fort Worth Blues”

The country was heading in a direction Young had never seen

the spoken word-poetry song

Kiwi Music Scene 1968, The AwaitingStock All the hits (Santa Monica1968 was the most successful year for New Zealand music during the last millennium. There were over 120 singles released by local artists, of these 88 were aimed at the pop music market. 21 releases charted in the National Top 20 with a staggering 19 going on into the Top 10 making 1968 a landmark year for local music, a record that stood for over 40 years. It was also a year of change across all aspects of the industry. The local record label