In 1960s New Zealand there was only place one could hear reverb-soaked surf music, blistering blues shouters, Phil Spector B-sides or James Brown’s funk, and it was probably the only place on earth where one would hear all of these in the same half-hour. That place was Big Beat Ball, a weekly radio programme on Wellington’s 2YD.
RNZ: Blue Smoke: Radio and NZ Pop, 12 June 2011
Te Ara: Arthur Pearce biography
Audio: Te Ara: Arthur Pearce on his early radio experiences, 1974
Cotton-Eyed Joe: Susy Pointon's four-part memoir of Arthur Pearce
Redmer Yska on Cotton-Eyed Joe
Aleisha Ward: Arthur Pearce: the Godfather of NZ radio jazz DJs, 2013