In addition to the concert parties and cultural clubs, popular recording artists, Isabel Whatarau Cohen and Virginia Whatarau, and Daphne Walker and George Tumahai appeared on the album. Joseph's Māori Girls College Choir, and Turakina Māori Girls College Choir. It featured acts such as Mauriora Entertainers, Motuiti Māori Youth Club, New Zealand Māori Theatre Trust Ohinemutu Māori Cultural Group, Ratana Senior Concert Party, St. In 1973, Viking released the compilation album, 20 Solid Gold Māori Songs. It received a good review by Alan Armstrong. The record included the chant 'Kingitanga' and a song, 'Paki-o-Matariki'. One album Ratana Presents by the Ratana Senior Concert Party was a mixture of traditional Māori tunes on side one and English language songs sung in Māori on side two. The recording included females singing in a modern style with guitar backing. They were an eight-person group led by Hamuera Mitchell. On June 26, 1964, the Ohinemutu Māori Cultural Group were recorded at Ohinemutu's Tama-te-Kapua Meeting House, which was a well known location.

Dinah Lee - Introducing Dinah Lee - Viking VP 140 (1964).Sam Cooke - Tribute To The Lady - Viking VPS.15 (1959).Some of its records were also issued in Australia. Other famous artists were Peter Posa, Maria Dallas, The Beau-Marks and Dinah Lee. Recording artists Īmong its most famous were Tongan steel guitarists Bill Sevesi and Bill Wolfgramm, Pepe and the Rarotongans and Tahitian-based Eddie Lund who was a pianist from Oregon. Viking records also had the distinction of releasing a record by The Mauriora Māori Entertainers which happened to be the very first Māori record released in Stereo. Maria Dallas won in 1966 for the song Tumblin' down. The 1965 award was won by Ray Columbus & the Invaders for the song Till We Kissed. In 19, Viking Records released the winning albums for the Loxene Golden Disc awards, the forerunner of the prestigious New Zealand Music Awards. At that time Viking's extensive catalogue was largely made up of recordings from Fiji, Samoa, Tahiti and New Zealand but they were looking to make a big move into the pop music genre as well. Dalton was intending to go to Chicago to confer with Leonard Chess. In 1962 in an effort to branch out, Ron Dalton and Murdoch Riley were in New York conferring with Walter Hofer to distribute American Independent records in Australia and New Zealand. In this late 1960s this company merged with Viking Records to become Viking Sevenseas NZ Ltd. In the early 1960s another company Sevenseas Publishing Pty Ltd was set up to publish sheet music and books. A third partner Jim Staples operated the Sydney, Australia branch. Its headquarters was in Wellington, New Zealand and owned by Ron Dalton and Murdoch Riley. Other labels to come close in output were Salem Records and Hibiscus Records. This record label was the largest supplier of Pacific Island and Māori music in New Zealand. The label recorded an extensive range of Pacific music from New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti and Tonga. In the 1960s, the company was the largest locally owned record label in the South Pacific with its New Zealand head office in Wellington and a branch in Sydney.

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