Slice of Heaven
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| Single by Dave Dobbyn with Herbs | |||||||||||
| from the album Footrot Flats: The Dog's |
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| Released | 12 September 1986 (New Zealand) | ||||||||||
| Format | CD, 7" | ||||||||||
| Recorded | 1986 | ||||||||||
| Genre | New Wave | ||||||||||
| Length | 4:38 | ||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Dave Dobbyn | ||||||||||
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"Slice of Heaven" is a single by New Zealand singer/songwriter Dave Dobbyn with the band Herbs, released in 1986 on the soundtrack of the animated motion picture, Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tail Tale. The single charted at No. 1 in New Zealand.[1] It also appeared on Dobbyn's 1988 album, Loyal.
[edit] Legacy
Slice of Heaven featured in Nature's Best—New Zealand's Top 30 Songs of All Time, coming in at number 7.
It was voted number 1 in 2009 by C4 viewers as New Zealand's favorite song, and is often considered an unofficial national anthem of New Zealand, especially after its usage in New Zealand tourism ads in the 1980s and 1990s.
[edit] References
- ^ "Slice of heaven". charts.org.nz. http://charts.org.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Dave+Dobbyn+with+Herbs&titel=Slice+Of+Heaven&cat=s. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
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