[1] They were amongst the first to perform and record country music in New Zealand with their cover of Gussie Davis's standard "Maple on the Hill" reportedly selling over 80,000 copies, making it one of New Zealand's most sold singles of all time and equivalent to a double-platinum disc.
The band formed in March 1949 after bassist Bill Ditchfield for the group The Hawaiian Serenaders was inspired to start a country music band when he heard one of the stage show dancers, Nola Hewitt, sing a rendition of "Maple on the Hill".
Bill was joined by Nola and her sister Myra, who was also a stage show dancer, as well as two other members of his group, Cole Wilson and lap steel guitarist Colin McCrorie.
Recording was also done at Colin McCrorie's home at 181 Signal Hill Road in Opoho Dunedin.
The band were inducted into the New Zealand Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988, and hand impressions in cement were added to Gore's Gold Guitar Awards "Hands of Fame" walk in 1991.