found: Aloha Samoa, 1962?:label (Bill Sevesi)
found: Pacific paradise [SR], p2000:insert (Bill Sevesi, b. Wilfred Jeffs, 1923)
found: Audioculture WWW site, viewed on October 24, 2022:Bill Sevesi page (Bill Sevesi aka Will Jess; Sevesi was born in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, in 1923, to a Tongan mother and a Liverpudlian father; in 1940, Sevesi formed a dance band, which was gigging regularly until he joined the army in 1944. Returning after two years' service, Sevesi and his band the Islanders became regulars on the busy Auckland dance circuit)
found: Wikipedia WWW site, viewed on October 25, 2022:Bill Sevesi page (Wilfred Jeffs QSM (28 July 1923 - 23 April 2016), better known by the stage name Bill Sevesi, was a musician and master of the steel guitar who helped popularise Hawaiian-style music in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands)
found: Blue smoke, 2010:page 225 ([Bill Sevesi] later played on other country sessions, notably backing expatriate Canadian singer Luke Simmons as a New Zealand version of his Blue Mountain Boys)
