"Slice of Heaven" is a single by New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 singer/songwriter Dave Dobbyn

Dave Dobbyn

Dave Dobbyn, ONZM is an award-winning New Zealand musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. In his early career he was a member of the rock group Th' Dudes and was the main creative force in pop band DD Smash...

 with the band Herbs

Herbs (band)

Herbs are a New Zealand reggae vocal group formed in 1979 once described as "New Zealand's most soulful, heartfelt and consistent contemporary musical voice". It has been said their debut EP Whats' Be Happen? "set a standard for Pacific reggae which has arguably never been surpassed".-History:Herbs...

, released in 1986 on the soundtrack of the animated motion picture, Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tail Tale

Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale

Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale is a 1986 New Zealand animated film, based on cartoonist Murray Ball's popular comic strip, Footrot Flats. It was New Zealand's first feature-length animated film.-Plot:Wal Footrot and Cooch Windgrass are shearing sheep on Wal's farm...

. The single charted at No. 1 in New Zealand. It also appeared on Dobbyn's 1988 album, Loyal

Loyal (album)

Loyal is a 1988 album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Dave Dobbyn.-Track listing:#"Love You Like I Should"#"Ain't No Doubt "#"Defying Gravity"#"Hell Takes No Holiday"#"Stay"#"Loyal"#"Slice of Heaven" featuring Herbs...

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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

1980s

File:1980s decade montage.png|thumb|400px|From left, clockwise: The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, lifted off in 1981; American President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev eased tensions between the two superpowers, leading to the end of the Cold War; The Fall of the Berlin Wall in...

 and 1990s

1990s

File:1990s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: The Hubble Space Telescope floats in space after it was taken up in 1990; American F-16s and F-15s fly over burning oil fields and the USA Lexie in Operation Desert Storm, also known as the 1991 Gulf War; The signing of the Oslo Accords on...

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