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Biography: Morton, Tex

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Bibliography

‘Country music pioneer’. New Zealand Listener. 21 June 1968: 53

‘How Tex Morton became a legend’. Dominion. 3 Sept. 1983: 8

‘Singing cowboy’. New Zealand Listener. 21 Oct. 1949: 7

Spittle, G. Counting the beat. Wellington, 1997

Watson, E. Country music in Australia. 2nd ed. Kensington, 1975

How to cite this page

Gordon Spittle. 'Morton, Tex', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2000, updated January 2002. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/127799/sources (accessed 5 June 2026).