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Haurongo: Morton, Tex

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Rārangi pukapuka

‘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

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Gordon Spittle. 'Morton, Tex', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2000, whakahou January 2002. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/127799/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).