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References
- ↑ Audio Culture, 20 Jun 2014 - Bunny Walters Profile - Steven Shaw
- ↑ Music.net.nz - Bunny Walters, Bio
- ↑ 45Cat - Record Details, Artist: Bunny Walters, Catalogue: IR 1080
- ↑ WorldCat - Home isn't home anymore (sound recording) / Mitch Murray (and) P. Callander ; (performed by) Bunny Walters. Quando quando / Renis, Gesta (and) Boone ; (performed by) Bunny Walters
- ↑ Hits of All Decades - NEW ZEALAND'S WEEKLY (NZ listener) SINGLE CHARTS FROM 1973
- ↑ Music.net.nz - Bunny Walters, Bio
- ↑ "SA Charts 1965–March 1989" . Retrieved 5 September 2018.