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- ↑ "Funday Club", Sunday Telegraph, 30 April 2000
- ↑ Best Children's Album, Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)
- ↑ Honan, Kim (20 January 2016). "Australian songwriter features in Oscar nominated Sicario". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Retrieved 15 June 2019.
- ↑ Flower Pot Gang; Barton, Phil; O'Hara, Benjamin (1996). "Fun Time!". Crow's Nest, NSW: ABC Music/EMI . Retrieved 13 June 2019.
Produced by Phil Barton and Benjamin O'Hara
- ↑ Flower Pot Gang; Barton, Phil; O'Hara, Benjamin; ABC Music (1997). "Happy Little Flower Pots!". ABC/EMI. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
- ↑ Flower Pot Gang; Gentz, Kristy; Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (1999). "Spot in the Park". ABC Music [production company], EMI [distributor]. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
Performer: The Flower Pot Gang are Kristy Gentz, vocals; Ben O'Hara, drums, vocals; Phil Barton, Guitars, vocals
- ↑ Flower Pot Gang (Musical group); Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (1999). "The Flower Pot Gang". ABC Music [production company], EMI [distributor]. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
All songs written by Phil Barton, Kristy Gentz, Ben O'Hara
- ↑ Flower Pot Gang; Napier, Peter; Dunn, Jeremy; Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC); Roadshow Entertainment (Firm) (2000). "The Flower Pot Gang: Under the Flower Pot Rainbow". ABC: Roadshow Entertainment [distributor]. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
Credits: Director, Peter Napier; producer, Jeremy Dunn; writer, Kristy Gentz and the Flower Pot Gang; produced by the Flower Pot Gang
- ↑ "Most Performed Children's Work", APRA