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- ↑ New Zealand Herald, Monday 4 April 2011 - Annie Crummer: Songs of my father
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- ↑ New Zealand Herald, Monday 4 April 2011 - Annie Crummer: Songs of my father
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- ↑ New Zealand Listener, 2 April 2011 - The Pasifika Social club By Chris Bourke In Music
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- ↑ New Zealand Herald, Monday 26 January 2015 - Auckland Anniversary Weekend: Music, food and fun - what's on today? By Tom Carnegie
- ↑ Discogs Will Crummer And The Sea Stars* – Romantic Rarotonga
- ↑ OPAC-Notice Notice n° 37326
- ↑ The New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision Catalogue → 21041, Apai atu koe iaku e ine
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- ↑ WorldCat Love songs of Polynesia
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