John Williamson discography
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John Williamson discography | |
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Studio albums | 20 |
Live albums | 8 |
Compilation albums | 25 |
EPs | 3 |
Soundtracks | 1 |
Box sets | 1 |
The discography of John Williamson, an Australian singer-songwriter, consists of twenty studio albums, twenty-five compilation album, eight live album, three EPs. Williamson has sold over 4 million records in Australia.[1]
Albums
[edit]Studio albums
[edit]Title | Album details | Chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
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AUS [2][3][4] | |||
John Williamson |
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Comic Strip Cowboy |
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Road to Town |
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— | |
Fair Dinkum J.W. |
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142 | |
Road Thru the Heart |
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— | |
Mallee Boy |
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9 |
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Boomerang Café |
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10 | |
Warragul |
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1 |
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JW's Family Album |
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21 |
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Waratah St |
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14 |
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Mulga to Mangoes |
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14 |
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Family Album No.2 |
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100[4] | |
Pipe Dream |
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6 |
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The Way It Is |
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10 |
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Gunyah |
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20 |
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Chandelier of Stars |
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11 |
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Hillbilly Road |
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6 |
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The Big Red |
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15 | |
Honest People |
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11 | |
Butcherbird |
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13 |
Live albums
[edit]Title | Album details | Chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
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AUS [2][3][4][13] | |||
Travlin' Out West in Concert (with Emma Hannah, Ricky And Tammy) |
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From Travlin' Out West (with Emma Hannah, Ricky And Tammy) |
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Singing in the Suburbs |
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The Smell of Gum Leaves |
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49 | |
John Williamson for Aussie Kids |
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151 | |
Boogie with M'Baby |
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— | |
Mates on the Road (with Pixie Jenkins, Warren H. Williams) |
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98 [15] | |
John Williamson in Symphony (with he Sydney Symphony) |
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—[A] |
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Notes
Soundtrack albums
[edit]Title | Album details |
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Quambatook |
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Compilation albums
[edit]Title | Album details | Chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
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AUS [2][3][4][13] | |||
Radio Special |
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Country Greats |
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True Blue – The Best of John Williamson |
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Humble Beginnings |
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133 | |
All the Best! |
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27 | |
Australia Calling – All the Best Vol 2 |
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32 |
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Love Is a Good Woman |
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123 | |
True Blue – The Very Best of John Williamson |
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21 |
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Country Classics |
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The Spirit of Australia |
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Wandering Australia |
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The Glory of Australia |
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Laugh Along with John Williamson |
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Australia |
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Anthems – A Celebration of Australia |
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16 |
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True Blue Two |
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8 |
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From Bulldust to Bitumen: 20 Queensland Songs |
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We Love this Country |
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Country Classics 2 |
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The Platinum Collection |
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25 |
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Wildlife Warriors |
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78 | |
Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue |
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23 |
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Hell of a Career |
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24 | |
His Favourite Collection |
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9 | |
JW Bangers |
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— |
Box sets
[edit]Title | Album details | Chart positions |
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AUS [25] | ||
JW Winding Back 1970-2020 |
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50 |
Chronological list of all albums
[edit]- John Williamson (1970)
- Travlin' Out West in Concert (1973)
- From Travlin' Out West (1974)
- Comic Strip Cowboy (1976)
- Road to Town (1978)
- Radio Special (1978)
- Country Greats (1978)
- Fair Dinkum J.W. (1982)
- True Blue – The Best of John Williamson (1982)
- Singing in the Suburbs (1983)
- The Smell of Gum Leaves (1984)
- Humble Beginnings (1985)
- Road Thru the Heart (1985)
- All the Best! (1986)
- Mallee Boy (1986)
- Boomerang Café (1988)
- Warragul (1989)
- JW's Family Album (1990)
- Waratah St (1991)
- Australia Calling – All the Best Vol 2 (1992)
- Love Is a Good Woman (1993)
- Mulga to Mangoes (1994)
- True Blue – The Very Best of John Williamson (1995)
- Family Album No.2 (1996)
- Pipe Dream (1997)
- Country Classics (1997)
- The Spirit of Australia (1998)
- Wandering Australia (1998)
- John Williamson for Aussie Kids (1998)
- Boogie with M'Baby (1998)
- The Glory of Australia (1999)
- Laugh Along with John Williamson (1999)
- The Way It Is (1999)
- Australia (1999)
- Anthems – A Celebration of Australia (August 2000)
- Gunyah (2002)
- True Blue Two (2003)
- Mates on the Road (2004)
- From Bulldust to Bitumen: 20 Queensland Songs (2005)
- Chandelier of Stars (2005)
- We Love this Country (2005)
- Country Classics 2 (2006)
- The Platinum Collection (2006)
- Wildlife Warriors (2006)
- Hillbilly Road (2008)
- Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue (2010)
- John Williamson in Symphony (2011)
- The Big Red (2012)
- Hell of a Career (2013)
- Honest People (2014)
- His Favourite Collection (2016)
- Butcherbird (2018)
- JW Winding Back 1970-2020 (2020)
- JW Bangers (2022)
Extended plays
[edit]Title | EP details | Chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
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AUS [2][3] | |||
Old Man Emu |
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Diggers of the Anzac |
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100 [26] |
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Looking for a Story |
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32 |
Singles
[edit]![]() | This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2021) |
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album |
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AUS [3][4][27] | ||||
"Old Man Emu"/"Old Gum Tree" | 1970 | 4 |
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John Williamson |
"The Unexplored Shadows of Mine"/"Under the Bridge" | — | |||
"Beautiful Sydney"/"Melbourne Blue, Melbourne Green" | 1971 | — | ||
"Misery Farm"/"Seaside Girls" | 1972 | — | Old Man Emu (EP) | |
"Big Country Round"/"Shades of Grey" | — | |||
"W-w-wallaby"/"The Morning After" | 1974 | — | John Williamson | |
"Alfred Koala Bear" | — | non-album single | ||
"Comic Strip Cowboy" | 1975 | — | Comic Strip Cowboy | |
"It's a Grab It While It's Goin' Kind of Life" | 1977 | — | Country Greats | |
"Come Ride a Country Road" | 1978 | — | ||
"Tearjerkers" | — | |||
"Lonesome Playground" | — | Radio Special | ||
"Murrumbidgee Madness" | 1979 | — | Road to Town | |
"The Breaker" (with Charles 'Bud' Tingwell) | 1981 | 100 | True Blue – The Best of John Williamson | |
"Diggers of the ANZAC (This Is Gallipoli)" | — | |||
"True Blue" | 1982 | — | ||
"(You Gotta Be) Fair Dinkum" (with Karen Johns) | — | Fair Dinkum J.W. | ||
"The Buddies Song (Have a Go)" | 1983 | — | Buddies soundtrack | |
"The Vasectomy Song" | 28 | Singing in the Suburbs | ||
"Lillee and McEnroe" | 1984 | — | ||
"I'm Fair Dinkum" | 59 | The Smell of Gum Leaves | ||
"Dad's Flowers" | — | |||
"Go to Nashville" | 1985 | — | Road Thru the Heart | |
"You and My Guitar" | — | |||
"Goodbye Blinky Bill" | 1986 | — | All the Best | |
"True Blue" (re-release) | 43 | Mallee Boy | ||
"Raining on the Rock" | 1987 | — | ||
"Cootamundra Wattle" | — | |||
"Crocodile Roll" | 1988 | — | Boomerang Café | |
"The Boomerang Café" | — | |||
"The March for Australia (A New Beginning)" | — | |||
"Station Cook" | 1989 | — | Warragul | |
"Rip Rip Woodchip" | 39 | |||
"Boogie with M'Baby" | 42 | |||
"Special Girl" | — | |||
"Old Man Emu" (re-release) | 1990 | 155 | JW's Family Album | |
"Christmas Photo" | 113 | |||
"A Flag of Our Own" | 1991 | 119 | Waratah Street | |
"Waratah Street" | 142 | |||
"(This Is) Australia Calling" | 1992 | 123 | Australia Calling – All the Best Vol 2 | |
"I'll Be Gone" | 131 | |||
"Good Woman" | 1993 | 123 | Good Woman | |
"Seven Year Itch" | 1994 | 181 | Mulga to Mangoes | |
"River Crying Out" | 159 | |||
"Tropical Fever" | 160 | |||
"No One Loves Brisbane Like Jesus" | 1995 | 161 | True Blue – The Very Best of John Williamson | |
"Sir Don" | 1996 | 72 | Pipe Dream | |
"Bush Telegraph" | 1997 | — | ||
"The Golden Kangaroo" | — | Family Album Number 2 | ||
"Raining on the Rock" (with Warren H Williams) | 1998 | — | Country Friends (Warren H Williams album) | |
"A Thousand Feet" (with Warren H Williams) | 1999 | — | The Way It Is | |
"Purple Roses" | — | |||
"Number on My Back / The Baggy Green"(with Steve Waugh) | 95 | |||
"This Ancient Land"(with Jimmy Little) | 2000 | — | Anthems – A Celebration of Australia | |
"Waltzing Matilda" | 165 | |||
"Sing You in the Outback" | 2002 | 176 | Gunyah | |
"Buried in Her Bedclothes" | — | |||
"Raining on the Plains" (with Sara Storer) | — | Beautiful Circle (Sara Storer album) | ||
"Keep Australia Beautiful"[28] | 2003 | — | True Blue Two | |
"True Blue" (21st Anniversary) | 103 | |||
"A Chandelier of Stars" | 2005 | — | A Chandelier of Stars | |
"A Country Balladeer" | — | |||
"Flower on the Water" | — | |||
"We Love This Country" | — | We Love This Country | ||
"Wildlife Warriors: It's Time" | 2006 | — | Wildlife Warriors | |
"And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" (live) | 2008 | 146 | The Platinum Collection | |
"Drink a Little Love"[29] | — | Hillbilly Road | ||
"Cydi"[29] | — | |||
"Hillbilly Road"[29] | — | |||
"Australia Is Another Word for Free"(with Warren H. Williams)[29] | 2009 | — | ||
"Better Than a Picture"[29] | — | |||
"King of the Road"(with Adam Harvey) | — | Both Sides Now | ||
"Island of Oceans"(with Shannon Noll) [30] | 2010 | — | Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue | |
"Hang My Hat in Queensland"[31] | 2011 | — | The Big Red | |
"The Big Red" | 2012 | — | ||
"Prairie Hotel Parachilna"[32] | 2013 | — | ||
"Grandpa's Cricket"[33] | 2014 | — | Honest People | |
"Honest People"[34] | — | |||
"Clouds Over Tamworth" | — | |||
"Looking for a Story" | 2016 | — | Looking for a Story | |
"Aussie Girls!" | — | His Favourite Collection | ||
"Pigs on the River"[35] | 2017 | — | Butcherbird | |
"Love Is the Word"[36] | — | non-album single | ||
"The Valley of His Dreams" | 2018 | — | Butcherbird | |
"Flowers of Jacaranda"[37] | 2019 | — | ||
"Three Sons"(with Aleyce Simmonds)[38] | — | |||
"Those Fifty Years"[39] | 2020 | — | JW Winding Back 1970-2020 | |
"The Great Divide"[40] | — | |||
"Come Back To Me, Country"[41] | 2021 | — | ||
"It's Raining Again"[42] | 2022 | — | ||
"Waiting for the Sun" (with Ami Williamson)[43] | — | |||
"The Voice of the Sea"[44] | — | |||
"Voice from the Heart"[45] | 2023 | — | non album singles | |
"Uluru Forever"[45] | — |
Video albums
[edit]Title | Details | Certification |
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John Williamson Live |
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Welcome to the Campfire |
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Waratah Street Live |
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Australia Calling |
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Mulga to Mangoes – Live At The Woolshed |
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True Blue - The Videos |
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For Aussie Kids |
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The Way It Is |
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The Way It Is |
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Anthems: A Celebration of Australia |
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Gunyah – I'll Sing You the Outback |
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True Blue Two - The VHS Collection |
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Mates On the Road |
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Chandelier of Stars |
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Hillbilly Road |
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Absolute Greatest: 40 Years True Blue |
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John Williamson in Symphony |
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Songs from the Outback |
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Music videos
[edit]![]() | This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2021) |
Year | Video |
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1989 | "Rip Rip Woodchip" |
"Boogie with M'Baby" | |
1992 | "I'll Be Gone" |
"Australia Calling" | |
1994 | "River Crying Out" |
"Tropical Fever" | |
1998 | "Raining On The Rock" |
1999 | "A Thousand Feet" |
2003 | "True Blue" |
2005 | "Chandelier Of Stars" |
"Little Girl From The Dryland" | |
2009 | "Australia Is Another Word For Free" |
"Better Than A Picture" | |
"King Of The Road" | |
2011 | "Hang My Hat In Queensland" |
2012 | "The Big Red" |
2013 | "Prairie Hotel Parachilna" |
2014 | "Honest People" |
References
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- ^ "Keep Australia Beautiful". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
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- ^ "John Celebrates 40 Years". Australian Times. April 2010. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
- ^ "Hang My Hat in Queensland - single". Apple Music. 16 December 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- ^ "Prairie Hotel Parachilna - single". Apple Music. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- ^ "Grandpa's Cricket –Single". Apple Music. 3 January 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- ^ "Honest People – Single". Apple Music. 4 July 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- ^ "Pigs on the River - Single". Apple Music. 20 October 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ "Love Is the Word - Single". Apple Music. 20 October 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ "Flowers of Jacaranda - Single". Apple Music. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ "Three Sons - Single". Apple Music. 6 December 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ "Those Fifty Years - Single". Apple Music. 12 June 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
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- ^ "Waiting for the Sun (with Ami Williamson) - Single". Apple Music. 14 October 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ "The Voice Of The Sea - Single". Apple Music. 18 November 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
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