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- ↑ "© I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside, English Music Hall Song, MIDI and Lyrics". Eastbournecousins.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-19. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
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- ↑ "About this Recording". Naxos. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
- ↑ Evans, Edwin (1920). "Ralph Vaughan Williams (Contd.)". Modern British Composers. The Musical Times. 61 (927): 302–305. doi:10.2307/909930. ISSN 2397-5318. JSTOR 909930.
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- ↑ Cannon, John. "Isabel Jay", Gilbert and Sullivan News, The Gilbert and Sullivan Society (London), Vol. V, No. 10, Spring 2016, pp. 14–17
- ↑ The Gay Gordons in The Play Pictorial, No. 63, Vol. 10, October 1907
- ↑ Bennett, J R Sterndale (1907). The Life of William Sterndale Bennett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 63021710.
- ↑ The Times, 6 February 1907, p. 10