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- 1 2 Arnold Shaw, The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920s, (Oxford University Press, 1987), ISBN 978-0195060829, pp. 125, 160, 163. Excerpts available at Google Books.
- 1 2 Michael Lasser, America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years (Routledge, 2014), ISBN 978-1135094522, pp. 87-89. Excerpts available at Google Books.
- ↑ Philip Furia, Michael Lasser, America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley (Routledge, 2006), ISBN 978-1135471996, p. 50. Excerpts available at Google Books.
- ↑ Jack Buchanan biography at AllMusic (accessed 2015-03-31).
- ↑ David Neumeyer, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies (Oxford University Press, 2014), ISBN 978-0195328493, p. 276. Excerpts available at Google Books.
- ↑ Daniel Goldmark, "Carl Stalling and Humor in Cartoons", Animation World Magazine , April 1997.