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- ↑ See for example B.M.G. May 1958, page 212.
- ↑ Pasqual Troise on the Masters of Melody website. Angy Palumbo can be seen in the third photo on the page, sitting to the extreme right in the front row.
- ↑ Library of Congress: Catalog of copyright entries, Volume 35, Part 2.
- ↑ Angy Palumbo in Svensk filmdatabas (Swedish movie database) Archived 8 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Track information from Chandos Records for Captain Corelli's Mandolin and the Latin Trilogy – Music from the Novels of Louis de Bernières (Chandos CHAN9780)
- ↑ Angy Palumbo in the catalogue of the British Library
- ↑ B.M.G. January 1961, page 133.
