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- ↑ MY BRUDDA SYLVEST'; Words by Jesse Lasky. Music by Fred Fischer; Fred Fischer Music Pub. Co., 1431-33 Broadway, 1908
- ↑ Feldman's Old Time Variety Song Album No. 6, B.Feldman & Co., Ltd., London (1955)
- ↑ "Big Strong Man (My Brother Sylveste)". Brobdingnagian Bards . Retrieved 13 February 2013.
- 1 2 Hopkins, Anthony (1979). Songs from the front and rear: Canadian servicemen's songs of the Second World War . Edmonton: Hurtig. ISBN 0888301723. OCLC 15905196.
- ↑ McCoy, Sylvester (17 November 2023). "Sylvester McCoy". My life in a Mixtape. BBC Radio2. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
- ↑ Can be seen on Youtube
