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- ↑ Billboard , 8 August 1960 "... got renewed action and has become a big seller reaching No. 5 on the British chart. Just before the disk broke in America, young Mills took the 'vocal chair with Britain's leading large rock band, Bob Miller and the Millermen, and is tied there ..."
- ↑ Colin Larkin – The Guinness Who's Who of Fifties Music, 1993 – page 232: "Miller, Bob – The instrumental group, Bob Miller and the Millermen, appeared regularly on UK television and radio programmes in the 50s and early 60s. After being noticed at several London gigs, including one at the Locarno Ballroom, ..."
- 1 2 Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music (First ed.). Virgin Books. p. 305. ISBN 0-7535-0149-X.
- ↑ "Bob Miller And The Millermen Discography - UK". 45cat.com. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ↑ "Parade of the Pops". Genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 20 December 1961. p. 39. Retrieved 13 June 2021.