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- ↑ The Gramophone - Sir Compton Mackenzie, Christopher Stone - 1963 Volume 41 - Page 84 "The original 78s were Parlophone. ... Hence it is very pleasant to listen to the easy, graceful singing of David Thome (Stateside SSI 90) in One More Fool, or the pure soprano of Christine Campbell in 77k Loving Tree and My Love (Parlophone)
- ↑ The Man Who Wrote the Teddy Bears' Picnic J. J. Kennedy - 2011 "Wherever I go - Chris Charles & Tolchard Evans"
- ↑ Popular music, 1920-1979: a revised cumulation -Nat Shapiro, Bruce Pollock - 1985 Volume 1 - Page 677 "He Is Here (English) Words and music by Chris Charles and Tolchard Evans. Dick James Music Ltd., London, England/Dick James Music Inc., 1962. Introduced in United States in 1966 by Mahalia Jackson (Columbia).
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