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- ↑ Shilkret, Nathaniel, ed. Shell, Niel and Barbara Shilkret, Nathaniel Shilkret: Sixty Years in the Music Business, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, 2005, p.36, 47 and 95. ISBN 0-8108-5128-8
- ↑ Sudhalter, Richard, Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz, 1915--1945, Oxford, New York, 1999, p. 313. ISBN 0-19-505585-3
- ↑ Victor Recording Book log, pp. 5245, 5247, 5215, 5257, 5259, 5262, 5322, and 5328.
- ↑ "Edward T. King Returns to Columbia Phonograph Co.," Talking Machine World Vol. 22, No. 11, November 15, 1926, p. 42