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- ↑ Billboard - Godmother: Sugar Hill Records’ Sylvia Robinson By Dan Charnas
- ↑ MusicVF.com - George Kerr Top Songs, Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography
- ↑ Popsike - GEORGE KERR If This World Were All Platinum RARE KILLER SWEET SOUL LP * Listen
- ↑ Billboard, August 25, 1973 - Page 51 Billboard's Top Single Picks, Soul, also recommended
- ↑ Cash Box, January 25, 1975 - cash box / singles reviews, newcomer picks
- ↑ Billboard, January 25, 1975 - Page 58 Billboard's Top Single Picks, Soul, recommended
- ↑ The Foundations, Baby Now That I've Found You, Sequel Records NEECD 300, Notes by Roger Dopson
- ↑ Shazam - Something for My Baby The New Foundations
- ↑ Music Week, January 31, 1976 - Page 7 Internationally yours PYE RECORDS
(*Note: SOMETHING ABOUT MY BABY is incorrect. Title should be "Something For My Baby")
- ↑ Soul & Jazz & Funk, 17 Nov 2017 - PHYLLIS HYMAN: ‘DELIVER THE LOVE – THE ANTHOLOGY’ (SOULMUSIC RECORDS) By Charles Waring
- ↑ Record World, September 13, 1980 - Page 106 Record World Black Oriented Music, Black Music Report By KEN SMIKLE