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- ↑ "The Life of a Song: 'God Bless the Child'". Financial Times. August 29, 2016. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
- ↑ Friedwald, Will. Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices from Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond, Da Capo, (1996) – ISBN 0-306-80712-2
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