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- ↑ "Hot Chocolates". Playbill.com. Playbill, Inc. 20 June 1929. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
Andy Razaf - Book; Thomas "Fats" Waller - Music; Harry Brooks - Music
- ↑ Brothers, Thomas (2014). Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-393-06582-4.
- ↑ "IBDB". ibdb.com. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
- ↑ Brothers, Thomas (2014). Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 345–46. ISBN 978-0-393-06582-4.
- ↑ "Hot Chocolates". Playbill.com. Playbill, Inc. 20 June 1929. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
Louis Armstrong - Ensemble
- ↑ Hildebrand, David K.; Schaaf, Elizabeth M. (2017). Musical Maryland: A History of Song and Performance from the Colonial Period to the Age of Radio. JHU Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-4214-2239-8.
