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- ↑ "Edward Byrnes, Kookie Star of "77 Sunset Strip"". Discogs.com. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
- ↑ "Edward Byrnes and Connie Stevens, "Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)" Chart Positions". Musicvf.com. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
- ↑ "Billboard Top 100 - 1959". Longboredsurfer.com. Archived from the original on January 2, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
- ↑ "Spike Jones, 60 Years of "Music America Hates Best"". Discogs.com. 1960. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
- ↑ "We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It, The Vindaloo Summer Special". Discogs.com. 1986. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
- ↑ "Anthrax's Charlie Benante Remembers Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes: "We had so much fun filming 'Married with Children' with him"…". Full in Bloom. 10 January 2020. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
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