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- ↑ KRON-TV newsfilm from September 1968 featuring brief views of Lamb performing live onstage, in San Francisco: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/209218.
- ↑ "In Memorium: Barbara Mauritz of Lamb". 17 April 2014.
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