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- ↑ "MCA Buys Kapp in New Surge To Be a Major Record Complex" (PDF). Billboard. December 9, 1967. p. 3.
- ↑ "MCA in R&B With Revue" (PDF). Billboard. October 7, 1967. p. 3.