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- ↑ "That's Not The Way It's Got To Be!". Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
- ↑ Hunt, Ken (2 December 2010). "Irwin Silber". The Independent. London. Retrieved 7 December 2024– via ProQuest.
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