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- ↑ Robert Russell Bennett (ed. George Joseph Ferencz), The Broadway Sound, University of Rochester Press, 1998, p. 181.
- ↑ "Business Records, Bankruptcy Proceedings", The New York Times, 11 November 1937, p. 46.
- ↑ "The Boys That Make the Noise", Music section, Time , 5 July 1943.
- ↑ Steven Suskin, The Sound of Broadway Music, Oxford University Press, New York, 2009, p. 81
- ↑ Internet Broadway Data Base
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- ↑ Internet Movie Data Base
- ↑ Ted Royal Scores, Correspondence and Biographical Note, donated 1993 to the New York Public Library.
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