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- ↑ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 . Wisconsin, USA: Record Research Inc. p. 109. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.
- ↑ "Decca 4000 - 4600 Numerical Listing". 78discography.com. The Online Discographical Project. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
- ↑ "COLUMBIA (Microphone label, USA) 36500 to 37000 Numerical Listing". 78discography.com. The Online Discographical Project. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
- ↑ "BLUEBIRD numerical listings 11000 - 11500". 78discography.com. The Online Discographical Project. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
- 1 2 "18000 - 18500 Numerical Listing". 78discography.com. The Online Discographical Project. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
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- Townsend, Peter (1 March 2009). Pearl Harbor Jazz: Changes in Popular Music in the Early 1940s. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-243-6.
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