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- ↑ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 433. ISBN 978-1538103739.
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- ↑ "Cannonbal Adderley / the complete discography as a sideman". Cannonball-adderley.com.
- ↑ Waters, John (2019). Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374715571 . Retrieved 21 March 2020.
