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- ↑ Billboard - 24 Dec 1949 - Page 20 "Decca Records this week continued to fortify the redevelopment of its blues and rhythm department with the addition of the Ray-O-Vacs, a New Jersey Vocal group which had a hit waxing, I'll Always Be in Love With You, some months ago.
- 1 2 Steven C. Probes, Liner notes on LP Besame Mucho, Copenhagen, Official, 1989
- ↑ Barbara J. Kukla. Swing City : Newark nightlife 1925-50. - Rutgers University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0813531168
- ↑ J.C. Marion The Life and Times of The Ray-O-Vacs Retrieved Nov. 27, 2014
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