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- ↑ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (2 May 1942). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 11–.
- ↑ Tish Oney (2020). Peggy Lee: A Century of Song. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 16–. ISBN 978-1-5381-2848-0.
- 1 2 John Bush Jones (2006). The Songs that Fought the War: Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939-1945. UPNE. pp. 211–. ISBN 978-1-58465-443-8.
- ↑ Robert Strom (2005). Miss Peggy Lee: A Career Chronicle. McFarland. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-7864-1936-4.
- ↑ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (9 May 1942). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 26–.