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- ↑ Comini 2008, p. 249.
- 1 2 Slonimsky 1998 , p. 99
- ↑ Paul Green, "Bacharach's Back On Key After 10-Year Slump", Los Angeles Times, 13 July 1986
- ↑ Matthews 2013, p. 4.
- ↑ Robinson-Greene 2016, p. 42.
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