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References
- ↑ Ted Snyder Dies; Wrote Hit Songs, The New York Times , July 21, 1965
- ↑ Irving Berlin Archived 2023-03-11 at the Wayback Machine , Billboard Magazine , col 1, pg. 76, Oct. 7, 1950
- ↑ David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song, New edition (June 25, 2003)
- ↑ Harvey G. Cohen, Duke Ellington's America, University of Chicago Press (2010)
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