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References
- ↑ Price, Kathryn M. (2018). Walt Disney's Melody Makers: A Biography of the Sherman Brothers. Theme Park Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-1683901143.
- Sherman, Robert B. Walt's Time: from before to beyond . Santa Clarita, CA: Camphor Tree Publishers, 1998.
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