Jake Austen:TV-a-go-go: rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol. Chicago Review Press, Chicago 2005, ISBN 1-55652-572-9, S.100 (englisch, google.com[abgerufen am 17.November 2013]).
Jake Austen:Soul Train Local.The show that put black music on TVs across America got its start in Chicago – and even after it moved to LA, Chicago kept its own version running daily for nearly a decade.chicagoreader.com,2.Oktober 2008,abgerufen am 17.August 2015(englisch).