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]).
chicagoreader.com
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).