Joe Loss biography, in which Adelaide Hall is mentioned as being a featured vocalist in his band: "The new-featured vocalist in Joe Loss's broadcasts is one of America's veterans of jazz singing, her career dating back to the first big Negro revue, Shuffle Along, produced on Broadway in 1921."
"ASCAP 100": Adelaide Hall's recording of "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby" is chosen to represent 1928 in the ASCAP 100 years timeline. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
Judith Miller, Art Deco, Dorling Kindersley, 2005, ISBN1405307544: lithograph by Paul Colin featuring Adelaide Hall and used as a poster to advertise Blackbirds at the Moulin Rouge, p. 215. Retrieved 14 September 1014.
Bill Robinson and Adelaide Hall Palace Theatre performance review printed in Billboard magazine, 23 August 1930, and reproduced in Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows by Henry T. Sampson, chapter 5, p. 524. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
Steven Suskin, "Cotton Club Parade, 1934", in Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers, Oxford University Press, 2010, p. 147. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
Jet, 15 May 1952, p. 66. Article about Adelaide Hall (includes a photograph) mentioning her Calypso Club in London and how she taught Princess Elizabeth to dance the Charleston.
PROGRAMME FOR THE FORCES HOME SERVICE. "PIccadixie" (Variety) 12.00 midnight radio show. General Listening Barometer, Week 28, Sunday, 6 July 1943. Subject to the limitations of sampling, the figures below show the percentage of the whole adult population of Great Britain who listened to each item.
Angie Macdonald, "Keep Smiling Through", Dulwich Online, 11 April 2008. Review of the "Keep Smiling Through" exhibition that features recollections of Adelaide Hall entertaining the troops during WWII.
Barry Kowal, "1940 UK Charts", Weekly Singles Chart: May 20, 1940, & May 27, 1940, Adelaide Hall at No. 30 with "Careless". Hits of All Decades 1940, 4 February 2010.
Carolyn Hope. "1940 UK". Hits of All Decades – Pop rock n roll Music Chart Hits.
Carolyn Hope. "1941 UK". Hits of All Decades –Pop rock n roll Music Chart Hits.
Hickman, Charles (16 March 1953). "Love from Judy" (Drama, Musical). Jeannie Carson, Adelaide Hall, Linda Gray. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Retrieved 1 February 2021.
Howard Rye, "Southern Syncopated Orchestra: The Roster", Black Music Research Journal, Volume 30, Number 1, Spring 2010. Reference to Smalls Paradise revue under "Gee, Lottie (Charlotte M.)".
Stars In Your Eyes (TV series, UK) (1946-1950):Made for TV series (under 30 minutes). An episode from the series in which Miss Hall appears is housed in a UK archive. In segment (14.07.47) Adelaide Hall, vocal. In segment (27.03.48) Adelaide Hall, vocal. (Personnel On Camera). Motion Picture (Form). Library of Congress: Stars In Your Eyes
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Library of Congress data for Omnibus series, episode "The Cotton Club comes to the Ritz". Retrieved 6 September 2014.
A World Is Turning – Historian and News Curator, Luke McKernan, discusses his role in rediscovering 7-reels of the previously thought to be lost 1948 UK film documentary A World Is Turning.
William N. Jones, "Twelve Sing Way Back to America", The Afro American, 2 December 1939, p. 6: "Bricktop has been back in America several weeks while Adelaide Hall has been singing for the soldiers. Miss Hall, whose popularity with the British 'Tommy's' ranks with that of Gracie Fields, may remain in England as Miss Fields has recently suffered a breakdown." Retrieved 14 October 2015.
"Devotees – Honours and Tributes" (researched and compiled by Stephen Bourne), Devotional. Adelaide Hall enters Guinness Book of World Records as the World's most enduring recording artiste.
"Harlem in Mayfair", BBC TV listings, Radio Times, Saturday, 25 February 1939.
BBC TV listings, Radio Times, Saturday, 20 May 1939, p. 15 ("Adelaide Hall in 'Dark Sophistication' – A coloured cabaret from the Old Florida Club With Marco Hlubi and his Tom Toms, Esta and Louise, Charles Wood, and Felix Sowande with his Negro Choir and Orchestra").
BBC TV listings, Radio Times, 18 August 1939, p. 17 ("Harry S. Pepper presents 'THE KENTUCKY MINSTRELS'...").
The Variety Club of Great Britain held the Anglo-American Gala to help raise funds for the National Playing Fields Association for which the Duke Of Edinburgh was president: https://www.royal.uk/sport
12 June 1974: Photograph of Adelaide Hall attending the Duke Ellington Memorial Concert at St Martin-in-the-field, London, accompanied by Cleo Laine. Shutterstock.
Exhibitors Herald, August 6, 1927, page 47 – Chicago, (Granada Theatre) week-ending 31 July 1927 (review of Hall's performance at the Granada Theatre, Chicago).
Russ J. Graham, "The edit that rewrote history – What really did happen that day in 1939, when the BBC Television Service closed down 'for the duration of the conflict'?" Transdiffusion Broadcasting System, 31 October 2005.
A poster advertising Piccadixie with the performers: Adelaide Hall (singer), Oliver Wakefield (comedian), George Elrick (musician) appearing at the New Empress Theatre, Brixton, London, 8 December 1941, can be found at the V&A in their collection.
