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(en) Don Tyler, Hit songs, 1900-1955: American popular music of the pre-rock era, McFarland, (ISBN978-0-7864-2946-2, lire en ligne), p. 156
(en) Robert A. Schanke, Staging desire: queer readings of American theater history, University of Michigan Press, (ISBN978-0-472-06749-7, lire en ligne), p. 156