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- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. pp. 387–88.
- ↑ "Search results for "Ain't Love a Good Thing"". RPM. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2011.