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- ↑ Clint Miller at Rockabilly.nl
- ↑ Joel Whitburn, Top Pop Singles. 12th edition, 2009, p. 660.
- ↑ House Joint Resolution no.245, 30 January 2006
- ↑ "GOP's Miller endorses Democrat McAuliffe". 28 July 2013.
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