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- ↑ "Exactly Like You by Erroll Garner". AllMusic. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
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- ↑ "My Kind of Blues - Sam Cooke | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
- ↑ Milano, Brett (8 February 2017). "The Masakowski Family, "N.O. Escape"". OffBeat Magazine. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
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