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- ↑ "Go-Set Australian charts - 2 April 1969". www.poparchives.com.au.
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- ↑ Gerome, John (9 July 2006). "Bluegrass artists pick on classic rock with tribute albums". Napa Valley Register. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
"Most people today think of 'Fox on the Run' as a bluegrass standard, but it actually started as a British rock song," Dan Hayes, executive director of the International Bluegrass Music Association, says of the 1960s hit by Manfred Mann.
- ↑ "Golden Kids – Golden Kids – Supraphonline.cz".
- ↑ "Country Playlist" (PDF). RPM. December 25, 1976.
- ↑ Tony Hazzard and Richard Barnes, "Fox on the Run" single release Retrieved 24 June 2015
