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- ↑ "Burl Ives, "Funny Way of Laughin'" Chart Positions" . Retrieved March 3, 2019.
- ↑ "Burl Ives, It's Just My Funny Way of Laughin" . Retrieved March 3, 2019.
- ↑ "Top 100 Singles of 1962", Billboard , Section II, December 29, 1962. p. 82. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
- ↑ "Hank Cochran, Hits from the Heart" . Retrieved March 3, 2019.
- ↑ "Jeannie Seely, "These Memories" Single Release" . Retrieved March 3, 2019.
- ↑ "Jim Ed Brown, Country's Best on Record" . Retrieved March 3, 2019.
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