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- ↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 6570." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. September 25, 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
- ↑ "Lionel Cartwright Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
- ↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1989". RPM . December 23, 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
- ↑ "Best of 1989: Country Songs". Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
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