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- ↑ ""Hushabye" Spotlight on The Mystics' Al Contrera". NewJerseyStage.com. 12 January 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ↑ "The Mystics Awards". AllMusic . Retrieved 2013-01-13.
- ↑ "The Mystics". Archived from the original on 2013-03-05. Retrieved 2013-01-13.
- ↑ Black, Frank (2014-12-03). "FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: The Beach Boys 1964: Keep an Eye on Summer - new copyright extension release". FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
- ↑ "RPM Top 100 Singles - June 30, 1969" (PDF).
