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- ↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 6632." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. February 3, 1990. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
- ↑ "Keith Whitley Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
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- ↑ "Best of 1990: Country Songs". Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. 1990. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
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