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- ↑ "Leon Cole Obituary".
- 1 2 "CBC Radio host returns to record broadcast". Kingston Whig-Standard , February 7, 1992.
- 1 2 "Popular RSVP host Leon Cole stepping away from mike". Montreal Gazette , April 5, 1994.
- ↑ "RSVP's Leon Cole to explain music at concert series". Winnipeg Free Press , September 24, 1987.
- ↑ "Holly Cole's magnificent obsession; Vocalist's full-throated sound getting ample airplay across the country". Edmonton Journal , November 10, 1990.
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