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- ↑ "Guy Marks - Loving You Has Made Me Bananas / Forgive Me My Love - ABC - UK - ABC 4211". 45cat.com. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
- ↑ "RPM Top 100 Singles - May 18, 1968" (PDF).
- ↑ Steven Otfinoski (2000), The Golden Age of Novelty Songs, Billboard Books, ISBN 978-0823076949
- ↑ Paul Simpson (2003), The Rough Guide to Cult Pop, Rough Guides, p. 23, ISBN 978-1843532293
