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- 1 2 Hot 100 - Dean Martin On An Evening in Roma Chart History, Billboard.com. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
- 1 2 "The Cash Box Top 100", Cash Box , August 29, 1959. p. 4. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
- 1 2 "1050 CHUM – CHUM Charts". CHUM. Archived from the original on July 18, 2006. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
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- ↑ "The Records Disk Jockeys Played Most", Cash Box , August 29, 1959. p. 28. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
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