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- ↑ Grateful Dead Lyric and Song Finder: One More Saturday Night
- ↑ The Grateful Dead: "One More Saturday Night" at Discogs. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
- ↑ "Keller Williams album for REX charity" Archived June 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine . news.jamradio.org, May 7, 2008. Retrieved May 15, 2008.
