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- ↑ "Claudine Clark, "Party Lights" Chart Positions" . Retrieved March 6, 2019.
- ↑ "Claudine Clark, Party Lights" . Retrieved March 6, 2019.
- ↑ "Claudine Clark, "Party Lights" Single Release" . Retrieved March 6, 2019.
- ↑ "Top 100 Singles of 1962", Billboard , Section II, December 29, 1962. p. 82. Retrieved March 6, 2019.
- ↑ "Jackie Lee, "Party Lights" Single Release" . Retrieved March 6, 2019.
- ↑ "Dee Dee Sharp, All the Hits by Dee Dee Sharp" . Retrieved March 6, 2019.
- ↑ "The Palace Guard, "Saturdays Child" Single Release" . Retrieved March 6, 2019.
- ↑ "Sha Na Na, Sha Na Now" . Retrieved March 6, 2019.
- ↑ "Sonic's Rendezvous Band, Sonic's Rendezvous Band" . Retrieved March 6, 2019.
- ↑ "Skid Roper, Rock and Roll Part 3" . Retrieved March 6, 2019.
- ↑ "Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue Play the Songs of Scorpio Rising" . Retrieved March 6, 2019.
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