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- ↑ Billboard Singles, AllMusic
- 1 2 3 4 Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 2059. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
- ↑ Billboard, AllMusic
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