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- ↑ Take Care Of Your Homework / Hold On This Time at discogs.com
- 1 2 Take Care Of Your Homework / Hold On This Time at 45cat.com
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 568.
- ↑ "RPM Top 100 Singles - March 10, 1969" (PDF).
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