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- ↑ Billboard - 1966 May 28 BARRY SADLER OF THE GREEN BERETS SINGS "THE 'A' TEAM" RCA Victor LPM 3605 (M); LSP 3605 (S) Sadler mixes a potent blend of lyric ballads, with his singles hit, "The A Team," heading the list. Not all are "war" songs, with "Time" .."
- ↑ Richard D. Barnet and Larry L. Burriss. Controversies of the Music Industry. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001. ISBN 9780313310942 p. 54.
- ↑ Joel Whitburn. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. Billboard Publications, 1985. ISBN 9780823075188 p. 274.
- ↑ Marc Leepson. Ballad of the Green Beret: The Life and Wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and Pop Stardom to Murder and an Unsolved, Violent Death. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. ISBN 9780811765688 p. 91.
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