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- ↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 2994." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. June 10, 1996. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
- ↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1996". RPM . December 16, 1996. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
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