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- 1 2 "CANOE -- JAM! Music - Pop Encyclopedia - Warpig". JAM!. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ↑ "New Music", Winnipeg Free Press, September 15, 1973 - Page 99. by Andy Mellon.
- ↑ "Top Singles". RPM Magazine, Volume 19, No. 23. Jul 21, 1973
- ↑ "Obituary Thomas Snitch". TJ. Telegraph-Journal. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- ↑ Eduardo Rivadavia. "Warpig Warpig". AllMusic . Retrieved 7 January 2010.
- ↑ "Warpig Warpig". Exclaim!, Sean Palmerston October 1, 2006
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