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- ↑ Malone, Bill, "Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection" ((booklet included with Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection 4-disc set). Smithsonian Institution, 1990).
- ↑ Jones, George; Carter, Tom (1996). I Lived to Tell it All. Villard. p. 89. ISBN 978-0679438694.
- ↑ Allen, Bob (1996). George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend. St Martin's Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-0312956981.