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- ↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 3338." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. September 29, 1997. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1997". RPM . December 15, 1997. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
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