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- ↑ This Time I'm Swingin' at Discogs (list of releases)
- ↑ " You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You " at Discogs (list of releases)
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- ↑ "CHUM Hit Parade - Week of January 25, 1965". CHUM. Archived from the original on November 7, 2006. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
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