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- ↑ "Country Music Discographies: Wanda Jackson, Part One". Praguefrank's Country Music Discographies. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
- ↑ "Wanda Jackson Biography". The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . Retrieved December 17, 2013.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944–2006, Second edition. Record Research.
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