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All I Could Do Was Cry

1960 song performed by Etta James
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All I Could Do Was Cry

Summary

All I Could Do Was Cry is a musical work/composition[1].

Key Facts

  • All I Could Do Was Cry's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[2].
  • All I Could Do Was Cry's genre is doo-wop[3].
  • All I Could Do Was Cry was performed by Etta James[4].
  • All I Could Do Was Cry's record label is recorded as Chess Records[5].
  • All I Could Do Was Cry was released on 1960[6].
  • All I Could Do Was Cry's form of creative work is recorded as song[7].

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[8]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 802c715a-90f7-3753-a89d-77f5671951e9[9]

Body

Authorship and Creation

All I Could Do Was Cry was performed by Etta James[4].

Publication

All I Could Do Was Cry was released on 1960[6]. Its genre is doo-wop[3].

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [8] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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MLA “All I Could Do Was Cry.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/all-i-could-do-was-cry.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_all-i-could-do-was-cry_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{All I Could Do Was Cry}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/all-i-could-do-was-cry}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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