Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree

popular song by Sam H. Stept, Lew Brown, and Charles Tobias; made famous by Glenn Miller and by the Andrews Sisters during World War II
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q5291896
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Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree

Summary

Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (125 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree's composer is recorded as Sam H. Stept[4].
  • Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree's genre is traditional folk music[5].
  • Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree's based on is recorded as Long, Long Ago[6].
  • Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree was performed by Glenn Miller[7].
  • Among the performers on Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree was The Andrews Sisters[8].
  • Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree's language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree's country of origin is recorded as United States[10].
  • Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree was released on 1939[11].
  • Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree's lyricist is recorded as Lew Brown[12].
  • Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree's lyricist is recorded as Charles Tobias[13].
  • Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree's title is recorded as Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me)[14].
  • Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree's form of creative work is recorded as song[15].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: fd3b5144-1aab-3080-ac0c-40fab1e4e912[17]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include Glenn Miller[7] and The Andrews Sisters[8].

Publication

Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree was released on 1939[11]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[9]. Its genre is traditional folk music[5].

Why It Matters

Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (125 views/month).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . SecondHandSongs. Retrieved . secondhandsongs.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . SecondHandSongs. Retrieved . secondhandsongs.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . SecondHandSongs. Retrieved . secondhandsongs.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [16] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [17] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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