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Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!"

1946 song by Bobby Troup, popularized by the King Cole Trio
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Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!"

Summary

Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!" is a musical work/composition[1]. Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!" ranks in the top 2% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,105 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!"'s instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!"'s composer is recorded as Bobby Troup[4].
  • Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!"'s genre is rhythm and blues[5].
  • Among the performers on Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!" was The King Cole Trio[6].
  • Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!" was performed by Depeche Mode[7].
  • Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!"'s language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!" was published on April 22, 1946[9].
  • Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!"'s lyricist is recorded as Bobby Troup[10].
  • Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!"'s main subject is U.S. Route 66[11].
  • Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!"'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': '(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66'}[12].
  • Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!"'s different from is recorded as Route 66[13].
  • Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!"'s form of creative work is recorded as song[14].
  • Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!"'s form of creative work is recorded as twelve-bar blues[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]

  • Genre(s): blues, blues rock, garage rock, pop rock, r&b, rock, rock and roll[17]

  • Community tags: blues, blues rock, garage rock, list song, pop rock, r&b, rock, rock and roll[18]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 84f986f6-9145-3d62-80d5-5e729652ca52[19]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include The King Cole Trio[6] and Depeche Mode[7].

Publication

Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!" was released on April 22, 1946[9]. Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!"'s language of work or name is recorded as English[8]. Its genre is rhythm and blues[5].

Subject and Themes

Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!"'s main subject is U.S. Route 66[11].

Why It Matters

Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!" ranks in the top 2% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,105 views/month).[2] Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!" has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] Get Your Kicks on "Route 66!" is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

Depeche Mode U.S. Route 66

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . archive.org. Retrieved . archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . 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.
  3. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → The King Cole Trio, Depeche Mode
    Form of creative work → song, twelve-bar blues
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P1827]]: T0701273393, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P1827]]"
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