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Give Me Flowers While I'm Living

original song written and composed by Louise Certain, Elvin Bigger, and Gladys Stacey; first recorded by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs in 1957
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q17445212
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Give Me Flowers While I'm Living

Summary

Give Me Flowers While I'm Living is a musical work/composition[1].

Key Facts

  • Give Me Flowers While I'm Living's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[2].
  • Give Me Flowers While I'm Living's composer is recorded as Elvin Bigger[3].
  • Give Me Flowers While I'm Living's composer is recorded as Lester Flatt[4].
  • Give Me Flowers While I'm Living's composer is recorded as Earl Scruggs[5].
  • Among the performers on Give Me Flowers While I'm Living was Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys[6].
  • Give Me Flowers While I'm Living's language of work or name is recorded as English[7].
  • Give Me Flowers While I'm Living was released on January 1, 1957[8].
  • Give Me Flowers While I'm Living's lyricist is recorded as Elvin Bigger[9].
  • Give Me Flowers While I'm Living's lyricist is recorded as Lester Flatt[10].
  • Give Me Flowers While I'm Living's lyricist is recorded as Earl Scruggs[11].
  • Give Me Flowers While I'm Living's title is recorded as Give Me Flowers While I'm Living[12].
  • Give Me Flowers While I'm Living's first line is recorded as In this world today while we are living, some folks say the worst of us they can.[13].
  • Give Me Flowers While I'm Living's derivative work is recorded as Liljor[14].
  • Give Me Flowers While I'm Living's form of creative work is recorded as song[15].

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 5b411b5f-bfcd-4a12-8e14-ac99e67414bc[17]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Give Me Flowers While I'm Living was performed by Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys[6].

Publication

Give Me Flowers While I'm Living was released on January 1, 1957[8]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[7].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . BMI Repertoire. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . BMI Repertoire. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . BMI Repertoire. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . BMI Repertoire. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . BMI Repertoire. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . BMI Repertoire. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [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.

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