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How Long Has This Been Going On?

original show tune by George & Ira Gershwin; from the 1928 musical "Funny Face"
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How Long Has This Been Going On?

Summary

How Long Has This Been Going On? is a musical work/composition[1]. How Long Has This Been Going On? ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (95 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • How Long Has This Been Going On?'s instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On?'s composer is recorded as George Gershwin[4].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On?'s genre is popular music[5].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On? was performed by Bobbe Arnst[6].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On? was performed by Lena Horne[7].
  • Among the performers on How Long Has This Been Going On? was Ella Fitzgerald[8].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On? was performed by Mel Tormé[9].
  • Among the performers on How Long Has This Been Going On? was Van Morrison[10].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On? was performed by Bing Crosby[11].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On? was performed by Lou Adler[12].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[13].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On? was published on 1927[14].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On?'s lyricist is recorded as Ira Gershwin[15].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On?'s described at URL is recorded as http://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/h/how_long_has_this_been%20going_on.html[16].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On?'s described by source is recorded as JazzStandards.com[17].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On?'s title is recorded as How Long Has This Been Going On?[18].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On?'s has characteristic is recorded as show tune[19].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On?'s different from is recorded as How Long Has This Been Going On[20].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On?'s form of creative work is recorded as song[21].
  • How Long Has This Been Going On?'s music created for is recorded as Funny Face[22].

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[23]

  • Genre(s): avant-garde jazz, jazz[24]

  • Community tags: avant-garde jazz, jazz[25]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 4bf20a2a-53fd-3ae0-9a2d-749128be0ad2[26]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include Bobbe Arnst[6], Lena Horne[7], Ella Fitzgerald[8], Mel Tormé[9], Van Morrison[10], and Bing Crosby[11].

Publication

How Long Has This Been Going On? was released on 1927[14]. How Long Has This Been Going On?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[13]. Its genre is popular music[5].

Why It Matters

How Long Has This Been Going On? ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (95 views/month).[2]

Related Entities

George Gershwin Ira Gershwin

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [26] ↑ . 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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