I'll Be Seeing You

1938 song with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q720569
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I'll Be Seeing You

Summary

I'll Be Seeing You is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,282 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • I'll Be Seeing You's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • I'll Be Seeing You's composer is recorded as Sammy Fain[4].
  • Among the performers on I'll Be Seeing You was Dick Todd[5].
  • Among the performers on I'll Be Seeing You was Billie Holiday and her Orchestra[6].
  • Among the performers on I'll Be Seeing You was Bing Crosby[7].
  • Among the performers on I'll Be Seeing You was Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra[8].
  • Among the performers on I'll Be Seeing You was Frank Sinatra[9].
  • Among the performers on I'll Be Seeing You was Frank Sinatra[10].
  • Among the performers on I'll Be Seeing You was The Poni-Tails[11].
  • I'll Be Seeing You was performed by Eric Clapton[12].
  • Among the performers on I'll Be Seeing You was Linda Ronstadt[13].
  • Among the performers on I'll Be Seeing You was Willie Nelson[14].
  • I'll Be Seeing You was performed by Rickie Lee Jones[15].
  • Among the performers on I'll Be Seeing You was Rod Stewart[16].
  • I'll Be Seeing You was performed by Etta James[17].
  • I'll Be Seeing You was performed by Liza Minnelli[18].
  • I'll Be Seeing You was performed by Mel Tormé[19].
  • Among the performers on I'll Be Seeing You was Rosemary Clooney[20].
  • Among the performers on I'll Be Seeing You was Billie Holiday[21].
  • I'll Be Seeing You's language of work or name is recorded as English[22].
  • I'll Be Seeing You was published on 1938[23].
  • I'll Be Seeing You's lyricist is recorded as Irving Kahal[24].
  • I'll Be Seeing You's main subject is nostalgia[25].
  • I'll Be Seeing You's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "I'll Be Seeing You"}[26].
  • I'll Be Seeing You's has characteristic is recorded as jazz standard[27].

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[28]

  • Genre(s): blues, folk, jazz, pop[29]

  • Community tags: blues, folk, jazz, pop, vocal[30]

  • MusicBrainz ID: a69e713c-5aac-331c-8669-934714f45fd1[31]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include Dick Todd[5], Billie Holiday and her Orchestra[6], Bing Crosby[7], Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra[8], Frank Sinatra[9], and The Poni-Tails[11].

Publication

I'll Be Seeing You was published on 1938[23]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[22].

Subject and Themes

I'll Be Seeing You's main subject is nostalgia[25].

Cultural Impact

Things named for I'll Be Seeing You include it[32], a film[33], directed by William Dieterle[34].

Why It Matters

I'll Be Seeing You ranks in the top 3% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,282 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35]

Entities named for it include it[32], a film[33], directed by William Dieterle[34].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . SecondHandSongs. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . memory-alpha.fandom.com. Retrieved . memory-alpha.fandom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [28] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [30] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [31] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [32] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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    Performer Dick Todd, Billie Holiday and her Orchestra, Bing Crosby +14
    Form of creative work song
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