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Shave and a Haircut

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Shave and a Haircut
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Shave and a Haircut

Summary

Shave and a Haircut is a riff[1]. It draws 1,312 Wikipedia views per month (riff category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • Shave and a Haircut's instance of is recorded as riff[3].
  • Shave and a Haircut's instance of is recorded as call and response[4].
  • Shave and a Haircut's instance of is recorded as motif[5].
  • Shave and a Haircut's genre is musical comedy[6].
  • Shave and a Haircut is part of popular music[7].
  • Shave and a Haircut's Commons category is recorded as Shave and a Haircut[8].
  • Shave and a Haircut's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Shave and a haircut'}[9].
  • Shave and a Haircut's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Shave and a haircut: two bits'}[10].
  • Shave and a Haircut's source of material is recorded as Central Africa[11].

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

  • Genre(s): comedy[12]

  • Community tags: comedy, meme, riff[13]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 50f70ad3-af4b-4dc4-b74c-5742b637ee6b[14]

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include riff[3], call and response[4], and motif[5].

Use and Application

Shave and a Haircut is part of popular music[7].

Why It Matters

Shave and a Haircut draws 1,312 Wikipedia views per month (riff category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . 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.

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

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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