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The Tennessee Three

American country trio; backing band for Johnny Cash
Organization musical_group Q1466075
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The Tennessee Three

Summary

The Tennessee Three is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (657 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Tennessee Three's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • The Tennessee Three's genre is country music[4].
  • The Tennessee Three's genre is rock and roll[5].
  • The Tennessee Three's genre is rockabilly[6].
  • The Tennessee Three's genre is blues[7].
  • The Tennessee Three's record label is recorded as Columbia Records[8].
  • The Tennessee Three is used for backing band[9].
  • The Tennessee Three's country of origin is recorded as United States[10].
  • The Tennessee Three comprises Luther Perkins[11].
  • The Tennessee Three comprises Marshall Grant[12].
  • The Tennessee Three comprises W. S. Holland[13].
  • 1960 marks the founding of The Tennessee Three[14].
  • The Tennessee Three was dissolved in March 1980[15].
  • The Tennessee Three's replaces is recorded as The Tennessee Two[16].
  • The Tennessee Three's replaced by is recorded as The Great Eighties Eight[17].
  • The Tennessee Three's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Tennessee Three'}[18].
  • The Tennessee Three's start of work period is recorded as 1960[19].

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

  • Type: Group[20]

  • Began / founded: 1955[21]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2012[22]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 5292cbd7-0f5f-461a-adbd-56ba44b98269[23]

Body

Founding

1960 marks the founding of The Tennessee Three[14].

Identity

The Tennessee Three's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'it'}[18].

Dissolution

The Tennessee Three was dissolved in March 1980[15].

Why It Matters

The Tennessee Three ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (657 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24]

Related Entities

Columbia Records United States

References

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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] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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