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Things Ain't What They Used to Be

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Things Ain't What They Used to Be

Summary

Things Ain't What They Used to Be is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (57 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Things Ain't What They Used to Be's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Things Ain't What They Used to Be's composer is recorded as Mercer Ellington[4].
  • Things Ain't What They Used to Be's language of work or name is recorded as English[5].
  • Things Ain't What They Used to Be was released on 1942[6].
  • Things Ain't What They Used to Be's tonality is recorded as D-flat major[7].
  • Things Ain't What They Used to Be's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "Things Ain't What They Used to Be"}[8].
  • Things Ain't What They Used to Be's form of creative work is recorded as song[9].

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[10]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 57e43b00-0b9b-3ad3-9b2d-d072ec7b39ad[11]

Body

Publication

Things Ain't What They Used to Be was published on 1942[6]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[5].

Why It Matters

Things Ain't What They Used to Be ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (57 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12]

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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MLA “Things Ain't What They Used to Be.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/things-ain-t-what-they-used-to-be.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_things-ain-t-what-they-used-to-be_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Things Ain't What They Used to Be}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/things-ain-t-what-they-used-to-be}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 8w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Publication date → +1942-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Language of work or name → English
    Aliases → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P1827]]: T9003054839, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P1827]]"
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