Things Are Looking Up

original song written and composed by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q7784353
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Things Are Looking Up

Summary

Things Are Looking Up is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Things Are Looking Up's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Things Are Looking Up's composer is recorded as George Gershwin[4].
  • Among the performers on Things Are Looking Up was Golden State Pops Orchestra[5].
  • Among the performers on Things Are Looking Up was Fred Astaire[6].
  • Things Are Looking Up was performed by Ella Fitzgerald[7].
  • Things Are Looking Up was performed by Billie Holiday[8].
  • Things Are Looking Up was performed by Sarah Vaughan[9].
  • Things Are Looking Up is part of Crazy for You[10].
  • Things Are Looking Up is part of A Damsel in Distress[11].
  • Things Are Looking Up's language of work or name is recorded as English[12].
  • Things Are Looking Up was released on 1937[13].
  • Things Are Looking Up's lyricist is recorded as Ira Gershwin[14].
  • Things Are Looking Up's title is recorded as Things Are Looking Up[15].
  • Things Are Looking Up's form of creative work is recorded as song[16].

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[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 44285cbc-3f27-4fc3-9204-2b2674c3f6ec[18]

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Authorship and Creation

Performers include Golden State Pops Orchestra[5], Fred Astaire[6], Ella Fitzgerald[7], Billie Holiday[8], and Sarah Vaughan[9].

Publication

Things Are Looking Up was published on 1937[13]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[12]. Part of include Crazy for You[10], a dramatico-musical work[19] and A Damsel in Distress[11], a film[20], directed by George Stevens[21].

Why It Matters

Things Are Looking Up ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3 views/month).[2]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . 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] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [17] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [18] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_things-are-looking-up-q7784353_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Things Are Looking Up}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/things-are-looking-up-q7784353}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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