Up on the House Top

1864 Christmas song by Benjamin Hanby
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q686572
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Up on the House Top

Summary

Up on the House Top is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (73 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Up on the House Top's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Up on the House Top's composer is recorded as Benjamin Hanby[4].
  • Up on the House Top's genre is Christmas carol[5].
  • Among the performers on Up on the House Top was Gene Autry[6].
  • Up on the House Top was performed by Kimberley Locke[7].
  • Up on the House Top's Commons category is recorded as Up on the Housetop[8].
  • Up on the House Top's language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • Up on the House Top was published on 1864[10].
  • Up on the House Top was released on October 1866[11].
  • Up on the House Top's characters is recorded as Santa Claus[12].
  • Up on the House Top's characters is recorded as Santa Claus' reindeer[13].
  • Up on the House Top's lyricist is recorded as Benjamin Hanby[14].
  • Up on the House Top's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Up on the House Top'}[15].
  • Up on the House Top's has characteristic is recorded as Christmas-themed song[16].
  • Up on the House Top's copyright status is recorded as public domain[17].
  • Up on the House Top's copyright status is recorded as public domain[18].
  • Up on the House Top's form of creative work is recorded as song[19].
  • Up on the House Top's set during recurring event is recorded as Christmas and holiday season[20].

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[21]

  • MusicBrainz ID: d2663b99-9f1f-49a9-92c0-2d67577dee18[22]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include Gene Autry[6] and Kimberley Locke[7].

Publication

Publication dates include 1864[10] and October 1866[11]. Up on the House Top's language of work or name is recorded as English[9]. Its genre is Christmas carol[5].

Why It Matters

Up on the House Top ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (73 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

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] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [21] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [22] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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