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What Is This Thing Called Love?

original show tune written and composed by Cole Porter; from the 1929 musical "Wake Up and Dream"
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What Is This Thing Called Love?

Summary

What Is This Thing Called Love? is a musical work/composition[1]. What Is This Thing Called Love? ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (109 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • What Is This Thing Called Love?'s instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • What Is This Thing Called Love?'s composer is recorded as Cole Porter[4].
  • What Is This Thing Called Love?'s genre is popular music[5].
  • What Is This Thing Called Love? was performed by The King Cole Trio[6].
  • What Is This Thing Called Love? was performed by Frank Sinatra[7].
  • What Is This Thing Called Love?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • What Is This Thing Called Love? was published on 1929[9].
  • What Is This Thing Called Love?'s lyricist is recorded as Cole Porter[10].
  • What Is This Thing Called Love?'s tonality is recorded as B-flat major[11].
  • What Is This Thing Called Love?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'What Is This Thing Called Love?'}[12].
  • What Is This Thing Called Love?'s has characteristic is recorded as show tune[13].
  • What Is This Thing Called Love?'s form of creative work is recorded as song[14].
  • What Is This Thing Called Love?'s music created for is recorded as Wake Up and Dream[15].

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[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 70eb376f-0fbb-324c-9dcb-d30ab24f9f3e[17]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include The King Cole Trio[6] and Frank Sinatra[7].

Publication

What Is This Thing Called Love? was published on 1929[9]. What Is This Thing Called Love?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[8]. Its genre is popular music[5].

Why It Matters

What Is This Thing Called Love? ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (109 views/month).[2] What Is This Thing Called Love? has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] What Is This Thing Called Love? is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Cole Porter Frank Sinatra

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → The King Cole Trio, Frank Sinatra
    Form of creative work → song
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