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Why Can't You Behave?

original song written and composed by Cole Porter; from the 1948 musical "Kiss Me, Kate"
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Why Can't You Behave?

Summary

Why Can't You Behave? is a musical work/composition[1]. Why Can't You Behave? ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (29 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Why Can't You Behave?'s instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Why Can't You Behave?'s composer is recorded as Cole Porter[4].
  • Why Can't You Behave?'s genre is popular music[5].
  • Why Can't You Behave? was performed by Lisa Kirk[6].
  • Why Can't You Behave?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[7].
  • Why Can't You Behave? was released on 1948[8].
  • Why Can't You Behave?'s lyricist is recorded as Cole Porter[9].
  • Why Can't You Behave?'s title is recorded as Why Can't You Behave?[10].
  • Why Can't You Behave?'s has characteristic is recorded as show tune[11].
  • Why Can't You Behave?'s form of creative work is recorded as song[12].
  • Why Can't You Behave?'s music created for is recorded as Kiss Me, Kate[13].

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[14]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 328b2a66-cc1b-4f63-857c-0d234648f775[15]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on Why Can't You Behave? was Lisa Kirk[6].

Publication

Why Can't You Behave? was released on 1948[8]. Why Can't You Behave?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[7]. Its genre is popular music[5].

Why It Matters

Why Can't You Behave? ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (29 views/month).[2]

Related Entities

Cole Porter

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] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

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

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