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Why Don't You Do Right?

song written and composed by Kansas Joe McCoy; lyrical adaptation of the 1936 song "Weed Smoker's Dream"
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Why Don't You Do Right?

Summary

Why Don't You Do Right? is a musical work/composition[1]. Why Don't You Do Right? ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (317 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Why Don't You Do Right?'s instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Why Don't You Do Right?'s composer is recorded as Kansas Joe McCoy[4].
  • Why Don't You Do Right?'s genre is blues[5].
  • Among the performers on Why Don't You Do Right? was Lil Green[6].
  • Among the performers on Why Don't You Do Right? was Benny Goodman and His Orchestra[7].
  • Why Don't You Do Right? was performed by Alan Silvestri[8].
  • Why Don't You Do Right?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • Why Don't You Do Right? was published on 1941[10].
  • Why Don't You Do Right?'s lyricist is recorded as Kansas Joe McCoy[11].
  • Why Don't You Do Right?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "Why Don't You Do Right?"}[12].
  • Why Don't You Do Right?'s has characteristic is recorded as lyrical adaptation[13].
  • Why Don't You Do Right?'s has melody is recorded as Weed Smoker's Dream[14].
  • Why Don't You Do Right?'s form of creative work is recorded as song[15].

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: da551c15-032b-3c8a-bf94-f6259ffc04b4[17]

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Authorship and Creation

Performers include Lil Green[6], Benny Goodman and His Orchestra[7], and Alan Silvestri[8].

Publication

Why Don't You Do Right? was published on 1941[10]. Why Don't You Do Right?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[9]. Its genre is blues[5].

Why It Matters

Why Don't You Do Right? ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (317 views/month).[2] Why Don't You Do Right? has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] Why Don't You Do Right? is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Alan Silvestri

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] ↑ . SecondHandSongs. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . 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. 4w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → Lil Green, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Alan Silvestri
    Form of creative work → song
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