A Tear

Recording by Gene McDaniels.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USCA20702199
Release date of the album this recording appears on
1962-02-16
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x10eb731e490b992a903d186b1c971e787d95b305ce6124a828eb94874caecb96

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-31T08:26:41Z
Bitcoin block
960368
Canonical record hash
sha256:4c7f833b0949f629203165ce91ca9c6027856028a81db6ae06b0d55e0abd43af

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1962, before generative AI. ProofProfile's catalogue derives from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz source corpus, and ISRC is the stable recording-level bridge from that source corpus to the authoritative cc-db-prod track record.

CopyrightChains and Bitcoin OpenTimestamps make the exact committed record independently verifiable today. The cryptographic proof does not by itself establish authorship or ownership of the underlying recording.

Read the complete pre-generative-AI provenance and verification method.