The Ballad of the Sad Young Men

Recording by Ernie Watts.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USX9P0952770
Release date of the album this recording appears on
2009-12-15
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0xc218d495c50c92fcebc9d8b04e37b4b74a4fcd0ccb6c5c09f7e3d9db4ee4cc36
Copyright registration time
2026-07-30T08:44:14+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-30T09:37:10Z
Bitcoin block
960236
Canonical record hash
sha256:9ce7e5c93540cfb5f8529c5929f1df8d917c25f0b276ec1ea414070035b814cf

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 2009, 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.