If I Only Had the Words (To Tell You)

Recording by Billy Joel.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USSM17300510
Release date of the album this recording appears on
1973-11-07
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x92867a1fb65f9360e5527e5a7aa557d618df22acc0dbaab092bc13d96b7dd9bd
Copyright registration time
2026-06-06T22:08:36+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-06-13T12:53:06Z
Bitcoin block
953515
Canonical record hash
sha256:904ee7717a111631c7d8f63330e16fb38d4d783ebde1c9a4553b44787869e8e4

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1973, 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.