Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)

Recording by Merle Haggard.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USSM18100776
Release date of the album this recording appears on
2014-03-21
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x858212eb35f9021cba443ee27afb26c7bbb6269c180b117801adc2c3329665ad
Copyright registration time
2026-07-07T06:12:55+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-08T03:20:19Z
Bitcoin block
957118
Canonical record hash
sha256:1feb966eaae49f5f9b816b8ef80ab3e49306cf6d4408a5572a99e161576da2bf

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 2014, 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.