It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry

Recording by Merl Saunders.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USC4R1201184
Release date of the album this recording appears on
2012-01-01
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x64dcd6802ba2028cf148115bfbe366de1e42192cc8141f0a2c52f069b108cbaf
Copyright registration time
2026-06-22T16:05:15+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-02T03:55:08Z
Bitcoin block
956304
Canonical record hash
sha256:5b1d36c528becdd9c859eea3fa7ccb3cf14361a9aa3003e7cd77928e19d605ca

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 2012, 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.