A Simple Thing Like Cry

Recording identifiers

ISRC

USUM70837321

Release date of the album this recording appears on

1971-07-06

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0x5c0def9821bfda996c13bca0260fa9711e7c4da68a3bbb1f027a0eb2129dfed1

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-07-30T03:35:13Z

Bitcoin block

960203

Canonical record hash

sha256:da76b271e3c2c412dfe576608473712c82982ef219b3788ac86df2f50eccfedc

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What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1971, 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.