The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: "His Hands Were Quick, His Fingers Were Strong"

Recording by Stephen Sondheim.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USBC10500368
Release date of the album this recording appears on
1979
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0xfde84011209e5739c1cddc1f101224509edc00c376cc816b7aec5246cab53a1d
Copyright registration time
2026-06-09T17:57:42+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-06-13T13:32:09Z
Bitcoin block
953520
Canonical record hash
sha256:8d814aabdf9f4e21bbac1abc50e9457906dd519ae6f5be3ce28bef634efbe946

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1979, 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.