The Way It Was In '51

Recording by Merle Haggard & The Strangers.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USCN17500061
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x7daafffaae79dab882a96d7121d65e12e1a16c21d58ac3caeaa3f6957537ba45
Copyright registration time
2026-06-23T16:00:15+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-02T03:55:08Z
Bitcoin block
956304
Canonical record hash
sha256:e84767b4d175bcc4c6b8ea313604ed930456a2e4026202f49520bda6cc458069

What this proof establishes

This recording belongs to ProofProfile's historical evidence base derived from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz corpus. 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.