It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

Recording by Al Kooper.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USSM19917716
Release date of the album this recording appears on
1968-04-08
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0xfe48fa8e01d33b8120febd6622409f10de570536443556c484010e5f3a809ebc
Copyright registration time
2026-06-09T05:29:35+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-08T03:20:19Z
Bitcoin block
957118
Canonical record hash
sha256:894123382b9a14416917838d6b8f5b12db306ebe1fa63fd791f15e34402d3b3e

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1968, 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.