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Happy Jack

original song written and composed by Pete Townshend
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Happy Jack

Summary

Happy Jack is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (327 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Happy Jack's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Happy Jack's composer is recorded as Pete Townshend[4].
  • Happy Jack's genre is rock music[5].
  • Happy Jack was produced by Kit Lambert[6].
  • Happy Jack was performed by The Who[7].
  • Among the performers on Happy Jack was Southern Culture on the Skids[8].
  • Happy Jack's record label is recorded as Reaction[9].
  • Happy Jack is part of A Quick One[10].
  • Happy Jack's language of work or name is recorded as English[11].
  • Happy Jack was published on 1966[12].
  • Happy Jack's lyricist is recorded as Pete Townshend[13].
  • Happy Jack's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Happy Jack'}[14].
  • Happy Jack's different from is recorded as Happy Jack[15].
  • Happy Jack's form of creative work is recorded as song[16].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: fa36dcea-cdf1-4876-a362-420b10965b04[18]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include The Who[7] and Southern Culture on the Skids[8]. Happy Jack was produced by Kit Lambert[6].

Publication

Happy Jack was published on 1966[12]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[11]. Its genre is rock music[5]. It is part of A Quick One[10].

Why It Matters

Happy Jack ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (327 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19]

Related Entities

Pete Townshend The Who

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_happy-jack_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Happy Jack}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/happy-jack}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 25d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → The Who, Southern Culture on the Skids
    Part of → A Quick One
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P1827]]: T0101627706, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P1827]]"
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