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Hit the Road Jack

original song written, composed, and performed by Percy Mayfield
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Summary

Hit the Road Jack is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of musical work composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,341 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Composer: Percy Mayfield[3]
  • Genre: popular music[4]
  • Performer: Percy Mayfield[5], Ray Charles[6], The Stampeders[7]
  • Language of work or name: English[8]
  • Publication date: 1960[9]
  • Lyricist: Percy Mayfield[10]
  • Tonality: A-flat minor[11]
  • Title: Hit the Road Jack[12]
  • Form of creative work: song[13]

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[14]

  • Genre(s): r&b[15]

  • Community tags: r&b[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 09f547a1-bffe-37ef-8909-327ff77c198a[17]

Why It Matters

Hit the Road Jack has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Ray Charles

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . SecondHandSongs. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Hit the Road Jack. Retrieved October 11, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/hit-the-road-jack
MLA “Hit the Road Jack.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 11 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/hit-the-road-jack.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_hit-the-road-jack_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Hit the Road Jack}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/hit-the-road-jack}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-11}}
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 15d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['az', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'hy', 'id', '
    Gnd id → 300654871
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 23w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → Percy Mayfield, Ray Charles, The Stampeders
    Form of creative work → song
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Iswc: T0702403175, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P1827]]"
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