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Tom Dooley

North Carolina folk song
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Tom Dooley

Summary

Tom Dooley is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (792 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Tom Dooley's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Tom Dooley's genre is American folk music[4].
  • Among the performers on Tom Dooley was The Kingston Trio[5].
  • Tom Dooley's language of work or name is recorded as English[6].
  • Tom Dooley was released on November 19, 1958[7].
  • Tom Dooley's has characteristic is recorded as traditional folk song[8].
  • Tom Dooley's form of creative work is recorded as song[9].

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[10]

  • Genre(s): filk[11]

  • Community tags: filk[12]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 9e0a007e-6831-4cf6-8073-0e9127089224[13]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on Tom Dooley was The Kingston Trio[5].

Publication

Tom Dooley was released on November 19, 1958[7]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[6]. Its genre is American folk music[4].

Why It Matters

Tom Dooley ranks in the top 1% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (792 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Tom Dooley. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/tom-dooley
MLA “Tom Dooley.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/tom-dooley.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_tom-dooley_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Tom Dooley}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/tom-dooley}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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