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Buck Wild (song)

1989 song performed by Experience Unlimited

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ28452777 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Buck Wild" is a 1989 single released by the Washington, D.C.–based go-go band Experience Unlimited. The song was released as the first single from their 1989 album Livin' Large. The single peaked at #7 on Billboard's "Hot R&B/Hip-Hop songs" chart, on May 13, 1989.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Buck Wild (song)” is 1989 song performed by Experience Unlimited. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Buck, Wild and song, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989. For this dossier, Buck, Wild and song is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1989 song performed by Experience Unlimited” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 30, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q28452777. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Identifying works and editions
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  • Finding collection records
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Buck Wild (song)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Buck Wild (song) primary sources, Buck Wild (song) archive and Buck research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Buck Wild (song)”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Buck Wild (song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.