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Keep Singing! A Benefit Compilation for Compassion Over Killing

2008 benefit compilation album; various artists

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ6383079 ↗
Source-derived summary

Keep Singing! A Benefit Compilation for Compassion Over Killing is a benefit album by Exotic Fever Records supporting the non-profit animal rights advocacy group, Compassion Over Killing (now known as Animal Outlook). It compiles fifteen tracks from various (vegan) artists in promotion of the vegan diet. A vegan cookbook is also included with the physical copy of the CD in the liner notes and as a downloadable PDF file, which features favorite recipes from each band. The album was released on January 29, 2008 in CD and digital download format through Exotic Fever Records.

Editorial summary

“Keep Singing! A Benefit Compilation for Compassion Over Killing” enters the record as 2008 benefit compilation album; various artists. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Keep, Singing and Benefit can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008-01-29. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Keep, Singing and Benefit.
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“Keep Singing! A Benefit Compilation for Compassion Over Killing” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Keep, Singing and Benefit provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 May 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6383079. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Keep Singing! A Benefit Compilation for Compassion Over Killing” 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.