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More than Yesterday (More Country Songs & City Hits)

1965 studio album by Slim Whitman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ116734937 ↗
Source-derived summary

More than Yesterday (More Country Songs & City Hits) is a studio album by Slim Whitman, released in 1965 on Imperial Records.

It entered the Billboard country chart for one week in March 1966.

Track listing

The album was issued in the United States and Canada by Imperial Records as a 12-inch long-playing record, catalog numbers LP-9303 (mono) and LP-12303 (stereo).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “More than Yesterday (More Country Songs & City Hits)” as 1965 studio album by Slim Whitman. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1965, 1966—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965. The account is most persuasive where More, than and Yesterday can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1965 studio album by Slim Whitman. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q116734937. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1965 and 1966.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “More than Yesterday (More Country Songs & City Hits)” 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.