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Promises, Promises

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ7249805
Source-derived summary

Promises, Promises may refer to:

Music

Promises, Promises (musical), a 1968 musical based on the 1960 film The Apartment, or the title song

Promises, Promises (original Broadway cast recording), a 1969 album containing a recording of the musical made by its original Broadway cast

Promises, Promises (2010 Broadway revival cast recording), a 2010 album containing a recording of the musical made by its 2010 Broadway revival cast

Other albums

Promises, Promises (Lynn Anderson album) or the title song (see below), 1967

Promises, Promises (Die! Die! Die! album) or the title song, 2008

Promises, Promises (Dionne Warwick album), including the title song from the musical, 1968

Promises, Promises, by Lake Street Dive, 2008

Songs

"Promises, Promises" (The Cooper Temple Clause song), 2003

"Promises, Promises" (Incubus song), 2011

"Promises, Promises" (Lynn Anderson song), 1968

"Promises, Promises" (Naked Eyes song), 1983

"Promises, Promises", by Christopher Williams from Adventures in Paradise, 1989

"Promises, Promises", by Exile from Hang On to Your Heart, 1985

"Promises, Promises", by Nik Kershaw from You've Got to Laugh, 2006

Television episodes

"Promises, Promises" (ALF), 1988

"Promises, Promises" (Doctors), 2004

"Promises Promises!" (The Raccoons), 1990

"Promises, Promises" (Roseanne), 1993

Promises, Promises, an episode of Shining Time Station, 1989

Other media

Promises!

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Promises, Promises” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 1960, 1969, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Promises, Wikimedia and disambiguation can be independently traced.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7249805. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1968, 1960, 1969 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from Promises, Promises” 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.