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Songs in the Key of Eh

live album by Mad Caddies

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ7561516 ↗
Source-derived summary

Songs in the Key of Eh is the first live recording from the Mad Caddies from a 2004 concert at the Opera House in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Songs in the Key of Eh” as live album by Mad Caddies. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Songs, live and album.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Songs, live and album providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Songs in the Key of Eh”, the useful work is to connect “live album by Mad Caddies” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Jun 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7561516. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Songs in the Key of Eh”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Songs in the Key of Eh primary sources, Songs in the Key of Eh archive and Songs 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.

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  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “Songs in the Key of Eh” 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.