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Why Worry

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ16872890 ↗
Source-derived summary

Why Worry may refer to:

Film and TV

Why Worry?, a 1923 Harold Lloyd film

Music

Why Worry, a 1986 album by Nana Mouskouri

Songs

"Why Worry?" (Clannad song), a 1991 single

"Why Worry Blues" by Jack Prentice (words) and Bud Shepard, George Webb and Vic Sell (music) for the silent film Why Worry?

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 1986, 1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Worry, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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This entry incorporates text from “Why Worry” 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.