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Wide Awake (Frazier Chorus album)

album by Frazier Chorus

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ7998561 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wide Awake is the final album by English pop group Frazier Chorus, released in 1995 by Pinkerton Records. In 1996, Pure Records released the album in the US with a different running order and three extra tracks.

Editorial summary

“Wide Awake (Frazier Chorus album)” enters the record as album by Frazier Chorus. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wide, Awake and Frazier 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—1995, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wide, Awake and Frazier.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Wide Awake (Frazier Chorus album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wide, Awake and Frazier provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7998561. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995 and 1996.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. 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.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Wide Awake (Frazier Chorus album)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Wide Awake (Frazier Chorus album) primary sources, Wide Awake (Frazier Chorus album) archive and Wide 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.

Questions for further research

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  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “Wide Awake (Frazier Chorus album)” 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.