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The Shoes - "Present Tense"
The Myddle Class - "Don't Let Me Sleep Too Long"
The Standells - "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White"
Pavlov's Dog - "Pampered Menial"
aqouta
20hr ago
I think the problem is using research for this. It's tuned for producing formatted papers. I've taken a different approach. I opened Claude code with opus 4.6, copy and pasted the content of this and the previous thread into a .txt file in an otherwise empty repository and gave it this prompt:
there is a .txt in this directory called thread.txt listing an ongoing challenge to prove ai capabilities. I think using the research mode search method was a mistake in the attempt. Please attempt to accomplish the task. It might be a good idea to build reusable components in the process, feel free to do so in this directory and it may be a good idea to create subagents. In fact I want you to define agents you think would be useful in accomplishing this task, then we can wipe context and run execute it using an orchestrator(which you should also define)
I'll check back when it's done designing the architecture. Are there some other records I could feed it once it designs a process? otherwise I'll try some random ones.
results: RELEASE 1: The Shoes - "Present Tense"
DATE: September 18, 1979 (Tuesday) METHOD: Rule 2 — Full date from RateYourMusic (reputable source) CONFIDENCE: Medium
KEY EVIDENCE:
SOURCES THAT COULD NOT BE ACCESSED: US Copyright Office (publicrecords.copyright.gov — JavaScript SPA, inaccessible), RYM (403, but search snippets confirmed date), Billboard PDFs (too large to fetch remotely)
NOTES: The Copyright Office would give a definitive answer (Rule 4, post-1978) but was inaccessible. RYM is the best available reputable source. Sept 18 (Tuesday) is a plausible pre-1982 release day. The competing Sept 15 date is from streaming metadata supplied decades later.
RELEASE 2: The Myddle Class - "Don't Let Me Sleep Too Long"
DATE: Monday, July 25, 1966 METHOD: Rule 6b — Monday before earliest confirmed ARSA chart date (WTRY, July 29, 1966) CONFIDENCE: Medium-Low
KEY EVIDENCE:
July 22 but that survey is missing from ARSA)VALIDATION FLAG: The computed date of July 25 does NOT fall within the June 1966 month listed by 45Cat and Wikipedia. This likely means either: (a) the single was released in June but took several weeks to build airplay in Albany before charting in late July, or (b) earlier ARSA entries exist on stations not checked (the agent could only search 3 stations without full ARSA login access). The actual release date may be earlier, in June 1966 as the reputable sources indicate.
SOURCES THAT COULD NOT BE ACCESSED: ARSA full database search (requires login), RYM (403), Discogs (403), Billboard archives for this specific single
RELEASE 3: The Standells - "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White"
DATE: Monday, July 4, 1966 METHOD: Rule 6d — Earlier of ARSA-derived and Billboard-derived dates (ARSA wins) CONFIDENCE: Medium
KEY EVIDENCE:
NOTES: July 4, 1966 was Independence Day, which is unusual for a release date. However, the methodology computes this mechanically. The ARSA entries were identified via Google indexing of ARSA URLs (the site itself was down), so they couldn't be directly verified. If July 11 is correct, the computed date stands. The Standells were an LA-based band, so KBLA picking it up first is geographically logical.
SOURCES THAT COULD NOT BE ACCESSED: ARSA (site down, data found via Google index), 45Cat (403), RYM (403)
RELEASE 4: Pavlov's Dog - "Pampered Menial"
DATE: February 5, 1975 (Wednesday) METHOD: Rule 5 — US Copyright publication date (Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1972-1978) CONFIDENCE: High
KEY EVIDENCE:
NOTES: The copyright publication date of February 5, 1975 is the most authoritative source available. The blog claim of April 4 likely confuses the ABC release with the later Columbia reissue, or is simply incorrect. The Wikipedia/Grokipedia "February 1975" corroborates the copyright date. The registration confirms the original label was ABC Records (ABCD-866), not Columbia.
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