# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-o-day
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:01:09.312Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-o-day"
name: "Alan O'Day"
slug: "alan-o-day"
description: "Alan Earle O'Day was an American singer-songwriter, best known for writing and singing \"Undercover Angel\", a million-selling Gold-certified American No. 1 hit in 1977. He also wrote songs for many other notable performers, such as 1974's Helen Reddy No. 1 hit \"Angie Baby\" and \"Rock and Roll Heaven\". In the 1980s he moved from pop music to television, co-writing nearly 100 songs for the Saturday morning Muppet Babies series, and in the 1990s he wrote and performed music on the National Geographic series Really Wild Animals. O'Day also collaborated with Tatsuro Yamashita on a series of popular songs in Japan, including \"Your Eyes\", \"Magic Ways\", \"Christmas Eve\" and \"Fragile\"."
tagline: "American male singer-songwriter (1940-2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alan_O_Day.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1940-10-03"
deathDate: "2013-05-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.45
  momentum:             5.794943457805513
  historical:           9.304364
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0640593/"
    handle:    "nm0640593"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.alanoday.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%88'%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "الان او'داى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AF%DB%8C"
    title: "الن اودی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_O%E2%80%99Day"
    title: "Alan O’Day"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_O'Day"
    title: "Alan O'Day"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_O'Day"
    title: "Alan O'Day"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AF%DB%8C"
    title: "آلن اودی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_O'Day"
    title: "Alan O'Day"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4"
    title: "アラン・オデイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7a5bc5cb-ce7e-46d6-8575-49b1dbe062b0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4707438"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1222261"
    title: "Alan O’Day"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump