# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bennie-benjamin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:05:31.269Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bennie-benjamin"
name: "Bennie Benjamin"
slug: "bennie-benjamin"
description: "Claude August \"Bennie\" Benjamin was a Virgin Islands–born American songwriter. He had particularly successful songwriting partnerships with Sol Marcus, with whom he wrote \"I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire\", \"When the Lights Go On Again \", and \"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood\"; and with George David Weiss, with whom he wrote \"Oh! What It Seemed to Be\" and \"Wheel of Fortune\". Most of his songs were in the traditional pop idiom."
tagline: "United States Virgin Islands musician, songwriter (1907–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bennie_Benjamin.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: "1907-11-04"
deathDate: "1989-05-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.26
  momentum:             1.243523316062176
  historical:           8.362781333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071282/"
    handle:    "nm0071282"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/607388"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بيني بنجامين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "بینی بنجامین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennie_Benjamin"
    title: "Bennie Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennie_Benjamin"
    title: "Bennie Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennie_Benjamin"
    title: "Bennie Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennie_Benjamin"
    title: "Bennie Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennie_Benjamin"
    title: "Bennie Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0273b3c8-8dc8-4432-91ad-a5a632e461a1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q817874"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4656697"
    title: "Bennie Benjamin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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