# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-hill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:35:51.246Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-hill"
name: "Billy Hill"
slug: "billy-hill"
description: "William Joseph Hill was an American songwriter, violinist, and pianist who found fame writing Western songs such as \"They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree\", \"The Last Round-Up\", \"Wagon Wheels\", and \"Empty Saddles\". Hill's most popular song was \"The Glory of Love\", recorded by Benny Goodman in 1936 and by Peggy Lee, Otis Redding, Paul McCartney, and others."
tagline: "American songwriter and lyricist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Billy_Hill_1933.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: "1899-07-14"
deathDate: "1940-12-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.41
  momentum:             4.92506970260223
  historical:           6.143701333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/616854"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8_%D8%A3%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A)"
    title: "بيلي هيل (كاتب أغاني)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "بيلى هيل (كاتب اغانى من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hill_(songwriter)"
    title: "Billy Hill (songwriter)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "بیلی هیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ビリー・ヒル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a823be3f-9125-476b-89d5-7712a5eb8b01"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4912712"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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