# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/buck-ram
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:09:51.106Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/buck-ram"
name: "Buck Ram"
slug: "buck-ram"
description: "Samuel \"Buck\" Ram was an American songwriter, and popular music producer and arranger. He was one of BMI's top five songwriters/air play in its first 50 years, alongside Paul Simon, Kris Kristofferson, Jimmy Webb, and Paul McCartney. He is best known for his long association with The Platters and also wrote, produced and arranged for the Penguins, the Coasters, the Drifters, Ike and Tina Turner, Ike Cole, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Ella Fitzgerald, and many others. He was also known as Ande Rand, Lynn Paul or Jean Miles."
tagline: "American songwriter, music executive, popular music producer and arranger"
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: "1907-11-21"
deathDate: "1991-01-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.81
  momentum:             3.700394381318063
  historical:           9.454144
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0118410/"
    handle:    "nm0118410"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/415783"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "باك رام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "باك رام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Ram"
    title: "Buck Ram"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Ram"
    title: "Buck Ram"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Ram"
    title: "Buck Ram"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Ram"
    title: "Buck Ram"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%A0%D1%8D%D0%BC"
    title: "Бак Рэм"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Ram"
    title: "Buck Ram"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/10d9b154-7c29-4bed-93da-3ba5965ae918"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4982926"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2820337"
    title: "Buck Ram"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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