# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-l-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:14:59.943Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-l-johnson"
name: "Charles L. Johnson"
slug: "charles-l-johnson"
description: "Charles Leslie Johnson was an American composer of ragtime and popular music. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, died in Kansas City, Missouri, and lived his entire life in those two cities. He published over 300 songs in his life, nearly 40 of them ragtime compositions such as \"Doc Brown’s Cakewalk\", \"Dill Pickles\", \"Apple Jack \", and \"Snookums Rag\". His best selling piece, a sentimental ballad called \"Sweet and Low\", sold over a million copies. Experts believe that had Johnson lived and worked in New York, he would be included alongside Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb as one of the greatest ragtime composers. He wrote more than the other three combined and exemplified a greater range of talent, composing waltzes, tangos, cakewalks, marches, novelty pieces, and other types of music popular at that time."
tagline: "American composer (1876–1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Johnson_Portrait.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: "1876-12-03"
deathDate: "1950-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.03
  momentum:             8.275862068965516
  historical:           7.005328
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/66853767-ea12-492f-ae7a-32cadf020dc3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%A5%D9%84._%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "تشارلز إل. جونسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86)"
    title: "تشارلز جونسون (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_L._Johnson"
    title: "Charles L. Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Johnson_(musicien)"
    title: "Charles Johnson (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Leslie_Johnson"
    title: "Charles Leslie Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_L._Johnson"
    title: "Charles L. Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "چارلس ایل جانسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2959470"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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