# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-dudley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:15:33.241Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-dudley"
name: "Dave Dudley"
slug: "dave-dudley"
description: "Dave Dudley was an American country music singer best known for his truck-driving country anthems of the 1960s and 1970s and his somewhat-slurred bass. His signature song was \"Six Days on the Road\", and he is also remembered for \"Vietnam Blues\", \"Truck Drivin' Son-of-a-Gun\", and \"Me and Ol' C.B.\". His other recordings include a duet with Tom T. Hall, \"Day Drinking\", and his own top-10 hit, \"Fireball Rolled a Seven\", supposedly based on the career and death of Edward Glenn \"Fireball\" Roberts."
tagline: "American musician (1928–2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dave_Dudley.png?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: "1928-05-03"
deathDate: "2003-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.415413333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0240116/"
    handle:    "nm0240116"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/357972"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "ديف دادلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "ديف دودلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%81_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "دیف دودلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Dudley"
    title: "Dave Dudley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Dudley"
    title: "Dave Dudley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Dudley"
    title: "Dave Dudley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%B2"
    title: "Дадли, Дэйв"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2439e604-b15b-40ad-bfaf-ea7c3f5a6fca"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1173181"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1539584"
    title: "Dave Dudley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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