# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-robertson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:29:40.670Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-robertson"
name: "Don Robertson"
slug: "don-robertson"
description: "Donald Irwin Robertson was an American songwriter and pianist, in country and popular music genres. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. As a performer, he hit the US Top 10 with \"The Happy Whistler\" in 1956. The track reached No. 8 in the UK Singles Chart the same year. It sold more than one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc."
tagline: "American songwriter b. 1922 (1922–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Robertson_(1966).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: "1922-12-05"
deathDate: "2015-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.018468
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731809/"
    handle:    "nm0731809"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "دون روبرتسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دون روبرتسون (عازف بيانو)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دون روبرتسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Robertson_(songwriter)"
    title: "Don Robertson (songwriter)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Robertson"
    title: "Don Robertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Irwin_Robertson"
    title: "Donald Irwin Robertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Robertson"
    title: "Don Robertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Robertson"
    title: "Don Robertson"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cb35d893-ddff-440f-b64d-a3ca1962e51e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3713632"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Don Robertson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump