# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franny-beecher
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:12:23.481Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franny-beecher"
name: "Franny Beecher"
slug: "franny-beecher"
description: "Francis Eugene Beecher was the lead guitarist for Bill Haley & His Comets from 1954 to 1962, and is best remembered for his innovative guitar solos that incorporated elements of jazz. He composed the classics \"Blue Comet Blues\", \"Goofin' Around\", \"Week End\", \"The Catwalk\", and \"Shaky\" when he was the lead guitarist for Bill Haley and the Comets. He continued to perform with surviving members of the Comets into 2006. In 2012, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Beecher as a member of the Comets by a special committee, aimed at correcting the previous mistake of not inducting the Comets with Bill Haley."
tagline: "Rock and roll musician (1921–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Al_Rex_-_Bill_Haley_and_the_Comets1956_(cropped).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: "1921-09-29"
deathDate: "2014-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.39
  momentum:             6.09318797048244
  historical:           8.175885333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0066322/"
    handle:    "nm0066322"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فرانى بيتشير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Franny Beecher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franny_Beecher"
    title: "Franny Beecher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franny_Beecher"
    title: "Franny Beecher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franny_Beecher"
    title: "Franny Beecher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franny_Beecher"
    title: "Franny Beecher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%97%E5%85%B0%E5%B0%BC%C2%B7%E6%AF%94%E5%BD%BB"
    title: "弗兰尼·比彻"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/25c2b261-b518-483f-88c2-129617d707d7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1445381"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2976504"
    title: "Franny Beecher"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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