# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-stobaugh
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:57:24.880Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-stobaugh"
name: "Fred Stobaugh"
slug: "fred-stobaugh"
description: "Fred Stobaugh was a retired truck driver from Peoria, Illinois who became a viral sensation as a songwriter. A documentary video about the making of the song Oh Sweet Lorraine, based on a text that Stobaugh wrote for his wife of 72 years, became a viral video in September 2013. The song based on his text subsequently entered the Billboard Hot 100 as well as other international charts."
tagline: "American truck driver, had a hit song at age 96"
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: "1917-08-22"
deathDate: "2016-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.736465333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/47a536a5-191c-4aea-9d74-87dac0326ad4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Stobaugh"
    title: "Fred Stobaugh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Stobaugh"
    title: "Fred Stobaugh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Stobaugh"
    title: "Fred Stobaugh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Stobaugh"
    title: "Fred Stobaugh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Stobaugh"
    title: "Fred Stobaugh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Stobaugh"
    title: "Fred Stobaugh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14757327"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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