# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hank-penny
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:39:51.671Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hank-penny"
name: "Hank Penny"
slug: "hank-penny"
description: "Herbert Clayton Penny was an American musician who sang and played banjo mainly in the Western swing subgenre of country music. He blended country and western music with dixieland, swing, and most notably bebop jazz styles, earning the nickname “the king of hillbilly bebop”. He also worked as a comedian best known for his backwoods character \"That Plain Ol' Country Boy\" on TV with Spade Cooley. He was married to country singer Sue Thompson from 1953–63."
tagline: "American musician (1918-1992)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hank_Penny.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: "1918-09-18"
deathDate: "1992-04-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.78
  momentum:             8.561076604554867
  historical:           6.397881333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672236/"
    handle:    "nm0672236"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/740345"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "هانك بيني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Penny"
    title: "Hank Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Penny"
    title: "Hank Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Penny"
    title: "Hank Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Penny"
    title: "Hank Penny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/49b8ba30-1b74-4d11-b298-9f601992b6fc"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1575570"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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