# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jimmy-clanton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:33:03.891Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jimmy-clanton"
name: "Jimmy Clanton"
slug: "jimmy-clanton"
description: "Jimmy Clanton is an American singer who became known as the \"swamp pop R&B teenage idol\". His band recorded a hit song \"Just a Dream\" which Clanton had written in 1958 for the Ace Records label. It reached number four on the Billboard chart and sold a million copies. Clanton performed on Dick Clark's American Bandstand and toured with popular artists like Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis and the Platters."
tagline: "American singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jimmy_Clanton_1975.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: "1938-09-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.24
  momentum:             0.2390939597315436
  historical:           9.287876
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0163402/"
    handle:    "nm0163402"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2XZXvrqedRMiKv6UWjAT4B"
    handle:    "2XZXvrqedRMiKv6UWjAT4B"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جيمي كلانتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جيمى كلانتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Clanton"
    title: "Jimmy Clanton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Clanton"
    title: "Jimmy Clanton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Clanton"
    title: "Jimmy Clanton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジミー・クラントン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Clanton"
    title: "Jimmy Clanton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B5_%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99"
    title: "จิมมี แคลนตัน"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c5e05e09-cae4-47c5-b0b5-6dfcb5e35186"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6199827"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1041748"
    title: "Jimmy Clanton"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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