# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-butler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:42:37.110Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-butler"
name: "Joe Butler"
slug: "joe-butler"
description: "Joseph Campbell Butler is an American drummer, singer and actor. He is best known as a member of folk-rock band The Lovin' Spoonful, where he was drummer and later lead vocalist; the group had seven top 10 hits between 1965 and 1966. Outside of his work in music, he is a theater and television actor best known for the musicals Soon and Hair."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Butler_and_the_Lovin_Spoonful_2011.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: "1941-09-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.95
  momentum:             0.6047648136835675
  historical:           9.124992
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124981/"
    handle:    "nm0124981"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.lovinspoonful.com/joe.html"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1105659"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%8A)"
    title: "جو باتلر (موسيقي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%84%DB%95%D8%B1"
    title: "جۆ باتلەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Butler"
    title: "Joe Butler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Butler"
    title: "Joe Butler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Butler"
    title: "Joe Butler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Butler"
    title: "Joe Butler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Butler"
    title: "Joe Butler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell_Butler"
    title: "Joseph Campbell Butler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ef2e420e-4bb3-473f-96b1-7a1f1690b4d8"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6208902"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2910966"
    title: "Joe Butler"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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