# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:37:20.577Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-jones"
name: "Joe Jones"
slug: "joe-jones"
description: "Joseph Charles Jones was an American R&B singer, songwriter and arranger, who was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Jones is also generally credited with discovering the Dixie Cups. He also worked with B. B. King. As a singer, Jones had his biggest hit in the form of the Top Five 1960 R&B success, \"You Talk Too Much\", which also reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart."
tagline: "American musician (1926–2005)"
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: "1926-08-12"
deathDate: "2005-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.66
  momentum:             0.3658536585365853
  historical:           10.95997333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1392714/"
    handle:    "nm1392714"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/391789"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%8A)"
    title: "جو جونز (موسيقي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جو جونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Jones"
    title: "Joe Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Jones_(singer)"
    title: "Joe Jones (singer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Jones"
    title: "Joe Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "جو جونز (خواننده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Jones_(chanteur)"
    title: "Joe Jones (chanteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Jones_(cantante)"
    title: "Joe Jones (cantante)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Jones"
    title: "Joe Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Jones"
    title: "Joe Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a6967e0c-8623-4d40-8070-65ee057ac21a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q596817"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1126409"
    title: "Joe Jones"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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