# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-frederick-coots
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:40:01.772Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-frederick-coots"
name: "John Frederick Coots"
slug: "john-frederick-coots"
description: "John Frederick Coots, better known as J. Fred Coots or Fred Coots, was an American songwriter. He composed more than 700 popular songs and more than a dozen Broadway shows. In 1934, Coots wrote the melody with his then chief collaborator, lyricist Haven Gillespie, for the biggest success of either man's career, \"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town.\" The song became one of the biggest sellers in American history."
tagline: "American songwriter (1897–1985)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/John_Frederick_Coots.jpg"
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: "1897-05-02"
deathDate: "1985-04-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.25
  momentum:             8.446601941747572
  historical:           9.886322666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178512/"
    handle:    "nm0178512"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جون فريديريك كوتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Fred_Coots"
    title: "J. Fred Coots"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Fred_Coots"
    title: "J. Fred Coots"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Fred_Coots"
    title: "J. Fred Coots"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frederick_Coots"
    title: "John Frederick Coots"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Fred_Coots"
    title: "J. Fred Coots"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Fred_Coots"
    title: "J. Fred Coots"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frederick_Coots"
    title: "John Frederick Coots"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frederick_Coots"
    title: "John Frederick Coots"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Fred_Coots"
    title: "J. Fred Coots"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump