# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mel-mcdaniel
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:35:53.454Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mel-mcdaniel"
name: "Mel McDaniel"
slug: "mel-mcdaniel"
description: "Melvin Huston McDaniel was an American country music artist. Many of his top hits were released in the 1980s, including \"Louisiana Saturday Night\", \"Big Ole Brew\", \"Stand Up\", \"Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On\", \"I Call It Love\", \"Stand on It\", and a remake of Chuck Berry's \"Let It Roll \"."
tagline: "American country music artist (1942–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mel_McDaniel.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: "1942-09-06"
deathDate: "2011-03-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.1
  momentum:             1.513847002160605
  historical:           5.837661333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3528305/"
    handle:    "nm3528305"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1572005"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ميل مكدانيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_McDaniel"
    title: "Mel McDaniel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_McDaniel"
    title: "Mel McDaniel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_McDaniel"
    title: "Mel McDaniel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_McDaniel"
    title: "Mel McDaniel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/92d1de38-3ccf-41b3-9e5e-85aee86b8c98"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q783896"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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