# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/percy-wenrich
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:04:26.717Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/percy-wenrich"
name: "Percy Wenrich"
slug: "percy-wenrich"
description: "Percy Wenrich was an American composer of ragtime and popular music. He is best known for writing the songs \"Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet\" and \"When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose\", along with the rag \"The Smiler\". For more than 15 years, Wenrich toured with his wife, vaudeville performer, Dolly Connolly; for whom he wrote several hit songs, including \"Red Rose Rag\", \"Alamo Rag\" and \"Moonlight Bay\". He was known throughout his lifetime as \"The Joplin Kid\"."
tagline: "American composer of ragtime and popular music (1887–1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Percy_Wenrich.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: "1887-01-23"
deathDate: "1952-03-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.809468
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0921090/"
    handle:    "nm0921090"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/661427"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%89_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "پيرسى وينريتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Wenrich"
    title: "Percy Wenrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Wenrich"
    title: "Percy Wenrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Wenrich"
    title: "Percy Wenrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Wenrich"
    title: "Percy Wenrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5e04beb6-cfba-4fa1-b8e8-ae1b58a995d6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q370916"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2052629"
    title: "Percy Wenrich"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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