# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-turk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:58:11.652Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-turk"
name: "Roy Turk"
slug: "roy-turk"
description: "Roy Kenneth Turk was an American songwriter and lyricist, who frequently collaborated with composer Fred E. Ahlert, with whom he wrote their popular 1929 song \"Mean to Me\", which became a jazz standard. In 1926 he collaborated with Lou Handman on his best known song, the 1927 hit Are You Lonesome Tonight?, which Elvis Presley later revived. He worked with many other composers, including for film lyrics. Turk was elected posthumously to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970."
tagline: "American songwriter and lyricist (1892-1934)"
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: "1892-09-20"
deathDate: "1934-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.56
  momentum:             1.37546468401487
  historical:           9.011016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877172/"
    handle:    "nm0877172"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/642080"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89_%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "روى ترك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Turk"
    title: "Roy Turk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Turk"
    title: "Roy Turk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Turk"
    title: "Roy Turk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Turk"
    title: "Roy Turk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Turk"
    title: "Roy Turk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Turk"
    title: "Roy Turk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roy_Turk"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/30305a68-ba45-42b6-8f25-f0917b4fc06d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q984231"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70714"
    title: "Roy Turk"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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