# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/spooner-oldham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:23:24.734Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/spooner-oldham"
name: "Spooner Oldham"
slug: "spooner-oldham"
description: "Dewey \"Spooner\" Lindon Oldham Jr. is an American songwriter and session musician. An organist, he recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, at FAME Studios as part of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section on such hit R&B songs as Percy Sledge's \"When a Man Loves a Woman\", Wilson Pickett's \"Mustang Sally\", and Aretha Franklin's \"I Never Loved a Man \". As a songwriter, Oldham teamed with Dan Penn to write such hits as \"Cry Like a Baby\", \"I'm Your Puppet\", and \"A Woman Left Lonely\" and \"It Tears Me Up\"."
tagline: "American songwriter and session musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Spooner_Oldham_in_2009.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: "1943-06-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.52
  momentum:             0.453074433656958
  historical:           8.904652
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1315410/"
    handle:    "nm1315410"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/395171"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "سبونر اولدهام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooner_Oldham"
    title: "Spooner Oldham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooner_Oldham"
    title: "Spooner Oldham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooner_Oldham"
    title: "Spooner Oldham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooner_Oldham"
    title: "Spooner Oldham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooner_Oldham"
    title: "Spooner Oldham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooner_Oldham"
    title: "Spooner Oldham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooner_Oldham"
    title: "Spooner Oldham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ba170eca-541b-4ee5-b332-54ff954b75ea"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q561873"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1903962"
    title: "Spooner Oldham"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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