# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tex-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:11:26.589Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tex-williams"
name: "Tex Williams"
slug: "tex-williams"
description: "Sollie Paul \"Tex\" Williams was an American Western swing singer and musician. He is best known for his talking blues style; his biggest hit was the novelty song, \"Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! \", which held the number-one position on the Hot Country Songs chart for 16 weeks in 1947. \"Smoke\" was the number-five song on Billboard's Top 100 list for 1947, and was number one on the country chart that year."
tagline: "American musician (1917–1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tex_Williams_1967.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: "1917-08-23"
deathDate: "1985-10-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.048960000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931793/"
    handle:    "nm0931793"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/357949"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC%D1%81%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81"
    title: "Уильямс, Текс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/52889ea9-1c52-487e-95a4-8c53f8322ca2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3"
    title: "تيكس ويليامس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Williams"
    title: "Tex Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%8E%DA%A9%D8%B3_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "تێکس ویلیامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Williams"
    title: "Tex Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Williams"
    title: "Tex Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Williams"
    title: "Tex Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Williams"
    title: "Tex Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321178"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1746613"
    title: "Tex Williams"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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