# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/troy-shondell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:11:51.999Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/troy-shondell"
name: "Troy Shondell"
slug: "troy-shondell"
description: "Gary Wayne Schelton, better known as Troy Shondell, was an American singer who achieved fame in the early 1960s. He became a transatlantic one-hit wonder, by releasing a single that made the record charts in both the US and the UK. The song, \"This Time\" sold over one million records, earning gold disc status. In a single year, sales were over three million copies."
tagline: "American singer (1940-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Troy_Shondell_1962.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: "1940-05-14"
deathDate: "2016-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.825704
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/379712"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%B3%D8%AE%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%86"
    title: "جارى سخيلتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Shondell"
    title: "Troy Shondell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Shondell"
    title: "Troy Shondell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Shondell"
    title: "Troy Shondell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Shondell"
    title: "Troy Shondell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Shondell"
    title: "Troy Shondell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c5cc2fad-ac7b-4437-bdd5-694b2ba7fc5e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7846952"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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