# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vernon-dalhart
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:59:18.118Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vernon-dalhart"
name: "Vernon Dalhart"
slug: "vernon-dalhart"
description: "Marion Try Slaughter, better known by his stage name Vernon Dalhart, was an American country music singer and songwriter who recorded music prolifically from 1917 into the 1930s. He aspired to be an opera singer, and began his career this way, but soon began recording country music inspired by his roots in farming and ranching. His recording of the classic ballad \"Wreck of the Old 97\" was the first country song reputed to have sold one million copies, although sales figures for pre-World War Two recordings are difficult to verify. Dalhart has since faded into relative obscurity."
tagline: "American country music singer (1883-1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vernon_Dalhart_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1883-04-06"
deathDate: "1948-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4541154210028382
  historical:           10.77311333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Vernon Dalhart"
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    title: "Vernon Dalhart"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump