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Dan Penn (Wallace Daniel Pennington) was born on 16 November, 1941 in Vernon, Alabama, U.S., is an American songwriter. Discover Dan Penn's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?
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Wallace Daniel Pennington |
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Songwriter, producer, singer, musician |
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82 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio |
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16 November 1941 |
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16 November |
Birthplace |
Vernon, Alabama, U.S. |
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United States
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He is a member of famous artist with the age 82 years old group.
Dan Penn Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dan Penn Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Dan Penn worth at the age of 82 years old? Dan Penn’s income source is mostly from being a successful artist. He is from United States. We have estimated Dan Penn's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Dan Penn (born Wallace Daniel Pennington, November 16, 1941) is an American songwriter, singer, musician, and record producer, who co-wrote many soul hits of the 1960s, including "The Dark End of the Street" and "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" with Chips Moman and "Cry Like a Baby" with Spooner Oldham.
Penn also produced many hits, including "The Letter", by The Box Tops.
He has been described as a white soul and blue-eyed soul singer.
Penn has released relatively few records featuring his own vocals and musicianship, preferring the relative anonymity of songwriting and producing.
It was during his time with FAME that Penn cut his first record, "Crazy Over You" in 1960, and wrote his first hit, "Is a Bluebird Blue?", which was recorded by Conway Twitty in the same year.
Penn continued writing and producing hits for numerous artists during the 1960s and finally released a record of his own, the 1972 single entitled "Nobody's Fool."
It included 24 numbers (23 unreleased) Penn had recorded at the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, between 1964 and 1966.
The success of the number 6 pop hit "I'm Your Puppet" by James & Bobby Purify in 1966 convinced him that songwriting was a lucrative and worthwhile career.
In early 1966, Penn moved to Memphis, began writing for Press Publishing Company, and worked with Chips Moman at his American Sound Studio.
Their intense and short-lived partnership produced some of the best known and most enduring songs of the soul genre.
Their first collaboration, the enduring classic "The Dark End of the Street" (1967), was first a hit for James Carr and has since been recorded by many others.
A few months later, during a recording sessions in which Jerry Wexler introduced Aretha Franklin to FAME Studios and her first major success, the pair wrote "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" in the studio for her, which went to number 37 in Billboard in 1967.
In early 1967, Penn produced "The Letter" for the Box Tops.
Along with long-time friend and collaborator Spooner Oldham, Penn also wrote a number of hits for the band, including "Cry Like a Baby," another song that has been covered many times.
Songs written or co-written by Penn include:
Dan Penn produced an album on Ronnie Milsap in 1970 on Warner Bros. (AKA the Red Album)
Penn grew up in Vernon, Alabama, United States, and spent much of his teens and early twenties in the Quad Cities–Muscle Shoals area.
He was a regular at Rick Hall's FAME Studios as a performer, songwriter, and producer.
An album of the same name followed in 1973.
He was coaxed into the studio again in 1993 to record the acclaimed "Do Right Man," for which he reunited with many of his friends and colleagues from Memphis and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio.
He also has recently written and produced for the Hacienda Brothers.
The team of Penn, Whitsett, and Lindsey were responsible for the title track of Solomon Burke's album Don't Give Up on Me (also recorded by Joe Cocker ), and Penn produced 2005's Better to Have It by Bobby Purify, which featured twelve songs from the team.
Oldham and he also tour together as their schedules permit.
In November 2012, the collection The Fame Recordings was released.
In the fall of 2013, he was inducted in the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.