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Spooner Oldham

Center Star, United States

Spooner Oldham is credited on 4,001 releases across 837 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1963–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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4,001

Pressings credited

837

Albums

7

Decades active

892

In collections

Biography

Dewey "Spooner" Lindon Oldham Jr. (born June 14, 1943) 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 (The Way I Love You)". As a songwriter, Oldham teamed with Dan Penn to write such hits as "Cry Like a Baby" (the Box Tops), "I'm Your Puppet" (James and Bobby Purify), and "A Woman Left Lonely" and "It Tears Me Up" (Percy Sledge).

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Credited work

4,001 releases · 837 albums · active 1963–2025

  • Performance · 5,842
  • Production · 85
  • Other credits · 40

Studios: Fame Recording Studios · Muscle Shoals Sound Studios · Atlantic Studios · Wally Heider Recording Studio, Los Angeles

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