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Dan Penn

United States

Dan Penn is credited on 4,729 releases across 1,078 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1959–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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4,729

Pressings credited

1,078

Albums

8

Decades active

665

In collections

Biography

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. Dan Penn produced an album on Ronnie Milsap in 1970 on Warner Bros. (AKA the Red Album)

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4,729 releases · 1,078 albums · active 1959–2025

  • Performance · 5,771
  • Production · 460
  • Other credits · 52
  • Engineering · 29
  • Mastering · 6

Studios: Fame Recording Studios · Atlantic Studios · Muscle Shoals Sound Studios · American Sound Studio, Memphis, TN

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