Yes. Jeff Bates has 93 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 93

songs in LAION-DISCO-12M under the artist name

A list of 12 million songs on YouTube Music, gathered by walking artist pages, that LAION published in 2024 for training general music models.

Including Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me, Forever 17, Shine

Listed under the artist name 93 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

Matched exactly: this YouTube Music artist id is the one the dataset lists these songs under.

Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me

Listed as Jeff Bates – Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me (Once Upon a Star) · Watch on YouTube

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Forever 17

Listed as Jeff Bates – Forever 17 (Forever 17) · Watch on YouTube

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Shine

Listed as Jeff Bates – Shine (Once Upon a Star) · Watch on YouTube

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King

Listed as Jeff Bates – King (Once Upon a Star) · Watch on YouTube

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Once Upon a Star

Listed as Jeff Bates – Once Upon a Star (Once Upon a Star) · Watch on YouTube

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Hay (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir)

Listed as Jeff Bates – Hay (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir) (Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me) · Watch on YouTube

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The Road to Bethlehem

Listed as Jeff Bates – The Road to Bethlehem (Once Upon a Star) · Watch on YouTube

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Lost in the Feeling

Listed as Jeff Bates – Lost in the Feeling (Me and Conway) · Watch on YouTube

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Let Me Be First

Listed as Jeff Bates – Let Me Be First (Once Upon a Star) · Watch on YouTube

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That's What Christmas Is

Listed as Jeff Bates – That's What Christmas Is (That's What Christmas Is) · Watch on YouTube

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Ain't Goodbye Good Enough

Listed as JEFF BATES – Ain't Goodbye Good Enough (Troublemaker) · Watch on YouTube

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Rest of My Life

Listed as JEFF BATES – Rest of My Life (Troublemaker) · Watch on YouTube

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Herod the Great (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir)

Listed as Jeff Bates – Herod the Great (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir) (Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me) · Watch on YouTube

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Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir)

Listed as Jeff Bates – Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir) (Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me) · Watch on YouTube

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Still Love You (Brianna's Song)

Listed as Jeff Bates – Still Love You (Brianna's Song) (Still Love You (Brianna's Song)) · Watch on YouTube

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Little Drummer Boy

Listed as Jeff Bates – Little Drummer Boy (Little Drummer Boy) · Watch on YouTube

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Wayfaring Stranger

Listed as Jeff Bates – Wayfaring Stranger (One Day Closer) · Watch on YouTube

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Coming Home to Me

Listed as Jeff Bates – Coming Home to Me (Coming Home to Me) · Watch on YouTube

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Home Town USA

Listed as Tim Janis, Jeff Bates – Home Town USA (Home Town USA) · Watch on YouTube

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If I Get Drunk Tonight (Livemusiken från Säsong 3)

Listed as Jeff Bates – If I Get Drunk Tonight (Livemusiken från Säsong 3) (Jills Veranda (Livemusiken från Säsong 3)) · Watch on YouTube

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Judging Judas

Listed as JEFF BATES – Judging Judas (Troublemaker) · Watch on YouTube

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Shepherd's Lullabye (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir)

Listed as Jeff Bates – Shepherd's Lullabye (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir) (Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me) · Watch on YouTube

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Change of Pace

Listed as Jeff Bates – Change of Pace (Country's My Middle Name - 25th Anniversary) · Watch on YouTube

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I've Got a Woman

Listed as Jeff Bates – I've Got a Woman (Country's My Middle Name - 25th Anniversary) · Watch on YouTube

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Dead or Alive

Listed as Jeff Bates – Dead or Alive (Jeff Bates) · Watch on YouTube

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Herod the Great

Listed as Jeff Bates – Herod the Great (Once Upon a Star) · Watch on YouTube

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Radio Girl

Listed as Jeff Bates – Radio Girl (Radio Girl) · Watch on YouTube

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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Listed as Jeff Bates – Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (Once Upon a Star) · Watch on YouTube

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Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me

Listed as Jeff Bates – Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me (Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me) · Watch on YouTube

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My Boot Scootin Baby

Listed as Jeff Bates – My Boot Scootin Baby (Country's My Middle Name - 25th Anniversary) · Watch on YouTube

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Some Days

Listed as Jeff Bates – Some Days (Jeff Bates) · Watch on YouTube

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Shine (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir)

Listed as Jeff Bates – Shine (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir) (Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me) · Watch on YouTube

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Life's Railway to Heaven

Listed as Jeff Bates – Life's Railway to Heaven (One Day Closer) · Watch on YouTube

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I Don't Want to Know How It Feels

Listed as Jeff Bates – I Don't Want to Know How It Feels (I Don't Want to Know How It Feels) · Watch on YouTube

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First (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir)

Listed as Jeff Bates – First (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir) (Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me) · Watch on YouTube

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King (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir)

Listed as Jeff Bates – King (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir) (Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me) · Watch on YouTube

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Shepherd's Lullaby

Listed as Jeff Bates – Shepherd's Lullaby (Once Upon a Star) · Watch on YouTube

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Who Needs Kings (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir)

Listed as Jeff Bates – Who Needs Kings (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir) (Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me) · Watch on YouTube

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When Christmas Gets a Hold on Me

Listed as Jeff Bates – When Christmas Gets a Hold on Me (When Christmas Gets a Hold on Me) · Watch on YouTube

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Leaving Town

Listed as JEFF BATES – Leaving Town (Troublemaker) · Watch on YouTube

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The Road the Bethlehem (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir)

Listed as Jeff Bates – The Road the Bethlehem (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir) (Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me) · Watch on YouTube

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Once Upon a Star (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir)

Listed as Jeff Bates – Once Upon a Star (feat. John Ritter's Children's Choir) (Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me) · Watch on YouTube

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Heaven Is a Hell of a Woman

Listed as Jeff Bates – Heaven Is a Hell of a Woman (Me and Conway) · Watch on YouTube

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What this means

Last reviewed 2026-09-24.

Presence in a public research dataset shows that a clip of your recording was listed by academic or industry researchers as material for building or testing audio models. It does not by itself show which commercial products, if any, used the clip. The legal picture is moving. On 31 July 2026 the Regional Court of Munich I ruled in GEMA's case against Suno (case 42 O 763/25) that reproducing works for training, holding them in a model in retrievable form, and generating similar outputs can each infringe copyright under German and EU law; the judgment is not final and can be appealed. In the United States, Warner Music Group settled its claims against Suno on 25 November 2025 with a licensing deal, while the parallel claims by Universal and Sony were still pending at that point. Since then BMG (12 August 2026) and Believe/TuneCore (8 September 2026) have signed opt-in licensing deals with Suno.

What you can do

3 routes. None is a guarantee.

UK, PRS members. Send PRS for Music your report and ask what collective or licensing route covers your works.
- PRS for Music and Artificial Intelligence, Version 1 (October 2025), 2025-10-01
- PRS for Music: AI and music copyright, 2026-09-24
Germany, GEMA members. GEMA won a first-instance ruling against Suno on 31 July 2026 and has a licensing model. Ask how they apply to your repertoire.
- GEMA: Suno AI and OpenAI, GEMA sues for fair compensation, 2025-01-21
- DLA Piper: GEMA v Suno, Munich Regional Court judgment of 31 July 2026, 2026-08-28
- Music Business Worldwide: Germany's GEMA launches AI Charter, 2024-11-05
Signed to Warner, BMG or Believe/TuneCore. Each has an opt-in licensing deal with Suno. Ask your label what opting in or out means for you and whether any settlement money reaches artists.
- Music Business Worldwide: Warner Music Group settles with Suno, 2025-11-25
- Music Ally: Suno signs another music licensing deal, with BMG, 2026-08-12
- Music Business Worldwide: Suno inks global deal with Believe, 2026-09-08

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These pages report where identifiers from public research datasets point. Presence in a dataset is a fact about the dataset, not a claim about the channel or artist, and says nothing about what any company did with the material. If you are this artist and want this page removed, see removals.