Yes. Lou Rawls has 172 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 172

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 Please Let Me Be the First to Know, Wade in the Water, Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town

Listed under the artist name 172 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Please Let Me Be the First to Know

Listed as The Pilgrim Travelers, Lou Rawls – Please Let Me Be the First to Know (The Soul Stirring Gospel Sounds of (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1962)) · Watch on YouTube

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Wade in the Water

Listed as The Pilgrim Travelers, Lou Rawls – Wade in the Water (The Soul Stirring Gospel Sounds of (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1962)) · Watch on YouTube

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Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town

Listed as Lou Rawls – Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town (Merry Christmas Ho! Ho! Ho!) · Watch on YouTube

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Sweet Chariot

Listed as The Pilgrim Travelers, Lou Rawls – Sweet Chariot (The Soul Stirring Gospel Sounds of (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1962)) · Watch on YouTube

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Trust Me

Listed as The Pilgrim Travelers, Lou Rawls – Trust Me (The Soul Stirring Gospel Sounds of (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1962)) · Watch on YouTube

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'Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do

Listed as Lou Rawls, Les McCann – 'Tain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do (Stormy Monday (Bonus Track Version)) · Watch on YouTube

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Jesus, Be a Fence Around Me

Listed as The Pilgrim Travelers, Lou Rawls – Jesus, Be a Fence Around Me (The Soul Stirring Gospel Sounds of (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1962)) · Watch on YouTube

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That's Heaven to Me

Listed as The Pilgrim Travelers, Lou Rawls – That's Heaven to Me (The Soul Stirring Gospel Sounds of (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1962)) · Watch on YouTube

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I Remember the Time (Bonus Tracks)

Listed as Lou Rawls, The Pilgrim Travelers – I Remember the Time (Bonus Tracks) (Stormy Monday (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1962)) · Watch on YouTube

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Heartaches (Just When You Think You're Loved)

Listed as Lou Rawls – Heartaches (Just When You Think You're Loved) (Sit Down and Talk to Me) · Watch on YouTube

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Oh Happy Day

Listed as Lou Rawls – Oh Happy Day (I'm Blessed) · Watch on YouTube

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Feel Like Makin' Love

Listed as Lou Rawls – Feel Like Makin' Love (She's Gone) · Watch on YouTube

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See You When I Git There (Live at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York, NY - November 1977)

Listed as Lou Rawls – See You When I Git There (Live at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York, NY - November 1977) (Live) · Watch on YouTube

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We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Listed as Lou Rawls – We Wish You A Merry Christmas (Christmas Is The Time) · Watch on YouTube

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Didn't It Rain

Listed as The Pilgrim Travelers, Lou Rawls – Didn't It Rain (The Soul Stirring Gospel Sounds of (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1962)) · Watch on YouTube

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Walking in the Light of the Lord

Listed as The Pilgrim Travelers, Lou Rawls – Walking in the Light of the Lord (The Soul Stirring Gospel Sounds of (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1962)) · Watch on YouTube

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Motherless Child

Listed as The Pilgrim Travelers, Lou Rawls – Motherless Child (The Soul Stirring Gospel Sounds of (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1962)) · Watch on YouTube

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Come Home (Bonus Tracks)

Listed as Lou Rawls, The Pilgrim Travelers – Come Home (Bonus Tracks) (Stormy Monday (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1962)) · Watch on YouTube

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Ain't That Love, Baby

Listed as Lou Rawls – Ain't That Love, Baby (Now Is The Time) · Watch on YouTube

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If He Holds Your Hand (Bonus Tracks)

Listed as Lou Rawls, The Pilgrim Travelers – If He Holds Your Hand (Bonus Tracks) (Stormy Monday (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1962)) · Watch on YouTube

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Sleigh Ride

Listed as Lou Rawls – Sleigh Ride (Christmas Is The Time) · Watch on YouTube

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Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow

Listed as The Pilgrim Travelers, Lou Rawls – Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow (The Soul Stirring Gospel Sounds of (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1962)) · 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.