Yes. Wendell Culley has 17 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 17

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 The Lamplighter, Whirlybird, Swinging The Blues: Rails

Listed under the artist name 17 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

The Lamplighter

Listed as Lionel Hampton, Snooky Young, Wendell Culley – The Lamplighter (The Greatest Black Big Bands 1930-1956) · Watch on YouTube

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Whirlybird

Listed as Count Basie, Wendell Culley, Snooky Young – Whirlybird (Highway Jazz - Count Basie, Vol. 1) · Watch on YouTube

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Swinging The Blues: Rails

Listed as Wendell Culley, Thad Jones, Reunald Jones, Marshall Royal – Swinging The Blues: Rails (Count Basie: Swinging the Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Swinging The Blues: The Kid From Red Bank

Listed as Wendell Culley, Thad Jones, Sonny Payne, Snooky Young – Swinging The Blues: The Kid From Red Bank (Count Basie: Swinging the Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Swinging The Blues: Li'l Darlin'

Listed as Wendell Culley, Thad Jones, Sonny Payne, Snooky Young – Swinging The Blues: Li'l Darlin' (Count Basie: Swinging the Blues) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video JbB0C5yLeQQ · row JbB0C5yLeQQ

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I Needs to Bee'd With

Listed as Count Basie, Thad Jones, Snooky Young, Wendell Culley – I Needs to Bee'd With (Highway Jazz - Quincy Jones, Vol. 1) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video LkDCe-6pVJQ · row LkDCe-6pVJQ

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Swinging The Blues: Shiny Stockings

Listed as Wendell Culley, Thad Jones, Sonny Payne, Reunald Jones – Swinging The Blues: Shiny Stockings (Count Basie: Swinging the Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Quince

Listed as Count Basie, Thad Jones, Snooky Young, Wendell Culley – Quince (Highway Jazz - Quincy Jones, Vol. 1) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video NS5OmR69m5c · row NS5OmR69m5c

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Jessica's Day

Listed as Count Basie, Thad Jones, Snooky Young, Wendell Culley – Jessica's Day (Highway Jazz - Quincy Jones, Vol. 1) · Watch on YouTube

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How High the Moon

Listed as Reunald Jones, Thad Jones, Joe Newman, Wendell Culley – How High the Moon (Jazz Collection) · Watch on YouTube

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Swinging The Blues: April In Paris

Listed as Wendell Culley, Thad Jones, Sonny Payne, Reunald Jones – Swinging The Blues: April In Paris (Count Basie: Swinging the Blues) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video VpD1MPv-0H0 · row VpD1MPv-0H0

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Meet B.B.

Listed as Count Basie, Thad Jones, Snooky Young, Wendell Culley – Meet B.B. (Highway Jazz - Quincy Jones, Vol. 1) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video _NDCB_Chn6s · row _NDCB_Chn6s

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Shiny Stockings

Listed as Reunald Jones, Thad Jones, Joe Newman, Wendell Culley – Shiny Stockings (Jazz Collection) · Watch on YouTube

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Splanky

Listed as Count Basie, Wendell Culley, Snooky Young – Splanky (Highway Jazz - Count Basie, Vol. 1) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video g4yTj-4LrWI · row g4yTj-4LrWI

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Swinging The Blues: Duet

Listed as Wendell Culley, Thad Jones, Sonny Payne, Snooky Young – Swinging The Blues: Duet (Count Basie: Swinging the Blues) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video jmvtqv6q-vA · row jmvtqv6q-vA

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Swinging The Blues: Corner Pocket

Listed as Wendell Culley, Thad Jones, Sonny Payne, Reunald Jones – Swinging The Blues: Corner Pocket (Count Basie: Swinging the Blues) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video uK6ObcyFX9I · row uK6ObcyFX9I

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After Supper

Listed as Count Basie, Wendell Culley – After Supper (Highway Jazz - Count Basie, Vol. 1) · 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.