Sammi Smith

Genres:	Country & Bluegrass • Pop / Rock
Descriptive "tags":	country • female vocalists • 60s • 70s • objectum-sexualis • pottery wordz • brems tagg radio • my cow girls • country divas • 60s country • 70s country
Decades Active:	1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Links online:	Wikipedia

Biography

Jewel Fay Smith, 5 August 1943, Orange, California, USA, d. 12 February 2005, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. As her father was a serviceman, the family moved around, and when aged only 11, Smith was singing pop standards in nightclubs. She was discovered in 1967 by Johnny Cash’s bass player, Marshall Grant, and signed with Columbia Records. Minor US country hits followed with ‘So Long, Charlie Brown, Don’t Look For Me Around’, ‘Why Do You Do Me Like You Do’, and ‘Brownsville Lumberyard’. She toured with Waylon Jennings and befriended a janitor at Columbia, Kris Kristofferson. Her warm, husky version of his song ‘Help Me Make It Through The Night’ sold two million copies, topped the country charts, and was voted the Country Music Association’s Single Of The Year for 1971. Ironically, her record label, Mega, had been formed as a tax write-off and the last thing the owner wanted was a hit record. Smith had further...

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