Brothers and Sisters..And I Know..Texas Garage Rock Major Bill Smith, Soft 45
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This is Brothers and Sisters...And I Know...Soft Records S-979 (Major Bill Smith) Texas 45 rpm 1966
Original Texas Garage Rock Band Producrd by Major Bill Smith of Ft Worth, TX
With the Scorpians
Side two: I Call Your Name
Labels: VG+ with some ring dirt
Vinyl: VG+ with a few fine hairline scratches...New Gloss...plays and sounds great...
Listen to "you tube" version....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDg_3Qnlq-g
note: This one I have for sale is the Soft Records original, not the youtube red label.
Smith had regional hits with such local acts as the Team-Mates, Ace Dinning, and the Straightjackets, led by a youthful Delbert McClinton. He also claimed to have turned down a singer named John Deutschendorf, who later changed his name to John Denver. Smith’s first national success came in 1962, however, with “Hey! Baby” by Bruce Channel (born Bruce McMeans in Jackonsville, Texas), which prominently featured McClinton’s harmonica. “Hey! Baby” rose to Number 1 on Billboard magazine’s Hot 100 chart, and McClinton’s playing supposedly influenced John Lennon of the Beatles, whose first hit “Love Me Do” featured a McClintonesque harmonica part.
Smith had another huge hit the following year. The story is that Ray Hildebrand and Jill Jackson, two young students at Howard Payne College, drove to Fort Worth from Brownwood and showed up at the studio on a day when the scheduled singer didn’t show. They played Smith their song “Hey Paula”; Smith decided to record it on the spot, and issued it on Le Cam credited to “Jill and Ray.” Mercury Records picked it up for national distribution on their Philips subsidiary but decided to change their names to “Paul and Paula”; the song hit Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1963.
Smith’s third smash hit (Number 2 on the charts) was the lachrymose “Last Kiss,” a song originally written by Wayne Cochrane and performed by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers. The remake, on Smith’s Josie label, hit the charts in September 1964, shortly before Wilson was seriously injured in an automobile accident.
Smith’s last hit was “If You Really Want Me To I’ll Go,” by the Ron-Dels (McClinton’s old Straightjackets, reformed under a new name), which made the Hot 100 in 1965. Thereafter, Smith issued a variety of recordings—by Johnny Copeland, Bobby Skel, Pic and Bill, Willie Hobbs, and Billy Mills, among others—on a variety of labels—Charay, Soft, Shalimar, Manco, Shah, and Billie Fran, among others—with modest regional success
