Here for your delectation is the SPECTACULAR & RARE------------------SMITH: A GROUP CALLED SMITH LP

In 1969 Smith was formed in Los Angeles, California, their first album entitled "A Group Called Smith," featured McCormick as the primary vocalist. Smith mainly played and recorded covers of pop and soul songs and made the top five with a remake of "Baby It's You", charting higher than the previous hit version by the The Shirelles. Smith's version was also featured in Quentin Tarantino's film Death Proof, part of the Grindhouse double feature.

"Baby It's You" is a song written by Burt Bacharach (music), and Luther Dixon (credited as Barney Williams) and Mack David (lyrics). It was recorded by the Shirelles and the Beatles, and became hits for both. The highest-charting version of "Baby It's You" was by the band Smith, who took the song to number five on the US charts in 1969.   

This is a rare, and very interesting lp.  The rendition of "Baby, Its You" is one of the few perfect pieces of music where everything comes together to achieve absolute perfection. It's like Beethoven. Gayle McKenzie's vocal is incredible, and this song alone is worth the price of admission. The band plays the song slow, which intensifies its emotional impact, and Gale McKenzie's vocal is incredibly rich with emotion, sad at the implicit fact that the relationship is not where the singer wants it to be, but still reaching out intensely to make the relationship more. You will never hear a vocal with such perfect emotional and vocal range. This is one of those rare pieces of music that, when you hear it, it never leaves you, and nothing compares to it. 

Smith ?– A Group Called Smith

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Companies etc

• Recorded At – ABC Recording Studios
• Mastered At – Longwear Plating
• Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria
• Published By – Irving Music, Inc.
• Published By – Trousdale Music Publishers, Inc.
• Published By – Mainstay Music
• Published By – Arc Music (2)
• Published By – Gideon Music, Inc.
• Published By – Kenny Lynch Music, Inc.

Credits

• Arranged By [Horns] – Jimmie Haskell*
• Engineer – Bill Cooper, Bill Schnee, Phil Kaye
• Performer – Bob Evans (5), Gayle McCormick, James Richard Cliburn, Jerry Carter, Larry Moss
• Photography By – Paul Slaughter
• Producer – Joel Sill, Steve Barri

A FABULOUS COLLECTIBLE!!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

This is the DUNHILL DS 50056 lp. The cover is excellent, showing a tiny breather hole at the top corner. The record shows no visible scratches under normal light. Check my feedback to see that I sell exactly as I describe.  So bid now to own this magnificent, impossible-to-find ROCK COLLECTIBLE.
 

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