O.C. Smith

O.C. Smith – O.C. Smith At Home (1969/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:25 minutes | 824 MB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

O.C. Smith at Home was the finest showcase for the singer’s warm, baritone vocals. Produced by Jerry Fuller, the LP’s songs revolved around home and heart. The LP cover featured the singer walking with a little boy. The second single, the rousing, dynamic “Daddy’s Little Man,” hit Billboard’s charts in fall 1969. Its flip side was the driving, horn-accented soap opera-themed “If I Leave You Now.” The lushly orchestrated “The Learning Tree” was the opening title theme of the family drama movie directed by Gordon Parks. “Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife” cracked the R&B Top 25. All of this musical magic was wrapped up in the great arrangements of H.B. Barnum. Some of the LP tracks appeared on his O.C. Smith’s Greatest Hits.

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O.C. Smith – O.C. Smith At Home (1969/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 35:25 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

O.C. Smith at Home was the finest showcase for the singer’s warm, baritone vocals. Produced by Jerry Fuller, the LP’s songs revolved around home and heart. The LP cover featured the singer walking with a little boy. The second single, the rousing, dynamic “Daddy’s Little Man,” hit Billboard’s charts in fall 1969. Its flip side was the driving, horn-accented soap opera-themed “If I Leave You Now.” The lushly orchestrated “The Learning Tree” was the opening title theme of the family drama movie directed by Gordon Parks. “Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife” cracked the R&B Top 25. All of this musical magic was wrapped up in the great arrangements of H.B. Barnum. Some of the LP tracks appeared on his O.C. Smith’s Greatest Hits.

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O.C. Smith – Hickory Holler Revisted (1968/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:38 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

O.C. Smith began as a jazz vocalist and later moved into country and R&B. The Louisiana vocalist was hired to replace Joe Williams in Count Basie’s band in the early ’60s after cutting some unsuccessful records for Cadence and others in the ’50s. He sang with Basie’s band from 1961 to 1963. Following a period where he sang country and even had a hit with “Son of Hickory Holler’s Tramp,” Smith moved into soul. His biggest hit was “Little Green Apples,” which was number two on both the pop and R&B charts in 1968. His other big R&B single was “Daddy’s Little Man,” which reached number nine in 1969. Smith stayed on Columbia until 1974, but didn’t score any more big records. He moved to Caribou in 1976 and recorded later for Shady Brooks, Family, Motown, and Rendezvous. In 1985 he began to balance his work in the recording studio with his new passion for Christian ministry, but despite the fact that he founded his own church in Los Angeles, The City of Angels Church of Religious Science, he continued to perform and record until the time of his death on November 23, 2001.

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