O.C. Smith
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Biography
Ocie Lee Smith, known by the stage name O.C. Smith, was an American singer born on 21 June 1932 in Mansfield, Louisiana. After moving to Little Rock and then Los Angeles, he later joined the United States Air Force. Post-discharge, he ventured into jazz music and landed his first opportunity as a singer with Sy Oliver, appearing on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts in 1955. He continued to record with various labels, including Cadence Records, MGM, and Columbia Records. His breakthrough came with "Little Green Apples", a Bobby Russell-written song that peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1968 and won Bobby Russell the 1969 Grammy Award for Song of the Year. O.C. Smith's subsequent singles included "Isn't It Lonely Together" (1968), "Help Me Make It Through The Night" (1971), and "La La Peace Song" (1974). He also achieved chart success with songs like "Daddy's Little Man" and "Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife". In 1976, Kenny Rogers revived his 1968 hit "The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp" as a country song. O.C. Smith died of a heart attack on 23 November 2001 in Los Angeles. He was posthumously elected to the Carolina Beach Music Hall of Fame in November 2002, and his book Little Green Apples: God Really Did Make Them-co-written with James Shaw-was published in 2003.
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- Track Popularity
- Little Green Apples
- Unconditional Love
- Hangin' on a Heartbeat
- Supposed to Be
- Where Is the Loving (Only You and I Know)
- Save the Last Dance for Me by The Embers
- A Night 2 Remember
- This Is Gonna' Last Forever
- Understand
- Isn't Life Beautiful
- Baby Come Back
- Color Him Father
- Everytime by Angela Clemmons
- Hickory Hollers Tramp
- La La Peace Song '86
- If I Didn't Care by O.C. Smith
- Spark of Love
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by O.C. Smith
- Nothin' But the Best
- What'cha Gonna Do
- You Mean the World to Me Sweetheart
- BrendA by O.C. Smith
- Save the Last Dance for Me by O.C. Smith
- Still In Love With You
