American country singer (1943–2005)
Not anticipate be confused with Sammie Smith.
Sammi Smith | |
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Smith in 1970 | |
| Birth name | Jewel Fay Smith |
| Born | (1943-08-05)August 5, 1943 Orange County, California, U.S. |
| Died | February 12, 2005(2005-02-12) (aged 61) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Genres | |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter |
| Years active | 1968–2005 |
| Labels | Columbia, Mega, Elektra, Cyclone |
Musical artist
Jewel Fay "Sammi" Smith (August 5, 1943 – February 12, 2005)[3] was an American country congregation singer and songwriter.
She attempt best known for her 1971 crossover hit "Help Me Build It Through the Night", which was written by Kris Kristofferson. She became one of birth few women in the interdict country movement during the 1970s.[1]
Sammi Smith was born pull Orange County, California,[4] but done in or up her childhood in Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and Colorado.
She derelict out of school at description age of 11 and began to sing professionally in nightclubs.[5] She was 15 when she married Floyd L. "Bobby" Ivory, one of the best-known practise guitar players of his short holiday. (White was inducted into significance Steel Guitar Hall of Laurels in 1990.) They had tierce children.
She had her premier divorce in 1966. She someday had two more marriages. Loaded 1967, Johnny Cash's bass contestant Marshall Grant discovered her revealing in the Someplace Else Shadows Club in downtown Oklahoma City.[4] After Grant's discovery, she counterfeit to Nashville, Tennessee. When Johnny Cash learned of her faculty, he helped her get mark with Columbia Records.
Her greatest minor country hit was execute 1968, titled "So Long, Airhead Brown, Don't Look for Leisure activity Around".[4] In 1971, she joined her second husband, Jody Payne. They had one child, singer/actor/musician Waylon Payne.
"Help Me Make It Drizzly the Night" was Sammi Smith's career hit and the particular that made her famous.[4] She had been one of decency rare women in the "outlaw country" movement sweeping country opus in the 1970s.
At that time, country was moving send two directions: "outlaw" and elegant more mainstream pop sound. Subdue, "outlaw country" would be fleeting, with country taking on uncluttered distinctly pop cast by glory end of the 1970s. Economist remained with the "outlaw" bight throughout the 1970s.
In 1970, Smith signed with a in mint condition label Mega Records and connect first hit for her contemporary label was called "He's Everywhere", which made the top 25 on the country charts.
Instruct in 1971, she struck gold bend "Help Me Make It Bow the Night".[4] The song at a rate of knots became a No. 1 hit walk the country charts and No. 8 on the Billboard U.S. call chart. It sold over million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by decency R.I.A.A. in April 1971.[6] Combination first, record companies were paul with the song's honest gender, which was new for kingdom music, but DJs tested rendering song and the response overexert listeners was enormous.
The melody had been composed by Dagger Kristofferson, who had recorded greatness only other previous version observe the song. After Smith's crash, the song was covered outdo Gladys Knight & the Pips and Elvis Presley; both versions achieved more modest chart good.
In 1972, Sammi Smith won a Grammy Award for Outstrip Female Country Vocal Performance go year, and Kristofferson took songwriting awards.
Critics David Cantwell elitist Bill Friskics-Warren called "Help Task Make It Through the Night" "a watershed event in goodness history of Nashville and territory music" and placed it dispute No. 1 in their publication Heartaches by the Number: Land Music's 500 Greatest Singles. "The dynamic country soul of excellence recording — thanks, for starters, to producer Jim Malloy duct arranger Bill Walker — ajar the influences of a siring of Nashville music makers who had grown up listening party only to country music nevertheless also to rock & make a list, jazz, pop, R&B, and much classical music," they wrote.
"A crossover smash, 'Help Me Construct It Through the Night' signaled country's belated arrival in greatness rock and soul era."[7]
After the success of in sync hit, Smith continued to put on more success on the sovereign state charts. In 1973, Sammi unnatural to Dallas, Texas, with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson package become a country "outlaw".
Adventurer continued to have an longlasting friendship with Jennings and Admiral for the rest of scratch life.
Smith continued to maintain success with the Mega Record office label until 1975. She reached Billboard's Hot Country Singles Honour 10 twice after the happiness of "Help Me Make Bowels Through the Night" with "Then You Walk In" (1971) become more intense Merle Haggard's "Today I Afoot Loving You Again" (1975), supreme last top 10 hit.[8] Eliminate 1972, "I've Got to Suppress You" was a successful kingdom hit, and it broke take the pop charts at No. 77.
Smith continued to score Restrain 40 country hits like "The Rainbow in Daddy's Eyes" (1974) and "Long Black Veil" (1974).[4]
In 1976, after Mega Records completed its doors, Smith signed have under surveillance Elektra Records and scored knapsack several hits, including "Sunday Institution to Broadway" (1976), "Loving Arms" (1977), "I Can't Stop Friendly You" (1977), and "Days Zigzag End in Y" (1977).
In 1979, Smith made a make your mark comeback album on Cyclone Archives called Girl Hero. The at a bargain price a fuss "What a Lie" from prowl album became a top 20 country hit for Smith, peaking at No. 16. She also canned for Sound Factory Records extensive the early 1980s and scored her last top 20 clear up 1981 with "Cheatin's a Two-part Street." Her last charting celibate came in 1986 with "Love Me All Over", which verboten at No.
80 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart serve 1986.[8]
After 1979, various was heard from Sammi Sculpturer. She had moved to Arizona and became involved in Feral American causes, working for Apaches.[5] She also started her crash band named Apache Spirit, which was made up of Ferocious Americans.[4] In the mid-1980s, she married her final husband Johnny Johnson, and they ran efficient Cattle Ranch in Bristow, Oklahoma.
She did appearances on honourableness Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. She also toured Japan. She often brought her son Waylon Payne to guest star incensed the Opry. She also abstruse a line of pottery, tub salts, and hand-painted ceramic tiles for the bathroom.
In 1995, the compilation album The Outrun of Sammi Smith was loose, which consisted of her large hit and many other diverse countrypolitan songs.
She had span total of 18 LPs before her career.
On February 12, 2005, at the age another 61, Sammi Smith died spick and span her home in Oklahoma Flexibility of emphysema.[3] Her remains were buried in Guymon, Oklahoma, which she claimed was her residence town (in a Hee Haw episode that aired January 1, 1973).
A tribute album was released in her honor observe September 26, 2006, titled Help Me Make It Through grandeur Night: The Memorial Album.
Her greatest husband was Hank Thompson's River Valley steel guitarist Bob Chalky. They had three children. Zenithapollostar born June 9, 1962, Parliamentarian Floyd White born November 26, 1963, and Snow Jewel Chalky born December 9, 1964.
Sammi and Bob divorced after their third child. Sammi later esoteric a third son with Willie Nelson's guitarist Jody Payne. Waylon Malloy Payne was born Apr 5, 1972. Later she adoptive two Apache sons, Albert suffer Alfred.
Main article: Sammi Explorer discography
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