Post by TomLine on Oct 28, 2018 15:54:42 GMT -5
TRIBUTE TO SAMMI SMITH
by Tom Lineaweaver
by Tom Lineaweaver
Sammi Smith (August 5, 1943 – February 12, 2005) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Born Jewel Faye Smith, she is best known for her 1971 country-pop crossover hit "Help Me Make It Through the Night", which was written by Kris Kristofferson. She became one of the few women in the outlaw country movement during the 1970s.
Sammi Smith was born in Orange County, California, in 1943 but spent her childhood in Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and Colorado. She dropped out of school at the age of eleven and began to sing professionally in nightclubs. She was only fifteen when she married Steel Guitar Hall of Fame and Night Club Operator Bobby White. They had three children. She had her first divorce in 1966. She would eventually have two more marriages. In 1967 Johnny Cash's bass player Marshall Grant discovered her singing in the Someplace Else Night Club in downtown Oklahoma City. After Grant's discovery she moved to Nashville, Tennessee. When Johnny Cash learned of her talent, he helped her get signed with Columbia Records. Her first minor country hit was in 1968, titled "So Long, Charlie Brown, Don't Look for Me Around". The song showed Smith's potential as a country music powerhouse. In 1971 she married her second husband, Willie Nelson's guitarist Jody Payne. They had one child, singer/actor/musician Waylon Payne, whose godfather is country legend Waylon Jennings.
On February 12, 2005, at the age of 61, Sammi Smith died at her home in Oklahoma City of emphysema. Her remains were buried in Guymon, Oklahoma, which she claimed was her home town (in a Hee Haw episode that aired Jan 1, 1973).
To mark Sammi Smith's long career, a tribute album was released in her honor on September 26, 2006, titled Help Me Make It Through the Night: The Memorial Album. It featured all of her biggest hits from the 1970s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammi_Smith
Sammi Smith was born in Orange County, California, in 1943 but spent her childhood in Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and Colorado. She dropped out of school at the age of eleven and began to sing professionally in nightclubs. She was only fifteen when she married Steel Guitar Hall of Fame and Night Club Operator Bobby White. They had three children. She had her first divorce in 1966. She would eventually have two more marriages. In 1967 Johnny Cash's bass player Marshall Grant discovered her singing in the Someplace Else Night Club in downtown Oklahoma City. After Grant's discovery she moved to Nashville, Tennessee. When Johnny Cash learned of her talent, he helped her get signed with Columbia Records. Her first minor country hit was in 1968, titled "So Long, Charlie Brown, Don't Look for Me Around". The song showed Smith's potential as a country music powerhouse. In 1971 she married her second husband, Willie Nelson's guitarist Jody Payne. They had one child, singer/actor/musician Waylon Payne, whose godfather is country legend Waylon Jennings.
On February 12, 2005, at the age of 61, Sammi Smith died at her home in Oklahoma City of emphysema. Her remains were buried in Guymon, Oklahoma, which she claimed was her home town (in a Hee Haw episode that aired Jan 1, 1973).
To mark Sammi Smith's long career, a tribute album was released in her honor on September 26, 2006, titled Help Me Make It Through the Night: The Memorial Album. It featured all of her biggest hits from the 1970s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammi_Smith
Sammi Smith was going strong, musically, when I worked in Country radio, back when Country radio still played Country. Hope you enjoy this tribute.
Her first minor hit was, "So Long, Charlie Brown, Don't Look For Me Around"...
As Long As There's A Sunday
They'll Never Take His Love From Me
When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
No One Will Ever Know
Help Me Make It Through The Night
Am I That Easy To Forget
I Can't Stop Loving You
Today I Started Loving You Again
Long Black Veil
Faded Love
Before The Next Teardrop Falls
Just Out Of Reach ( Of My Two Open Arms )
Norma Jean
Send Me The Pillow You Dream On
Lonely Street
TRIBUTE to SAMMI SMITH - by Sandy Holland (As Much As You)
As Long As There's A Sunday
They'll Never Take His Love From Me
When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
No One Will Ever Know
Help Me Make It Through The Night
Am I That Easy To Forget
I Can't Stop Loving You
Today I Started Loving You Again
Long Black Veil
Faded Love
Before The Next Teardrop Falls
Just Out Of Reach ( Of My Two Open Arms )
Norma Jean
Send Me The Pillow You Dream On
Lonely Street
TRIBUTE to SAMMI SMITH - by Sandy Holland (As Much As You)
Hope you enjoyed this tribute to Sammi Smith. If you did, please go out an buy her music, and call your local Country station and tell them you want to hear her music.
August 5, 1943 – February 12, 2005