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Chanteur Country US né
Calvin Grant Shofner, le
7 Avril 1932 à Gans (Oklahoma). Cal Smith est décédé le 10 Octobre 2013 à
Branson (Missouri).
Singer Cal
Smith emerged from Ernest
Tubb's band and enjoyed several hits of his own between the late '60s and
mid-'70s. His best-known song was the sentimental "Country Bumpkin," but his
gritty baritone voice was equally suited to more acid material such as "The Lord
Knows I'm Drinking," a sharp denunciation of small-town religious
self-righteousness. Smith was born Calvin Grant Shofner in Oklahoma but grew up
in the San Francisco Bay area. A guitar player since childhood, he spent time
with rodeo performers as a teen and began to think about a show-business career.
With the support of his parents, who believed he was less likely to get into
trouble on stage rather than in the audience area of a barroom, he began playing
professionally when he was 15, at a bar called The Remember Me Cafe. He was paid
a dollar and 50 cents a night plus dinner, and his listeners were mostly migrant
California vineyard workers.
It was a long time before Smith could make a living playing music, however, and
he did jobs ranging from truck driver to bronco buster during the 1950s. He was
briefly married, but when his wife made him choose between music and her, Smith chose
the former. (He later married again, with more durable results.) Smith appeared
on the California Hayride television program soon after its inception in the mid-'50s.
He did a two-year stint in the military and returned to the Bay Area after his
discharge, working as a DJ at San Jose radio station KEEN and performing around
the area in a band whose membership included Bill Drake, the brother of one of Ernest
Tubb's Texas Troubadors. Tubb heard
him play and following an audition hired him as a rhythm guitarist and MC in
1961. Several of Tubb's
'60s hits feature Smith's playing. At that time he was still using the name
Grant Shofner; his stage name gained currency after Tubb helped
him land his first solo recording contract with Kapp Records in 1966. That year
he released his first single, "I'll Just Go Home." He made his first chart entry
with his sophomore effort, "The Only Thing I Want," which made it to the Top 60,
and when "Drinking Champagne" (1968) cracked the Top 40, Smith left Tubb to
focus on his own career. During his several years with Kapp he had eight more
moderate hits, including "Heaven Is Just a Touch Away."
In late 1970 Smith signed with Decca, and material from Nashville's top writers
began to come his way. In 1972 made it to the Top Five with what might be called
the anti-sentimental breakup song "I've Found Someone of My Own," and a few
months later he scored his first number one hit with the Bill
Anderson composition "The Lord Knows I'm Drinking," which also crossed over
to become a minor pop hit. His next few singles did not do as well, but in 1974
he scored his second number one hit with "Country Bumpkin," a Don Wayne-penned
tune that became Smith's signature song and a radio staple for years to come.
Later that year he had his third number one, "It's Time to Pay the Fiddler." He
continued appearing on the charts through 1979, switching to the MCA label for
such releases as "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire." After the main phase
of his recording career ended, Smith became an investor in the Nashville Sounds
minor-league baseball team. He re-emerged briefly in 1986 on the
tradition-oriented Step One label with the album Stories of Life by Cal Smith.
Cal Smith died on October 10, 2013 in Branson (Missouri).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Smith
Talents : Vocals, Guitar
Style musical : Country Pop, Honky Tonk, Traditional Country
Tear Stained Pillow
(1960)
Silver Dew On
The Bluegrass Tonight
(1966)
STRANGER IN THE HOUSE
(1966)
I'll Sail My
Ship Alone (1967)
Jacksonville
(1968)
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Years in activity :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
Singles
| 03/1960 | SP PLAID PL-103 (US) | . | Eleven Long
Years /
Tear Stained Pillow
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| 03/1966 | SP KAPP K-748 (US) | . |
Silver Dew On
The Bluegrass Tonight
/ I'll Just Go On Home |
| 11/1966 | SP KAPP K-788 (US) | . |
Stranger In The
House
/ Only Thing I Want |
| 04/1967 | SP KAPP K-834 (US) | . | I'll Never Be Lonesome With You / If I Had My Life To Live Over |
| 07/1967 | SP KAPP K-851 (US) | . |
I'll Sail My
Ship Alone
/ You're Not Drowning Your Heartache |
| 12/1967 | SP KAPP K-884 (US) | . | Destination Atlanta GA / Did She Ask About Me |
| 05/1968 | SP KAPP K-913 (US) | . |
Jacksonville
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Love You A Thousand Ways |
| 09/1968 | SP KAPP K-938 (US) | . | Drinking Champagne / Honky Tonk Blues |
| 1968 | SP KAPP HK 115 (NL) |
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I'll Sail My
Ship Alone
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| 01/1969 | SP KAPP K-960 (US) | . | Empty Arms / So Much To Do |
| 05/1969 | SP KAPP K-994 (US) | . | It Takes Me All Night Long / Daddy's Arms |
| 08/1969 | SP KAPP K-2037 (US) | . | At The Sight Of You / You Can't Housebreak A Tomcat |
| 11/1969 | SP KAPP K-2059 (US) | . | Heaven Is Just A Touch Away / I Overlooked An Orchid |
| 03/1970 | SP KAPP K-2076 (US) | . | My Happiness Goes Off / Difference Between Going And Really Gone |
| 1970 | SP KAPP Winners Circle Series KJB-99 (US) | . |
Drinking Champagne / It Takes Me All Night Long |
| 12/1970 | SP DECCA 32768 (US) | . | That's What It's Like To Be Lonesome / Only Girl In The Game |
| 04/1971 | SP DECCA 32815 (US) | . | Free Streets / Going Home To My Time |
| 09/1971 | SP DECCA 32878 (US) | . | To Save My Wife / Woman On The Inside |
| 04/1972 | SP DECCA 32959 (US) | . | I've Found Someone Of My Own / Lights Of The Living |
| 08/1972 | SP DECCA 33003 (US) | . | For My Baby / A Handfull Of Stars |
| 11/1972 | SP DECCA 33040 (US) | . | Lord Knows I'm Drinking / Sweet Things I Remember About You |
| 05/1973 | SP MCA 40061 (US) | . | I Can Feel The Leavin' Coming On / I've Loved You All Over The World |
| 1973 | SP MCA 60053 (US) | . | Drinking Champagne / It Takes Me All Night Long |
| 10/1973 | SP MCA 40136 (US) | . | Bleep You / One Hour And A Six Pack |
| 02/1974 | SP MCA 40191 (US) | . | Country Bumpkin / It's Not The Miles You Traveled |
| 06/1974 | SP MCA 40265 (US) | . | Between Lust And Watching TV / Some Kind Of A Woman |
| 11/1974 | SP MCA 40335 (US) | . | It's Time To Pay The Fiddler / Love Is The Foundation |
| 03/1975 | SP MCA 40394 (US) | . | She Talked A Lot About Texas / Baby's Gone |
| 09/1975 | SP MCA 40467 (US) | . | Jason's Farm / You Slip Into My Mind |
| 01/1976 | SP MCA 40517 (US) | . | Thunderstorms / 19 Years And 1800 Miles |
| 05/1976 | SP MCA 40563 (US) | . | Mac Arthur's Hand / Sunday Morning Christian |
| 09/1976 | SP MCA 40618 (US) | . | Woman Don't Try To Sing My Song / I Play A Man |
| 01/1977 | SP MCA 40671 (US) | . | Feelin' The Weight Of My Chains / I Just Came Home To Count The Memories |
| 04/1977 | SP MCA 40714 (US) | . | Come See About Me / In Crowd |
| 1977 | SP MCA 60171 (US) | . | Lord Knows I'm Drinking / I've Found Someone Of My Own |
| 08/1977 | SP MCA 40789 (US) | . | Helen / I'm Forty Now |
| 11/1977 | SP MCA 40839 (US) | . | Throwin' Memories On The Fire / Tabernacle Tom |
| 02/1978 | SP MCA 40864 (US) | . | Ghost Of Jim Bob Wilson / I'm Just A Farmer |
| 06/1978 | SP MCA 40911 (US) | . | Bits And Pieces Of Life / Leona |
| 12/1978 | SP MCA 40982 (US) | . | Rise And Fall Of The Roman Empire / Oklahoma Twister |
| 03/1979 | SP MCA 41001 (US) | . | One Little Skinny Rib / I Fed Her Love |
| 09/1979 | SP MCA 41128 (US) | . | Room At The Top Of The Stairs / Happy Anniversary |
| 1979 | SP MCA 60187 (US) | . | Country Bumpkin / Thunderstorms |
| 05/1982 | SP SOUNDWAVES NSD-SW-4678 (US) | . | If I Ever Need A Lady (with Billy PARKER) / I Have What's Last (with Billy PARKER) |
| 09/1982 | SP SOUNDWAVES NSD-SW-4686 (US) | . | Too Many Irons In The Fire (with Billy PARKER) / Honky Tonk Girl (with Billy PARKER) |
| 04/1986 | SP STEP ONE SOR-353 (US) | . | I Know It's Not Over / Bein' Gone |
| 08/1986 | SP STEP ONE SOR-358 (US) | . | King Lear / Country Bumpkin |
| 1989 | SP MCA 53590 (US) | . | Country Bumpkin / Lord Knows I'm Drinking |
| 198? | SP SUNRIZE 130 (US) | . | Take The Time To Love Somebody / Baby Can You Love Me Like She Used To |
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Albums
| 03/1966 | LP 12" KAPP KL-1504 (mono) / KS-3504 (stereo) (US) |
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ALL THE WORLD IS LONELY NOW - All The World Is Lonely Now / Swinging Doors / Take My Word / Only Thing I Want / I'd Rather Be Alone / Love Has A Friend / Stranger In The House / Try Me One More Time / Shenandoah Waltz / Glass Of Pride / She Told Me So / I'm Left Cause She Was Right |
| 07/1967 | LP 12" KAPP KL-1537 (mono) / KS-3537 (stereo) (US) |
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GOIN' TO CAL'S PLACE - I'll Sail My Ship Alone / I'll Never Be Lonesome / I Didn't Jump The Fence / Sam's Place / I Guess I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night / Five Minutes In The Arms / Bottle Let Me Down / If I Had My Life To Live Over / Big Ole Hurt / Sweet Things I Remember About You / Won't Somebody Please Kiss My Sweet Thing / Thanks A Lot For Trying |
| 01/1968 | LP 12" KAPP KL-1544 (mono) / KS-3544 (stereo) (US) |
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TRAVELIN' MAN - Destination Atlanta GA / I Threw Away The Rose / Afraid To Care / Oklahoma / I Wish I Could Say No To You / You're Not Drowing Your Heartache / Shotgun Boogie / I Don't See How I Can Make It / Did She Ask About Me / Alone And Broke In Birmingham / I'll Just Go On Home / I Took Her For A Fool |
| 06/1968 | LP 12" KAPP KS-3564 (US) |
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AT HOME WITH CAL - Jacksonville / Drinking Champagne / I Heard You Crying In Your Sleep / That's All That's Left Of My Baby / You Were Only Teasing Me / Message / Every Night You Make My Day / Home Wasn't Built In A Day / Honky Tonk Blues / I Love You A Thousand Ways / Let's Turn Back The Years |
| 12/1968 | LP 12" KAPP KS-3585 (US) |
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DRINKING CHAMPAGNE - Empty Arms / Next In Line / So Much To Do / Love Me Love Me / Santa In July / Drinking Champagne / Today I Started Loving You Again / Loser's Lounge / Worst Of Luck / When You Are Gone / It's All Over But The Crying |
| 08/1969 | LP 12" KAPP KS-3608 (US) |
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CAL SMITH SINGS IT TAKES ME ALL NIGHT LONG - I Come Home A Drinkin' / Ballad Of Forty Dollars / Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn / Life Of The Party Charlie / When Two Worlds Collide / At The Sight Of You / It Takes Me All Night Long / Darling You Know I Wouldn't Lie / She's Lookin' Better By The Minute / I Don't Get No Better Without You / Old Faithful |
| 08/1970 | LP 12" KAPP KS-3628 (US) |
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COUNTRY HIT PARADE - All I Have To Offer You Is Me / Workin' Man Blues / Okie From Muskogee / Daddy Sang Bass / Homecoming / I Love You More Today / Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town / To See My Angel Cry / One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) / Hungry Eyes / A Boy Named Sue |
| 01/1971 | LP 12" KAPP KS-3642 (US) |
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THE BEST OF CAL SMITH - Drinking Champagne / You Can't Housebreak A Tomcat / Destination Atlanta GA / I'll Sail My Ship Alone / Silver Dew On The Blue Grass Tonight / Heaven Is Just A Touch Away / It Takes Me All Night Long / So Much To Do / Jacksonville / I'll Just Go On Home / Only Thing I Want / Difference Between Going And Really Gone |
| 09/1972 | LP 12" DECCA DL 7-5369 (US) |
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I'VE FOUND SOMEONE OF MY OWN - I've Found Someone Of My Own / Handful Of Stars / Song Sung Blue / Sweet Things I Remember About You / Lord Knows I'm Drinking / I Love You More Today / For My Baby / Empty Arms / Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay / That's What It's Like To Be Lonesome / Ballad Of Forty Dollars |
| 07/1973 | LP 12" MCA MCA-344 (US) |
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CAL SMITH - I've Loved You All Over The World / Hour And A Six-Pack / Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through) / Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues / I Can't Wait To Dream That Dream Again / I Can Feel The Leavin' Coming On / Bleep You / I Can't Keep My Hands Off Of You / It's Not The Miles You Traveled / Heaven Is Just A Touch Away / The Green Door |
| 1973 | LP 12" CORAL CB-20008 (US) |
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SWINGING DOORS - Try Me One More Time / Message / Thanks A Lot For Trying Anyway / I Took Her For A Fool / Swinging Doors / Shotgun Boogie / I Didn't Jump The Fence / I Love You A Thousand Ways / When Two Worlds Collide / Okie From Muskogee |
| 05/1974 | LP 12" MCA MCA-424 (US) |
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COUNTRY BUMPKIN - Country Bumpkin / Love Is The Foundation / I Love / They Don't Make 'em Like My Daddy / Between Lust And Watching TV / Amanda / Behind Closed Doors / Jesus Is Good Ole Boy / You've Never Been This Far Before / I Just Came Home To Count The Memories / Some Kind Of A Woman |
| 01/1975 | LP 12" MCA MCA-467 (US) |
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IT'S TIME TO PAY THE FIDDLER - It's Time To Pay The Fiddler / Baby's Gone / Infinity / Heart Of The Matter / Brother Jack / I Didn't Even Cry / She Talked A Lot About Texas / I'll Remember Her That Way / Mary Would Have Wanted It That Way / I Sure Hate To See Me Go / Drinking Champagne |
| 06/1975 | LP 12" MCA MCA-485 (US) |
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MY KIND OF COUNTRY - You Slip Into My Mind / Ghost Of Jim Bob Wilson / My Elusive Dreams / When I Hear The Wind Blows / Mama's Face / Tobernaclo Tom, Julie / Linda On My Mind / Games That Daddys Play / When A Wino Has A Home |
| 1975 | LP 12" MCA MCF-2714 (UK) |
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Introducing Cal Smith - Country Bumpkin / Love Is The Foundation / I Love / Between Lust And Watching TV / Behind Closed Doors / You've Never Been This Far Before / Some Kind Of A Woman / Baby's Gone / It's Time To Pay The Fiddler / Infinity / The Heart Of The Matter / I Didn't Even Cry / She Talked A Lot About Texas / Mary Would Have Wanted It That Way / I Sure Hate To See Me Go / Drinking Champagne |
| 1975 | LP 12" MCA MCF-2740 (UK) |
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Cal’s Country - Jason‘s Farm / You Slip Into My Mind / The Ghost Of Jim Bob Wilson / My Elusive Dreams / When I Hear The Wind Blow / Mama‘s Face / Tabernacle Tom / Julie / (Lying Here With) Linda On My Mind / The Games That Daddies Play / An Hour And A Six-Pack / I Can Feel The Leavin Coming On / Even A Wino Has A Home |
| 01/1976 | LP 12" MCA MCA-2172 (US) |
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JASON'S FARM - Jason's Farm / 19 Years And 1800 Miles / One Run For The Roses / Talking To Your Memory Again / Mac Arthur's Hand / Thunderstorm / Sunday Morning Christian / I've Had You / Don't Worry About The Runt Lord / First Time |
| 04/1977 | LP 12" MCA MCA-2266 (US) |
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I JUST COME HOME TO COUNT THE MEMORIES - I Just Come Home To Count The Memories / Woman Don't Try To Sing My Song / Feelin' The Weight Of My Chains / After The Thrill Is Gone / Son Run To The Spring / Come See About Me / Oklahoma Twister / In Crowd / Anita You're Dreaming / Till Then / Molly Ann |
| 1983 | LP 12" 51-WEST Q-17224 (US) |
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TURN ME LOOSE - They Don't Make'em Like My Daddy / Burgers And Fries / Amanda / Have You Ever Been Lonely / Big City / Wrong Road Again / San Antonio Rose / Walking The Floor Over You / My Favorite Memory / For The Good Times |
| 1986 | LP 12" STEP ONE SOR-0011 (US) |
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STORIES OF LIFE - Nobody Will Ever Take Your Place / Birds And Children Fly Away / I Know It's Over / Country Bumpkin / North Alabama / Lorene / I Think That I'd Be Better Off / Mobile Bay / Snow's Almost Over / Bein' Gone / King Lear / Lucy Needs A Friend |
| 06/1998 | CD FIRST GENERATION FGC-103 (US) |
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CAL SMITH - Arizona Whiz / Together Again / You Should See Me Now / Bring Me My Memories In Person / Lord Knows I'm Drinking / I've Found Someone Of My Own / Drinking Champagne / North Won The War Again Last Night / Country Bumpkin / It's Time To Pay The Fiddler |
| 1999 | CD FIRST GENERATION 1977 (US) |
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Ernest Tubb - Cal Smith - Together - Thanks A Lot / Walkin' The Floor / Driftwood On The River / Filipino Baby / I'll Step Aside / Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello / Waltz Across Texas / Try Me One More Time / Soldiers Last Letter / Drivin' Nails In My Coffin |
| 03/2007 | CD GUSTO GT-2017-2 (US) |
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Country Bumpkin (Good Time) - Country Bumpkin / Bein' Gone (Or Being Game) / Birds And Children Fly Away / I Know It's Not Over / Lorene / Nobody Will Ever Take Your Place / King Lear / I Think That I'd Be Better Off / Mobile Bay / Lacy Needs A Friends |
| 12/2009 | CD Hux HUX110 (UK) |
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The Best Of Cal Smith - Jason's Farm / The Ghost Of Jim Bob Wilson / An Hour And A Six Pack / Thunderstorms / Country Bumpkin / Between Lust And Watching T.V. / It's Time To Pay The Fiddler / She Talked A Lot About Texas / Drinking Champagne / Bit's And Pieces Of Life / Helen / I Just Came Home To Yount The Memories / Macarthurs Hand / Lord Knows I'm Drinking / Throwin' Memorieson The Fire / Woman Don't Try To Sing My Song |
| 12/2010 | CD Hux HUX 120 (UK) |
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My Kind Of Country - I Just Came Home To Count The Memories - You Slip Into My Mind / The Ghost Of Jim Bob Wilson / My Elusive Dreams / When I Hear The Wind Blow / Mama's Face / Tabernacle Tom / Julie / Linda On My Mind / The Games That Daddies Play / Even A Wino Has A Home / I Just Came Home To Count The Memories / Woman Don't Try To Sing My Song / Feelin' The Weight Of My Chains / After The Thrill Is Gone / Son, Run To The Spring / Come See About Me / Oklahoma Twister / The In Crowd / Anita, You're Dreaming / Till When / Molly Ann |
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