If You Knew
O. C. Smith - Love Changes (Southbay Records SB 1001) 1982
I Betcha; If You Knew; Love Changes; Girl; Got To Know; That's One For Love; You're Still My Lady; We're Making Love, We're Making Music; I'm Glad That I Fell In Love With You.
Produced by: H.B. Barnum
It's got to be his best album, not one poor track on the set, produced by H.B. Barnum, Kevin Brandon on bass, David T. Walker who recorded my Basement Soul Show radio theme music is on guitar, he played for Martha Reeves touring band for some years. Every time I play the album I have a new favorite track. Today it's If You Knew. Other stunning tracks on this album are I Betcha, Got To Know We're Making Love... and That's One For Love.
His collectables are Whatcha Gonna Do £20, Colour Him Father £10 , On Easy Street, Stormy and I Am Your Man.
Born Ocie Lee Smith, 21 June 1932, Mansfield, Louisiana, USA, d. 23 November 2001, Los Angeles, California, USA. O.C. Smith was raised in Los Angeles, where he began singing jazz and standards in clubs at the end of the 40s.
After serving five years in the US Air Force, he signed with Cadence Records in 1956, enjoying some success the following year with the sophisticated Lighthouse. He remained predominantly a club performer until 1961, when he replaced Joe Williams in the Count Basie Band.
He resumed his solo career in 1963, finally attaining a commercial breakthrough in 1968 with Dallas Frazier's unusual story-song, The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp, recorded at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, and a major hit in Britain.
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