Jack Smith (vocalist : baritone vocal)

Jack Smith as pictured in a Victor catalog

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Matrixes marked with indicate recordings are available for online listening.


Also known as: Whispering Jack Smith
Note on name: Billed as the "Whispering Baritone," perhaps in competition with Columbia recording star Art Gillham, the "Whispering Pianist." In his earliest (trial) recordings for Victor, Jack Smith is listed as the "Whispering Pianist."

Matrix No.
First Recording Date
Title
Primary Performer
Description
 
BVE-33383 9/15/1925 Cecilia
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-33384 9/15/1925 I care for her and she cares for me
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-33397 9/21/1925 I'm knee deep in daisies (and head over heels in love)
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-33398 9/21/1925 Feelin' kind o' blue
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-33399 9/21/1925 Loud speakin' papa (you'd better speak easy to me)
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-33848 11/4/1925 Some other bird whistled a tune
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with whistling and piano (takes 4-7)
 
BVE-33849 11/4/1925 What did I tell ya? (That's her, that's her)
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-33895 11/24/1925 Are you sorry?
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-33896 11/24/1925 I wanna go where you go, do what you do (then I'll be happy)
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-34398 2/5/1926 When autumn leaves are falling
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-34399 2/5/1926 I don't believe it, but say it again
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-34600 2/5/1926 Don't be a fool, you fool
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano (self-accompaniment)
 
BVE-34638 2/19/1926 Pretty little baby
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano (self-accompaniment)
 
BVE-34639 2/19/1926 Poor papa (he's got nothin' at all)
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano (self-accompaniment)
 
BVE-34683 3/5/1926 Gimme a little kiss (will ya? Huh?)
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-34684 3/5/1926 I'd climb the highest mountain if I knew I'd find you
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-35350 4/28/1926 When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbin' along
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano (self-accompaniment)
 
BVE-35351 4/28/1926 To-night's my night with baby
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano (self-accompaniment)
 
BVE-35352 4/28/1926 Talking to the moon
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano (self-accompaniment)
 
BVE-36342 9/22/1926 I'm on my way home
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-36343 9/22/1926 Baby face
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-36377 10/1/1926 That's a good girl
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-36378 10/1/1926 Precious
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-36886 10/30/1926 No one but you knows how to love
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with 2 pianos
 
BVE-36887 10/30/1926 I'm tellin' the bird, tellin' the bees (how I love you)
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with 2 pianos
 
BVE-36888 10/30/1926 There ain't no maybe in my baby's eyes
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with 2 pianos
 
BVE-36992 12/2/1926 Clap yo' hands
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-37177 12/23/1926 So will I
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano (self-accompaniment)
 
BVE-37178 12/23/1926 If I didn't know your husband and you didn't know my wife
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano (self-accompaniment)
 
BVE-38222 3/18/1927 It's just because I'm falling in love with you
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-38223 3/18/1927 My Sunday girl
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-38224 3/18/1927 I've never seen a straight banana
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-38225 3/18/1927 My idea of heaven (is to be in love with you)
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-38702 4/28/1927 Where the wild, wild flowers grow
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-38703 4/28/1927 Rosy cheeks
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-38704 4/28/1927 Me and my shadow
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-38705 4/28/1927 Oo! Golly ain't she cute?
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-38706 4/28/1927 You won't see me, if I see you (with anybody else at all)
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-39378 10/28/1927 Where have you been all my life
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano (self-accompaniment)
 
BVE-39379 10/28/1927 The best things in life are free
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano (self-accompaniment)
 
BVE-39380 10/28/1927 Play-ground in the sky
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano (self-accompaniment)
 
BVE-39381 11/1/1927 For my baby
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-40509 10/25/1927 The song is ended (but the melody lingers on)
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano (self-accompaniment)
 
BVE-40510 10/25/1927 There must be somebody else
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano (self-accompaniment)
 
BVE-40511 10/25/1927 I'll be lonely
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano (self-accompaniment)
 
BVE-49946 2/13/1929 Glad rag doll
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-49947 2/13/1929 Sweet forget-me-not
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-51658 4/24/1929 I kiss your hand, madame
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-51659 4/24/1929 She's a new kind of old-fashioned girl
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-51667 4/30/1929 From sunrise to sunset (from sunset 'til dawn)
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-51690 5/8/1929 To be in love (espesh'lly with you)
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-53999 8/20/1929 I'm just a vagabond lover
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
PBVE-54769 4/24/1930 When you look in my eyes
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
PBVE-54770 4/24/1930 You may not like it (But it's a great idea)
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
PBVE-54820 5/20/1930 'Leven-thirty Saturday night
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
PBVE-54821 5/20/1930 Where can you be
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
PBVE-54831 5/23/1930 I'm a slave, a slave to love
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-55812 8/28/1929 Then you've never been blue
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-55813 8/28/1929 You wanted me, I wanted you
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-56100 8/20/1929 Mistakes
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with orchestra
 
BVE-57122 10/25/1929 On the road to Rainbow Bay
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with pianos
 
BVE-57123 10/25/1929 Congratulations
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with pianos
 
[Trial 1925-08-28-08] 8/28/1925 Alone at last
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
[Trial 1925-08-28-09] 8/28/1925 My sweetie turned me down
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano
 
BVE-Test-187 7/30/1929 Who conquers the mighty Benkei
Jack Smith
Male vocal solo, with piano