Jack Smith (vocalist : baritone vocal)

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