Clarence "Pinetop" Smith (June 11, 1904 – March 15, 1929), was an American boogie-woogie style blues pianist. His hit tune "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" featured...
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touring. He recorded "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" at Sam Phillips's Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. The tune was written by Pinetop Smith, who created the original...
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1940–2021), blues singer and guitarist Pinetop Smith (Clarence Smith, 1904–1929), jazz pianist Clarence Smith (politician) (1849–1941), British Member...
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University Press), 1997, II, pp. 1118–1119 (ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2) Pinetop Smith "Alejandro García Caturla". Moldenhauer, Hans (1961). The Death of Anton...
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"Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" is a song initially recorded by Clarence "Pinetop" Smith on December 29, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois, and released by Vocalion...
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first boogie-woogie hit was "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" by Pinetop Smith, recorded in 1928 and first released in 1929. Smith's record was the first boogie-woogie...
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Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (category Bessie Smith songs)
either Bobby Leecan's or Bessie Smith's) are spoken rather than sung, by Pinetop Smith and Alberta Reynolds, to Pinetop's piano accompaniment. The song...
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(4:29) "You Don't Have to Go" – Jimmy Reed (4:09) "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" – Pinetop Smith (3:15) Pinetop Perkins, piano and vocals Little Mike, Wang harmonica...
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(1903–1977), blues musician, composer Pinetop Smith (1904–1929), boogie-woogie pianist Willie "Big Eyes" Smith (1936–2011), Grammy Award-winning musician...
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Huey "Piano" Smith (1934–2023), "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu", also accompanist on Frankie Ford's "Sea Cruise" Pinetop Smith (1904–1929)...
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sounds of American blues players such as Lead Belly, Albert Ammons, Pinetop Smith, and Eddie Lang, and taught himself to play the piano, guitar, and harmonica...
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Smalls (1918–2008) Clarence "Pinetop" Smith (1904–1929) Paul Smith (1922–2013) Sonelius Smith (born 1942) Willie "The Lion" Smith (1897–1973) Martial Solal...
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that girl with the red dress on", harkening back to "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie", Pinetop Smith's early boogie-woogie classic. "Mess Around" became a big...
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Mississippi" (Pinetop Perkins) "Kansas City" (Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller) "Five Long Years" (Eddie Boyd) "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" (Pinetop Smith) "Hi-Heel...
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father of black gospel music". "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" by Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, recorded on December 29, 1928, was one of the first hit "boogie woogie"...
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renowned early recordings of boogies were made in Chicago with Clarence Pinetop Smith, who might have been influenced by the brothers Hersal Thomas and George...
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by a boogie-woogie style that Ahmet Ertegun attributes to Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, who used to call out to dancers on the dance floor, telling them what...
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version of "Boogie Woogie", a song derived from "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" recorded in 1928 by Pinetop Smith. Barfield's song is considered the first country...
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signed or produced artists including, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Pinetop Smith, Leroy Carr, Frankie Jaxon, and Cow Cow Davenport, among others. Kapp...
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Recorded: January 24, 1941 Label: Decca 8525 1941 "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" Composer: Pinetop Smith Recorded: January 24, 1941 Label: Decca 8525 1941 "The...
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(6:19) "Kansas City" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) (9:30) "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" (C. "Pinetop" Smith) (4:59) "Mad Love" (I Want You To Love Me) (Willie Dixon)...
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Griggs Candler, American businessman, politician (b. 1851) March 15 – Pinetop Smith, African-American blues pianist (b. 1904) March 18 – William P. Cronan...
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features a descending arpeggio based on "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie", a piano-based piece recorded by Pinetop Smith in 1928. Music historian Larry Birnbaum...
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"Clara Smith", in Kernfeld 2002c, p. 608 Slide 1994, pp. 474–6 Oliver, Paul, "Mamie Smith", in Kernfeld 2002c, p. 615 Kernfeld, Barry, "Trixie Smith", in...
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Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of...
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Man" Walls Piano Red Huey "Piano" Smith Ron "Pigpen" McKernan Pinetop Burks Pinetop Perkins Pinetop Smith Pinetop Sparks Piney Brown Pink Anderson Polka...
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clarinettist (d. 1986) June 7 – Don Murray, clarinettist (d. 1929) June 11 – Pinetop Smith, jazz pianist (d. 1929) June 15 – Anna Mahler, musician and sculptor...
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"Black and Blue" and "Honeysuckle Rose" were published. March 15 – Pinetop Smith, American pianist (born 1904). June 2 – Don Murray, American clarinet...
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première in Berlin December 29 – Pinetop Smith records "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" in Chicago; released in 1929 (the year of Smith's death) it becomes the first...
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Sherman in Chicago. The earliest of the recordings, "Boogie Woogie" by Pinetop Smith and recorded by Count Basie, resulted after John Hammond had heard Basie's...
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