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Billy Dawn Smith

real name William Paul Smith

Billy Dawn Smith is credited on 773 releases across 196 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1953–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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773

Credits

196

Albums

8

Decades active

62

In collections

Biography

American vocalist, songwriter and arranger, born September 28, 1931, Brooklyn, New York; died November 26, 2018, at age 87.
Billy Dawn Smith did not meet with much success as a recording artist but was more successful as a songwriter and arranger.
In the early 1950s, he put together a vocal group known as The Billy Dawn Quartet that consisted of himself, his brother Tom, and two friends Donny Myles and Sonny Benton.

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Credited work

773 releases · 196 albums · active 1953–2024

  • Performance · 871
  • Production · 13
  • Other credits · 3

Studios: A&R Studios · Mastersound Studios, Atlanta · Embee (2) · Coastal Studios

Discography

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