Performance · Production
Claydes Smith
Jersey City, United States
Claydes Smith is credited on 1,356 releases across 550 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1970–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,356
Pressings credited
550
Albums
6
Decades active
1,176
In collections
Biography
Claydes "Charles" Smith (born Claydes Eugene Smith; September 6, 1948 – June 20, 2006) was an American musician best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of the group Kool & the Gang.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
1,356 releases · 550 albums · active 1970–2025
- Performance · 1,781
- Production · 51
- Other credits · 34
Studios: Mediasound · The Hit Factory · Soundtrack Studios · Compass Point Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Illmatic
1994
Saturday Night Fever (The Original Movie Sound Track)
1977
Ready To Die
1994
Midnight Marauders
1993
Pulp Fiction (Music From The Motion Picture)
1994
Voodoo
2000
To The 5 Boroughs
2004
All Eyez On Me
1996
The Anthology
1999
Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time And Space)
1993
Greatest Hits
1998
Celebrate!
1980
Fishscale
2006
Special
2022
Emergency
1984
Welcome 2 America
2021
I Am...
1999
janet.
1993
Ladies' Night
1979
Game Theory
2006
Blank Face LP
2016
Erotica
1992
Amplified
1999
Whut? Thee Album
1992
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Kool & The Gang
- Robert Palmer
- Kool And The Gang
- Kylie
- Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince
- Nas
- Luniz
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