Production · Performance

Mike Smith

real name Michael Robert Smith

Mike Smith is credited on 1,759 releases across 356 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1960–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

Start your shelf →Open in app

1,759

Credits

356

Albums

7

Decades active

84

In collections

Biography

source

Showing the Discogs bio

British producer who worked mainly for Decca & CBS labels.
Born Barking, Essex, England 30 April 1935; died Camberley, Surrey, England 3 December 2011.
Do NOT confuse with the The Dave Clark Five's singer Mike Smith who also worked as a producer.
Known for turning down The Beatles and instead giving a recording contract to Brian Poole & The Tremeloes in 1962, He went on to record hits with The Tremeloes, The Applejacks, Dave Berry, Jeff Christie, Georgie Fame, The Love Affair, The Marmalade and others.
In 1964, he started his own UK production company Strand Records Ltd., also credited as Strand Records.
Smith later worked for GTO Records and in a record pressing factory, and he occasionally spoke at Beatle conventions.

Bio from Discogs

Credited work

1,759 releases · 356 albums · active 1960–2025

  • Production · 1,788
  • Performance · 144
  • Other credits · 14
  • Engineering · 2

Studios: Decca Studios · CBS Studios, New York · Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg · Maida Vale Studios

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

Around the web

See who really made the music.

Gatefold maps every producer, engineer, and player across your shelf — the credits no one else surfaces.

Start your shelf →

Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.