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Smiley Lewis
Smiley Lewis is credited on 55 releases across 20 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1954–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
55
Pressings credited
20
Albums
8
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
Overton Amos Lemons (July 5, 1913 – October 7, 1966), known as Smiley Lewis, was an American New Orleans rhythm and blues singer and guitarist. The music journalist Tony Russell wrote that "Lewis was the unluckiest man in New Orleans. He hit on a formula for slow-rocking, small-band numbers like 'The Bells Are Ringing' and 'I Hear You Knocking' only to have Fats Domino come up behind him with similar music with a more ingratiating delivery. Lewis was practically drowned in Domino's backwash."
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
55 releases · 20 albums · active 1954–2023
- Performance · 85
- Production · 1
Studios: Joyway Studio · J & M Studio, New Orleans · Cosimo Recording Studio · Aquarius Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Wilmer X
- Ray Heindorf
- Owen Gray
- Barbra Streisand
- Smiley Lewis And His Sextet
- Elvis
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