Slim SMith - Toronto 66 album

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bonga
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Slim SMith - Toronto 66 album

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anyone ever heard this obscure record ? I'm curious how it sounds and who produced this first album from Smith.
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jordandance
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Re: Slim SMith - Toronto 66 album

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Yes. Credited to his proper name, Keith Smith. Stupid rare, and his first LP I believe.
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I get nothing but pure chills to listening to it.
Nicholas
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Apparently this is a mistake, which is repeated on many Slim Smith bios.

The Keith Smith on the "Toronto 66" album (label : "77 Records") is a jazz trumpeteer (March 19 1940; died January 4 2008).
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obitu ... 80245.html

http://www1.gemm.com/item/SMITH--KEITH- ... 811498342/

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jordandance
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The track my friend had on his mix sure sounded like Slim Smith...maybe it's a some MP3 titling error business and he ripped it? I'd never heard the track before.
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jordandance wrote:The track my friend had on his mix sure sounded like Slim Smith...maybe it's a some MP3 titling error business and he ripped it? I'd never heard the track before.
Maybe it's taken from rare white label singles. There are quite a lot of them from Smith ( I see them often on ebay), and there are also some singles credited to Keith Smith or Dakota Jim.
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I always assumed it's from this LP. Maybe not.
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SMITH Keith's AMERICA ALL STARS , Toronto '66 , 77 Records 77 LEU 12/30 , 1968 , UK LP , VG++/EX , price : € 28 , US trad jazz recorded live in Toronto in 196, with Capt John Handy, Pops Foster, Freddy Moore & Jimmy Archey. 1968 UK pressing with Albert McCarthy liner notes. Rare LP
This is the more I could find on the web. No tracklisting yet.

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jmatherton

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77 Records was run by Doug Dobell, who also owned Dobell's Records at 77 Charing Cross Road, hence the label's name. He issued exclusively jazz and blues, pressed in short runs; so yes it's rare, but no, it ain't Slim Smith.
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I have been collecting Jamaican music since 1971 and I have never before heard of this album by Slim Smith (who, incidentaly, in my opinion is the best vocalist to come out of Jamaica). Then again, who knows. I just recently collected some gems (ska and rocksteady) that were recorded between 1964 and 1968. Go figure.
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