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Roy Smeck

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Aliases
Prince Kalu and His Hawaiian Serenaders
Roy Smeck and His All Star Serenaders
Roy Smeck and his Hawaiian Serenaders
Roy Smeck & His Orchestra
Roy Smeck and His Paradise Islanders
Roy Smeck and his Paradise Serenaders
Roy Smeck and His Serenaders
Roy Smeck His Singing Guitar and Paradise Serenaders
Roy Smeck's Trio
Roy Smeck's Vita Trio
Roy Smeck's Vitaphone
Real name
Leroy Smeck
Born
February 6, 1900
Died
April 5, 1994
Country
United States
IPI
00028955648 1 work
Affiliation
ASCAP
Comments
A multi-instrumentalist on string instruments, Smeck had the nickname "Wizard of the Strings". Smeck also designed string instruments. From Reading, Pennsylvania, Smeck's career started in vaudeville. Because he was a poor vocalist, he included novelties in his act, for instance, playing the ukulele with his teeth. In 2001, Smeck was inducted into the National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame in the performance category.
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Title Performer Release date Originally by
listen on Internet Archive i 1931 W. Arlington
i 1959 Lou Gold with The Melody Man – Vocal Chorus, Murray Amster
i 1964 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive i   1962 Emma Carus PRF, Collins and Harlan REC
1930 Lew Bray
  April 1942 (unknown), Walter Huston and Gloria Warren BRD, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Ray Eberle REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive   1929 Ethel Waters BRD,REC,REL
1940 Ann Sheridan
1929 George Olsen and His Music
listen on Internet Archive May 1939 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by Charlie Wilson
i   1960 Bert Kaplan and His Collegians REC, George Olsen and His Music - Vocal Refrain by Bob Borger, Fran Frey, Bob Rice REL
i   August 1963 Xavier Cugat and His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Don Reid REC,REL, June Knight PRF
  1937 Jack Denny and His Orchestra - Vocal by Sonny Schuyler REC, Bing Crosby BRD
listen on Internet Archive   1937 Jack Denny and His Orchestra - Vocal by Sonny Schuyler REC, Bing Crosby BRD
i 1960 Shirley Ross
i 1961 Eva Puck and Sam White
1942 Frances Langford with Orchestra under direction of Victor Young
listen on Internet Archive   March 1936 Harriet Hilliard BRD, Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Harriet Hillard REC
listen on Internet Archive i 1962 Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Arthur Hall
i 1959 Fred Hamm and His Orchestra
i 1958 Billy Murray and Haydn Qartet with Orchestra
1931 Lloyd Keating and His Music [Fred Rich] – Vocal Chorus by Bill Coty
1940 Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Eddie Howard
listen on Internet Archive i   1962 Enric Madriguera and His Orchestra REL, Etta Moten BRD
listen on Internet Archive i 1953 Bentley Ball
1934 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive 1930 Roy Ingraham and His Orchestra
i 1964 The Bar Harbor Society Orchestra (Ben Selvin)
1966 Joanie Sommers with The Bobby Troup Sextet
listen on Internet Archive i   1962 Walter Woolf King PRF, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Chorus by Carmen Lombardo REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive 1939 Louise Terrell and George Wilton Ballard
1931 Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Johnny Marvin
i 1965 Ted Lewis and His Band
listen on Internet Archive June 1941 Ted Lewis and His Band
Faithful Forever Roy Smeck and His Serenaders - Vocal Chorus Frank Luther (Roy Smeck, Frank Luther) 1939 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive i 1931 Friars Society Orchestra
i 1959 Sam Lanin and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive i 1962 M.J. O'Connell
i 1958 New Mayfair Dance Orchestra (Ray Noble)
i 1964 Wayne King and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1938 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by Charles Wilson
November 1941 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by Marty McKenna
1940 (unknown), Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Frank Sinatra
  1966 Louis Armstrong and The All Stars REC, Carol Channing and David Hartman PRF
1966 Dinah Shore with Frank De Vol's Orchestra and Chorus
listen on Internet Archive   1932 Peter Van Steeden and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Dick Robertson REL, Harold Richards REC
i 1961 (unknown)
Honolulu Stars and Hawaiian Guitars Roy Smeck and His Serenaders March 1936 Unverified
1924 Marion Harris
i 1959 Mischa Elman
i 1960 The Boardwalk Orchestra (Ben Selvin)
listen on Internet Archive 1929 The Piccadilly Players [GB]
listen on Internet Archive 1936 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive I'll Always Be in Love with You Roy Smeck's Trio August 1929 Unverified
i 1958 Isham Jones, Guest Conductor with Ray Miller's Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Frank Bessinger
i 1960 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive   1930 Janet Gaynor BRD, Ed Lowry REC
i   1958 (unknown), Harry Fox REC,REL,PRF
i 1958 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
i In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town Roy Smeck and his Hawaiian Serenaders 1997 Unverified
1930 Whispering Jack Smith
listen on Internet Archive I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak Roy Smeck and His Serenaders, vocal chorus by Donald King (Roy Smeck, Dick Robertson) 1939 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive March 1939 Kay Kyser and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Harry Babbitt
i 1961 The Ambassadors [US2]
i 1960 John Boles and Jeanette Loff with Paul Whiteman and Orchestra
1936 Freddy Ellis and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Seymour Richards
listen on Internet Archive   1938 Fred Astaire with Ray Noble and His Orchestra REC,REL, Fred Astaire BRD
i 1961 The Peerless Quartet
listen on Internet Archive 1938 Joe Loss and His Band
i 1961 Arthur Fields
Just A Little Home For The Old Folks Roy Smeck's Trio – Vocal Refrain Dick Robertson (Dick Robertson, Roy Smeck) 1933 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive i June 1953 Franklyn Baur
i   1965 Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen) REC, Walter Catlett PRF
October 1941 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive 1940 Jimmie Davis
i 1961 Sam Lanin and His Famous Players
i 1961 Arthur C. Clough
i 1958 Campbell and Burr
i 1965 Gertrude Lawrence and Jack Buchanan
1930 Irving Kaufman
  1966 Anna Maria Alberghetti PRF,REL
listen on Internet Archive   1938 Jan Garber and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Russ Brown REC, Kenny Baker [US1] BRD
1930 Gloria Swanson
listen on Internet Archive i 1962 Ray Dorey – Orchestrated and conducted by Paul Baron
June 1941 Hermanos Castilla, Adolph Hofner and His Texans
listen on Internet Archive 1929 The Troubadours - Vocal Refrain by Lewis James
i 1958 Elizabeth Wheeler and Harry Anthony
listen on Internet Archive i June 1953 Harry McClaskey (Henry Burr)
listen on Internet Archive i   June 1953 Ethel Waters REC, Minto Cato PRF
listen on Internet Archive i June 1953 (unknown)
  1938 International Novelty Orchestra (Nathaniel Shilkret) REC, Jack Tenney and the Majestic Orchestra PRF
i 1958 Victor Military Band
i 1958 American Quartet with Orchestra
1930 Bud Billings—Carson Robison (Carson Robison, Frank Luther)
listen on Internet Archive August 1939 (unknown), Glenn Miller and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Ray Eberle
  1966 Audrey Hepburn BRD, Henry Mancini and His Orchestra and Chorus REC,REL
1966 Riz Ortolani e Nino Oliviero, Steve Lawrence
1924 Harry Raderman's Jazz Orchestra
i   1958 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL, "Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra REC
i 1965 Noelani Hawaiian Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1933 (unknown), Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees - Vocal Refrain by Rudy Vallée
My Ohio Home Roy Smeck's Trio – Vocal Chorus Ralph Haines May 1928 Unverified
My Ohio Home Hawaiian Solo (Roy Smeck) 1927 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive 1929 The Melody Three
listen on Internet Archive 1939 Joe Loss and His Band
1966 Melina Mercouri, Lyn Cornell - Accompaniment directed by Ian Fraser
1940 Harry James and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Frank Sinatra
1936 Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Charles Chester
1940 (unknown), (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive 1936 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Edyth Wright
Our Bungalow Of Dreams Hawaiian Solo (Roy Smeck) 1928 Unverified
i 1960 Judy Garland
listen on Internet Archive   1929 The Troubadours [Nathaniel Shilkret] – Vocal Refrain by Frank Munn REC,REL, Ramon Novarro BRD
i   1958 Pola Negri BRD, Leo Reisman and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Frances Maddux REC
  1928 Dolores Del Rio BRD, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive 1931 Ted Wallace & His Campus Boys (Ed Kirkeby)
listen on Internet Archive i   1953 Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Blackwell Lunsford REL, Carl T. Sprague REC
1966 John Laurenz with Orchestral Accompaniment
listen on Internet Archive 1936 Lew Stone and His Band
i 1960 Prince's Band
listen on Internet Archive 1932 (unknown)
1966 Matty Malneck and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1931 Miss Walton and Mr. Macdonough
i 1961 (unknown)
i 1965 Sophie Tucker
  1931 Ben Selvin & His Orchestra REL, Kentucky Mountain Boys [US2] REC
listen on Internet Archive 1929 Bob Haring and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive i 1962 Prince's Band
listen on Internet Archive   1938 Tony Martin [US1] BRD, Al Bowlly and His Orchestra REL, Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - Vocal Refrain by Carmen Lombardo REC
i 1959 Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
October 1936 George Hall and His Hotel Taft Orchestra
1937 Ted Fio Rito and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by The Debutantes and Muzzy Marcellino
listen on Internet Archive i 1962 Ben Bernie and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive i 1953 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Cliff Weston
listen on Internet Archive 1936 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Cliff Weston
listen on Internet Archive i   1962 Helen Clark–Lewis James REC, Phyllis Cleveland and Jack Barker PRF
listen on Internet Archive i   June 1953 Dorothy Lamour - Orchestra under direction of Cy Feuer REC, Bob Hope & Shirley Ross BRD
listen on Internet Archive i 1962 Anton Karas
1966 Anton Karas, Freddy Martin and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Merv Griffin and The Martin Men
i   1965 Elisabeth Welch and Chorus PRF, The Ambassadors [US2] REC, Arthur Gibbs and His Gang REL
October 1941 Gene Krupa and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Howard Du Lany
i 1964 Six Brown Brothers
listen on Internet Archive 1940 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye – Vocal Refrain by Clyde Burke and Chorus
i   1961 Paul Whiteman and His Ambassador Orchestra REL, Olive Kline REC
1930 George Olsen and His Music - Vocal Refrain by Bob Borger
listen on Internet Archive i June 1953 Lupita Palomera - Orquesta Gonzalo Curiel
  1931 Frank Crumit and Julia Sanderson BRD, Ted Wallace and His Campus Boys (Ed Kirkeby) REC
i 1961 Janet Velie and Jack McGowan
  1937 Bing Crosby with Orchestra under the direction of John Scott Trotter BRD, Mildred Bailey and Her Orchestra REC
listen on Internet Archive i 1953 Will Osborne and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Will Osborne
listen on Internet Archive 1938 Reggie Childs and His Orchestra
1966 Johnny Mandel
i 1960 Joseph Knecht's Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra
  1940 Woody Herman and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Woody Herman REL, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Frank Sinatra REC
1931 Wayne King and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ernie Birchill
i 1964 Edward Allen
i 1958 Richard Bold and Rosalind Fuller
i August 1963 Orquestra Colbaz
i 1964 Original Dixieland Jass Band
i 1961 Nick Lucas "The Crooning Troubadour"
listen on Internet Archive 1933 Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Kenneth Sargent
  1966 Jerry Orbach PRF,REL
listen on Internet Archive i June 1941 Isham Jones Orchestra
1936 Bing Crosby with Victor Young and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1937 Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy - Vocal Chorus by Pha Terrell
April 1931 Bud and Joe Billings (Carson Robison, Frank Luther)
listen on Internet Archive 1931 King Nawahi's Hawaiians
i When The Organ Played At Twilight Roy Smeck's Hawaiian Trio (Roy Smeck) February 1931 Unverified
i 1961 Jack Smith (The Whispering Baritone)
listen on Internet Archive 1931 Lester McFarland and Robert A. Gardner
i 1960 American Quartet
listen on Internet Archive   1939 John Payne BRD, Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by Clyde Burke REC
listen on Internet Archive 1939 Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra
i 1960 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
  1936 Jeanette MacDonald BRD, Bing Crosby with Victor Young and His Orchestra REC
i 1960 Archie Bleyer and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive May 1939 Artie Shaw and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Helen Forrest
listen on Internet Archive   1937 Tommy Dorsey & His Clambake Seven - Vocal Refrain by Edythe Wright REC, Alice Faye BRD
listen on Internet Archive i 1953 Gene Autry
1940 Marek Weber und sein Orchester - Solo: Marcel Wittrisch REL, Richard Tauber REC,PRF, Will Osborne and His Slide Music
listen on Internet Archive 1937 Dorothy Lamour - Orchestra under direction of Cy Feuer
i   1960 Earl Burtnett and His Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra REC, Charles King BRD