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In 1984, Smith was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Alabama_Jazz_Hall_of_Fame" title="Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame">Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Smith&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United_States" title="Great Depression in the United States">Great Depression</a>, Smith's family moved from <a href="/wiki/Birmingham,_Alabama" title="Birmingham, Alabama">Birmingham, Alabama</a>, where Smith was born,<sup id="cite_ref-Larkin50_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larkin50-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> through several cities, ending up in <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Maine" title="Portland, Maine">Portland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CSIndy.com_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSIndy.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smith taught himself to play guitar in pawnshops, which let him play in exchange for keeping the guitars in tune. At thirteen years of age he was teaching others to play the guitar. One of Smith's students bought a new guitar and gave him his old guitar, which became the first guitar Smith owned.<sup id="cite_ref-CSIndy.com_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSIndy.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smith joined Uncle Lem and the Mountain Boys, a local hillbilly band that travelled around Maine, performing at dances, fairs, and similar venues. Smith earned four dollars a night. He dropped out of high school to accommodate this enterprise.<sup id="cite_ref-CSIndy.com_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSIndy.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Having become increasingly interested in the jazz bands that he heard on the radio, Smith gradually moved away from country music towards playing jazz. He left The Mountain Boys when he was eighteen years old to join a variety trio called the Airport Boys.<sup id="cite_ref-Flanagan_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Flanagan-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 10">: 10 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_experience">Military experience</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Smith&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Military experience"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Having learned to fly from pilots he befriended, Smith enlisted in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces" title="United States Army Air Forces">United States Army Air Forces</a> in the hopes of becoming a military pilot.<sup id="cite_ref-CSIndy.com_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSIndy.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was invalidated from the flight programme because of imperfect vision in his left eye.<sup id="cite_ref-CSIndy.com_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSIndy.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-fenderplayersclub_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fenderplayersclub-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Given a choice between joining the military band and being sent to mechanic's school, Smith opted to join the military band. Smith claimed that they gave him a cornet, an <a href="/wiki/Arban_method" class="mw-redirect" title="Arban method">Arban's instructional book</a>, and two weeks to meet the standard, which included being able to read music.<sup id="cite_ref-CSIndy.com_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSIndy.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-fenderplayersclub_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fenderplayersclub-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Determined not to go to mechanic's school, Smith spent the two weeks practicing the cornet in the latrine, as recommended by the bandleader, and passed the examination.<sup id="cite_ref-CSIndy.com_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSIndy.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-fenderplayersclub_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fenderplayersclub-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Smith&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An extremely diverse musician, Johnny Smith was equally at home playing in the <a href="/wiki/Birdland_(jazz_club)" class="mw-redirect" title="Birdland (jazz club)">Birdland jazz club</a> or sight-reading scores in the orchestral pit of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Philharmonic" title="New York Philharmonic">New York Philharmonic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Larkin50_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larkin50-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg" title="Arnold Schoenberg">Schoenberg</a> to <a href="/wiki/Gershwin" class="mw-redirect" title="Gershwin">Gershwin</a> to originals, Smith was one of the most versatile guitarists of the 1950s. </p><p>As a staff studio guitarist and arranger for NBC from 1946 to 1951, and on a freelance basis thereafter until 1958, Smith played in a variety of settings from solo to full orchestra and had his own trio, The Playboys, with <a href="/wiki/Mort_Lindsey" title="Mort Lindsey">Mort Lindsey</a> and Arlo Hults.<sup id="cite_ref-Flanagan_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Flanagan-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 26">: 26 </span></sup> His playing is characterized by <a href="/wiki/Close_and_open_harmony" title="Close and open harmony">closed-position chord voicings</a> and rapidly ascending lines (reminiscent of <a href="/wiki/Django_Reinhardt" title="Django Reinhardt">Django Reinhardt</a>, but more <a href="/wiki/Diatonic_and_chromatic" title="Diatonic and chromatic">diatonic</a> than <a href="/wiki/Diatonic_and_chromatic" title="Diatonic and chromatic">chromatically</a>-based). </p><p>Smith's most critically acclaimed recording was of the song "<a href="/wiki/Moonlight_in_Vermont_(song)" title="Moonlight in Vermont (song)">Moonlight in Vermont</a>", and featured tenor saxophonist <a href="/wiki/Stan_Getz" title="Stan Getz">Stan Getz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Larkin50_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Larkin50-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The single was the second most popular jazz record in <i><a href="/wiki/DownBeat" title="DownBeat">DownBeat</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s readers' poll for 1952.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Flanagan_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Flanagan-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 43">: 43 </span></sup> Initially released as a track on the 10-inch LP <i>Jazz at NBC</i> (Roost RLP 410), "Moonlight in Vermont" was later made the title track of a <a href="/wiki/Moonlight_in_Vermont_(album)" title="Moonlight in Vermont (album)">1956 12 inch LP</a>. From 1952 and into the 1960s he recorded for the <a href="/wiki/Roost_Records" title="Roost Records">Roost</a> label, on whose releases his reputation mainly rests. <a href="/wiki/Mosaic_Records" title="Mosaic Records">Mosaic Records</a> issued the majority of them in an 8-CD set in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His best known musical composition is the track "<a href="/wiki/Walk,_Don%27t_Run_(song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Walk, Don't Run (song)">Walk Don't Run</a>", written for a 1954<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> recording session as a <a href="/wiki/Contrafact" title="Contrafact">contrafact</a> to "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise". Guitarist <a href="/wiki/Chet_Atkins" title="Chet Atkins">Chet Atkins</a> covered the track, recording a neo-classical rendition of the song on the electric guitar for his <i><a href="/wiki/Hi_Fi_in_Focus" class="mw-redirect" title="Hi Fi in Focus">Hi Fi in Focus</a></i> album which preceded the Ventures' hit by three years. He played his arrangement fingerstyle, including the bass notes A, G, F, and E which later became the basis for the Ventures' arrangement. The musicians who became <a href="/wiki/The_Ventures" title="The Ventures">The Ventures</a> heard the Atkins version, simplified it, sped it up, and recorded it in 1960. The Ventures' version went to No. 2 on the <i>Billboard</i> Top 100 for a week in September 1960. </p><p>In 1957, Smith's wife died in childbirth, along with his second child. He sent his young daughter to Colorado Springs, Colorado to be cared for temporarily by his mother, and the following year he left his busy performing career in New York City to join his daughter in Colorado. There, Smith ran a musical instruments store, taught music, and raised his daughter while continuing to record albums for the Royal Roost and Verve labels into the 1960s.<sup id="cite_ref-Vitello_A20_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vitello_A20-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He told The <a href="/wiki/Colorado_Springs_Independent" title="Colorado Springs Independent">Colorado Springs Independent</a> in 2001 (as quoted in his <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i> obituary) "In the end, everything came down to the fact that I loved my daughter too much to let my career put her at risk. But there were other factors, too. I loved New York musically, but I hated living there." Paul Vitello observed that "Smith continued to record, and sometimes performed in Colorado nightclubs, but declined almost all invitations to tour. One exception was for Bing Crosby, whom he accompanied on a tour of England in 1977 that ended shortly before Mr. Crosby's death."<sup id="cite_ref-Vitello_A20_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vitello_A20-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_legacy">Death and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Smith&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Death and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1998, Smith was awarded the <a href="/wiki/James_Smithson" title="James Smithson">James Smithson</a> Bicentennial Medal for his contribution to music; the citation singled out "the genesis of 'Walk, Don't Run'," as well as "his manifold accomplishments" and their "profound and pervasive influence on the role of the guitar in contemporary popular culture."<sup id="cite_ref-Campbell_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campbell-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smith died of complications from a fall at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the age of 90.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Vitello_A20_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vitello_A20-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, <a href="/wiki/Tzadik_Records" title="Tzadik Records">Tzadik Records</a> released <i>The Maid With The Flaxen Hair: A Tribute To Johnny Smith</i> by guitarists <a href="/wiki/Mary_Halvorson" title="Mary Halvorson">Mary Halvorson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bill_Frisell" title="Bill Frisell">Bill Frisell</a>. The album features songs written by, or played by Johnny Smith.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Frisell had been a student of Smith in the 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Signature_guitars">Signature guitars</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Smith&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Signature guitars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:100px;max-width:100px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:92px;max-width:92px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Gibson_Johnny_Smith.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Gibson_Johnny_Smith.jpg/90px-Gibson_Johnny_Smith.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Gibson_Johnny_Smith.jpg/135px-Gibson_Johnny_Smith.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Gibson_Johnny_Smith.jpg/180px-Gibson_Johnny_Smith.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1692" data-file-height="4084" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Gibson <span class="nowrap">Johnny Smith</span> (LeGrand)</div></div></div></div></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Guild_Guitar_Company" title="Guild Guitar Company">Guild</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gibson_Guitar_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Gibson Guitar Corporation">Gibson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Heritage_Guitars" title="Heritage Guitars">Heritage</a> have all made guitar models which were endorsed by Johnny Smith. In each case, the guitar was designed wholly or in part by Smith. Each design was a full-bodied archtop guitar with a top carved from solid spruce and a back and sides made of solid maple. All the on-board electronics for each guitar, from the small pickup in the neck position through the volume knob to the output jack, were mounted on the pickguard. </p><p>Smith claimed to have learned about guitar design by observing master <a href="/wiki/Luthier" title="Luthier">luthier</a> <a href="/wiki/John_D%27Angelico" title="John D'Angelico">John D'Angelico</a>, who was his friend and guitar supplier when he lived in New York.<sup id="cite_ref-fenderplayersclub_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fenderplayersclub-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Guild_Johnny_Smith_Award">Guild Johnny Smith Award</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Smith&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Guild Johnny Smith Award"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1955, after discussions with <a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred_Dronge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alfred Dronge (page does not exist)">Alfred Dronge</a>, chairman and founder of the <a href="/wiki/Guild_Guitar_Company" title="Guild Guitar Company">Guild Guitar Company</a>, Smith designed a guitar and sent the drawings and specifications to Dronge. The Guild designers modified it (to Smith's dissatisfaction), and manufactured the resulting guitar as the <b>Guild Johnny Smith Award</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-fenderplayersclub_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fenderplayersclub-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bacon_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bacon-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 143">: 143 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gibson_Johnny_Smith">Gibson Johnny Smith</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Smith&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Gibson Johnny Smith"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1961, <a href="/wiki/Ted_McCarty" title="Ted McCarty">Ted McCarty</a>, then president of Gibson, went to meet the retired Smith at his home in Colorado Springs. McCarty spent several days with Smith, during which time Smith designed the guitar he wanted built. The design was accepted by Gibson with a few minor cosmetic changes which were acceptable to Smith.<sup id="cite_ref-fenderplayersclub_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fenderplayersclub-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gibson began production of the resulting <b>Gibson Johnny Smith</b> model that year.<sup id="cite_ref-Bacon_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bacon-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 135">: 135 </span></sup> Guild continued to produce their Johnny Smith guitar under the model name <b>Guild Artist Award</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bacon_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bacon-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 143">: 143 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Heritage_Johnny_Smith">Heritage Johnny Smith</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Smith&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Heritage Johnny Smith"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When Gibson moved its manufacturing facilities from <a href="/wiki/Kalamazoo,_Michigan" title="Kalamazoo, Michigan">Kalamazoo, Michigan</a> to <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a>, several of their managers and artisans chose to stay behind. Many of these ex-employees formed <a href="/wiki/Heritage_Guitars" title="Heritage Guitars">Heritage Guitars</a> and bought the old Kalamazoo factory from Gibson. Given a choice between Gibson and Heritage building the guitar that bore his name, Smith chose to stay with the old artisans at the old location under new ownership. The <b>Heritage Johnny Smith</b> model was introduced in 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like Guild before them, Gibson continued to manufacture their version of the Johnny Smith design with a new name: the <b>Gibson LeGrand</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Guild_Johnny_Smith_Award_by_Benedetto">Guild Johnny Smith Award by Benedetto</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Smith&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Guild Johnny Smith Award by Benedetto"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Bill_Schultz_(Fender)" title="Bill Schultz (Fender)">William Schultz</a>, chairman of <a href="/wiki/Fender_Musical_Instruments_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Fender Musical Instruments Corporation">Fender Musical Instruments Corporation</a>, of which Guild Guitars was a subsidiary, asked Smith if he would be willing to return his endorsement to the Guild Artist Award. Familiar with Schultz's management, and knowing that the construction would be supervised by master luthier <a href="/wiki/Bob_Benedetto" class="mw-redirect" title="Bob Benedetto">Bob Benedetto</a>, Smith agreed.<sup id="cite_ref-fenderplayersclub_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fenderplayersclub-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <b>Guild Johnny Smith Award by Benedetto</b> was available through Guild dealers until early 2006 when Benedetto left Fender.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unlike Guild and Gibson, Heritage Guitars discontinued manufacture of their Smith-designed guitar after Smith withdrew his endorsement. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Smith&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_leader">As leader</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Smith&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: As leader"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Jazz at NBC Series</i> (Johnny Smith Quintet featuring Stan Getz) (Royal Roost, 1952) 10" LP</li> <li><i>Jazz at NBC Series, Vol. 2</i> (Johnny Smith Quintet featuring Stan Getz) (Royal Roost, 1953) 10" LP</li> <li><i>In a Mellow Mood</i> (<a href="/wiki/Roost_Records" title="Roost Records">Roost</a>, 1954) 10" LP</li> <li><i>In a Sentimental Mood</i> (Roost, 1954) 10" LP</li> <li><i>Johnny Smith Plays Jimmy Van Heusen</i> (Roost, 1955)</li> <li><i>The Johnny Smith Quartet</i> (Roost, 1955)</li> <li><i>The New Johnny Smith Quartet</i> (Roost, 1956)</li> <li><i>The Johnny Smith Foursome</i> (Roost, 1957)</li> <li><i>The Johnny Smith Foursome, Volume II</i> (Roost, 1957)</li> <li><i>Flower Drum Song</i> (Roost, 1958)</li> <li><i>Easy Listening</i> (Roost, 1959)</li> <li><i>Johnny Smith Favorites</i> (Roost, 1959)</li> <li><i>Designed for You</i> (Roost, 1959)</li> <li><i>My Dear Little Sweetheart</i> (with the Irwin Kostal Orchestra) (Roost, 1960)</li> <li><i>Guitar & Strings</i> (with the Irwin Kostal Orchestra) (Roost, 1960)</li> <li><i>Johnny Smith Plus The Trio</i> (Roost, 1960)</li> <li><i>The Sound of the Johnny Smith Guitar</i> (Roost, 1961)</li> <li><i>The Man with the Blue Guitar</i> (Roost, 1962)</li> <li><i>Reminiscing</i> (Roost, 1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Smith_(album)" title="Johnny Smith (album)">Johnny Smith</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Verve_Records" title="Verve Records">Verve</a>, 1967)</li> <li><i>Johnny Smith's Kaleidoscope</i> (Verve, 1968)</li> <li><i>Phase II</i> (Verve, 1968)</li></ul> <p><b>Compilation albums</b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Moonlight_in_Vermont_(album)" title="Moonlight in Vermont (album)">Moonlight in Vermont</a></i> (Roost, 1956) tracks from the two <i>Jazz at NBC</i> issues of 1952–53</li> <li><i>Moods Moods Moods</i> (Roost, 1956) tracks from the two <i>In a...Mood</i> issues of 1954</li> <li><i>The Guitar World of Johnny Smith</i> (Roost, 1964)</li> <li><i>The Complete Roost Johnny Smith Small Group Sessions</i> (<a href="/wiki/Mosaic_Records" title="Mosaic Records">Mosaic</a>, 2002) 8-CD set</li> <li><i>Walk, Don't Run</i> (<a href="/wiki/Roulette_Records" title="Roulette Records">Roulette</a>/EMI, 2005)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_sideman">As sideman</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Smith&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: As sideman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Stan_Getz" title="Stan Getz">Stan Getz</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Complete_Roost_Recordings" title="The Complete Roost Recordings">The Complete Roost Recordings</a></i> (Blue Note, 1950–1954 [1997]) 3-CD set</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Hank_Jones" title="Hank Jones">Hank Jones</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Urbanity_(album)" title="Urbanity (album)">Urbanity</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Clef_Records" title="Clef Records">Clef</a>, 1947–1953 [1956])</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Beverley_Kenney" class="mw-redirect" title="Beverley Kenney">Beverley Kenney</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>Beverley Kenney Sings for Johnny Smith</i> (Roost, 1955)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Price" title="Ruth Price">Ruth Price</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>Ruth Price Sings with the Johnny Smith Quartet</i> (Roost, 1956)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Jeri_Southern" title="Jeri Southern">Jeri Southern</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>Jeri Southern Meets Johnny Smith</i> (Roulette, 1958)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Art_Van_Damme" title="Art Van Damme">Art Van Damme</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>A Perfect Match</i> (Columbia, 1963)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Johnny_Smith&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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