Smith

Smith was an American rock group from St. Louis, Missouri with a blues based sound that had a top five hit in 1969 with a remake of The Shirelles "Baby It's You" with the lead sung by Gayl

Smith was an American rock group from St. Louis, Missouri with a blues based sound that had a top five hit in 1969 with a remake of The Shirelles "Baby It's You" with the lead sung by Gayle McCormick who had started her career singing songs by Tina Turner, Etta James and others of their ilk.

Smith released an album titled "A Group Called Smith" which spent 11 weeks in the top 40 album listings of the Billboard magazine record charts. On the album, vocals were split amongst Rich Cliburn, Jerry Carter and McCormick. Smith was discovered by 1960s rocker Del Shannon in a night club in Los Angeles. Shannon arranged "Baby It's You" for the group and got them signed to the ABC-Dunhill label. Smith recorded a second album titled "Minus-Plus" with lesser success. Smith did have their version of "The Weight" included on the Easy Rider movie soundtrack because The Band's version, which appeared in the movie, was not available for contractual reasons.