James Oscar Smith (December 8, 1928 – February 8, 2005) was an American jazz musician who helped popularize the Hammond B-3 organ, creating a link between jazz and 1960s soul music. In 2005, Smith was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor that America bestows upon jazz musicians. == Early years == James Oscar Smith was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, northwest of Philadelphia. He joined his father doing a song-and-dance routine... [more on Wikipedia]
Top songs: #1: Walk on the Wild Side - #2: Got My Mojo Working - #3: Midnight Special - #4: The Cat - #5: Back at the Chicken Shack| Date | Title | Points | Charts Peaks | Links | Comment | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1962 | Midnight Special | 21 | MP3 | ||||
| 1. | 03/1962 | 21 | US 69 • US R&B 13 | MP3 | instrumental [Blue Note 1819] written by Jimmy Smith | |||
| 2. | 1962 | Bashin' | 80 | MP3 | ||||
| 1. | 05/1962 | 72 | US 21 • US R&B 4 | MP3 | instrumental [Verve 10255] written by Elmer Bernstein & Mack David | |||
| 2. | 09/1962 | 8 | US 82 | MP3 | [Verve 10262] written by Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II | |||
| 3. | 1962 | Plays Fats Waller | 4 | MP3 | ||||
| 1. | 09/1962 | 4 | US 107 | MP3 | instrumental [Blue Note 1851] written by Spencer Williams & Jack Palmer | |||
| 4. | 1963 | Back at the Chicken Shack | 14 | MP3 | ||||
| 1. | 03/1963 | 14 | US 63 | MP3 | [Blue Note 1877] written by Jimmy Smith | |||
| 5. | 1963 | Hobo Flats | 12 | MP3 | ||||
| 1. | 05/1963 | 12 | US 69 | MP3 | [Verve 10283] written by Oliver Nelson | |||
| 6. | 1963 | Any Number Can Win | 9 | MP3 | ||||
| 1. | 11/1963 | 9 | US 96 • US R&B 48 | MP3 | instrumental [Verve 10299] written by Michel Magne | |||
| 7. | 1964 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 13 | MP3 | ||||
| 1. | 04/1964 | 13 | US 72 • US R&B 34 | MP3 | instrumental [Verve 10314] written by Don Kirkpatrick & Keith Knox | |||
| 8. | 1964 | The Cat | 14 | MP3 | ||||
| 1. | 09/1964 | 14 | US 67 • US R&B 34 | MP3 | instrumental [Verve 10330] written by Lalo Schifrin | |||
| 9. | 1965 | The Organ Grinder's Swing | 6 | MP3 | ||||
| 1. | 10/1965 | 6 | US 92 | MP3 | [Verve 10363] written by Will Hudson, Irving Mills & Mitchell Parish | |||
| 10. | 1966 | Got My Mojo Workin' | 39 | MP3 | ||||
| 1. | 04/1966 | 39 | US 51 • US R&B 17 • UK 48 | MP3 | [Verve 10393] written by McKinley Morganfield & Preston Foster | |||
| 11. | 1966 | Hoochie Cooche Man | 8 | MP3 | ||||
| 1. | 08/1966 | 8 | US 94 • US R&B 49 | MP3 | [Verve 10426] written by Willie Dixon | |||
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