Relaxing After Hours With Willie Smith

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Album Info

Release Date: 1954

Label: EmArcy

Only a partial compilation. Six of these tracks were previously issued as ten-inch 78 RPM records in 1945/46 on Keynote.

A1: recorded 16 February 1946, Los Angeles;
A2: recorded 16 February 1946, Los Angeles;
A3: recorded 16 February 1946, Los Angeles;
A4: recorded 16 February 1946, Los Angeles;
B1: recorded 2 May 1945, Los Angeles;
B2: recorded 2 May 1945, Los Angeles;
B3: recorded 2 May 1945, Los Angeles;
B4: recorded 2 May 1945, Los Angeles.

A2 and A3 originally released as Keynote K-629 as by The Keynoters;
B1 and B4 originally released as Keynote K-620 as by Willie Smith And His Orchestra Featuring Les Paul (note side B was then titled, "Willie..." instead of "Willow";
B2 and B3 were originally released on disc in 78 RPM multi-record set Keynote Album K-143;
A1 and A4 apparently were not released prior to this LP.

While drummer Dave Coleman is credited on the jacket front, he is not among the performers credited in Ruppli and Novitsky's "The Mercury Labels," discography, Volume 1, which is the source of all the other musicians named on this page.

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