Marvin Smith
Marvin "Smitty" Smith (born June 24, 1961) is an American jazz drummer and composer.
Marvin Smith was born in Waukegan, Illinois, where his father, Marvin Sr., was a drummer. As a result, "Smitty," was exposed to music at a young age, receiving formal musical training at the age of three. After graduating Waukegan East High School, Smith attended College of Lake County from 1983-85 as a member of their Jazz Ensemble after graduating class of 1981 Berklee, has recorded 200 albums with various artists, as well as two solo albums. He also has toured with Sting, Dave Holland, Sonny Rollins, Willie Nelson and with Steve Coleman. He is a former member of The New York Jazz Quartet, and Drummer under fellow Berklee alum and Musical Director, Kevin Eubanks, for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from January 30, 1995 to the show's end on May 29, 2009 and the start of the second incarnation The Jay Leno Show, March 1, 2010.
Smith is often an in-studio guest on The Loose Cannons sports radio program, on Los Angeles' KLAC-AM, often when the Tonight Show is on a vacation break. Marvin Smith is married to Kimberly Brown-Smith of Greensboro, North Carolina.
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ALBUMS
- That Driving Beat - 60s & 70s Northern Soul Stompers released: 2010
- 100 Hits: Northern Soul released: 2009
- The Original Northern Soul Selection released: 2006
- 20 Original Mod Classics released: 2004
- SOUL, Volume 1: Dancefloor Classics released: 2004
- The Story of Brunswick released: 2002
- The 'In' Crowd: The Story of Northern Soul released: 2001
- Deep Beats: Northern Soul Dancefloor Classics, Volume 2 released: 1995
- Time Stopped / Have More Time released: 1966
- Were a Lover: Brunswick released:
That Driving Beat - 60s & 70s Northern Soul Stompers
Released 2010- The Who Who Song
- Hit and Run
- Girl Don't Make Me Wait
- I Love You Baby
- Our Love Is in the Pocket
- Sliced Tomatoes
- When You Call Me Baby (Unreleased Studio version)
- You Don't Love Me Anymore
- At the Top of the Stairs
- Baby Boy
- Don't Be Sore at Me
- You'll Get Enough
- My Love Keeps Getting Stronger
- Wrapped, Tied and Tangled
- Shing-A-Ling
- Don't Take It Out on This World
- Mr Big Shot
- Somebody Somewhere (Needs You)
- This Is the House (Where Love Died)
- The Champion
- Raining Teardrops
- Sweet Inspiration
- Have More Time
- Purple Haze
- I Get the Sweetest Feeling
- You Don't Love Me
- The Chase Is On
- Love Factory
- She'll Come Running Back
- California Montage
100 Hits: Northern Soul
Released 2009- Out on the Floor
- What
- Moonlight, Music and You
- The Snake
- Am I the Same Girl
- Love on a Mountain Top
- Shake a Tail Feather
- My Love Keeps Getting Stronger
- If You Can't Say Anything Nice
- Love Is After Me
- The Who Who Song
- (Blame It) On the Pony Express
- I Don't Want to Discuss It
- Don't Pity Me
- I'm So Glad I Got You
- Breakin' Down the Walls of Heartache
- You're Gonna Make Me Love You
- That's Enough
- Hold on to My Baby
- I Don't Want to Talk About It
The Original Northern Soul Selection
Released 2006- Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy
- Moonlight, Music and You
- The Snake
- California Soul
- I Get the Sweetest Feeling
- At the Top of the Stairs
- Big Lovers (Come in Small Packages)
- Love, Love, Love
- I Would If I Could
- Girl Don't Make Me Wait
- Don't Take It Out
- Bettin' on Love
- Don't It Make You Feel Funky
- I'm Where It's At
- New York in the Dark
- There Was a Time
- Rainmaker
- What Do I Wish For
20 Original Mod Classics
Released 2004- Getting Mighty Crowded
- Nothing Can Stop Me
- I'll Keep on Holding On
- All or Nothing
- Biff! Bang! Pow!
- Over Under Sideways Down
- Dancing in the Street
- Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart
- I Heard It Through the Grapevine
- Fortune Teller
- Something Has Hit Me
- Light My Fire
- Big City
- I Dig Everything
- Come Home Baby
- Am I the Same Girl
- Have More Time
- The Who Who Song
- Yeh Yeh
- She's About a Mover
SOUL, Volume 1: Dancefloor Classics
Released 2004- I Want You Back
- Only So Much Oil in the Ground
- If You Think You Got Soul
- Work to Do
- Who Will Do Your Running Now
- I Still Love You
- Wack Wack
- Do the Whoopie
- Mean Man
- I Wanna Be Free
- Tainted Love
- Get Your Love Back
- You Can Count on Me
- That's When the Tears Start
- What Condition My Condition Was In
- Don't Send Nobody Else
- Yes It's You
- Speed Up
- Swim
- Seven Day Fool
- Work Song
- One More Chance
The Story of Brunswick
Released 2002- Reet Petite
- Lonely Teardrops
- Baby Workout
- Wack Wack
- Wrapped, Tied & Tangled
- Nothing Can Stop Me
- I'm Gonna Miss You
- Hold On
- (I'm Just a) Fool for You
- (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
- Girl I Need You
- Hang on Sloopy
- Come on Over to My Side
- The Who Who Song
- Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes
- I Get the Sweetest Feeling
- Love Makes a Woman
- I'll Bet You
- From the Teacher to the Preacher
- You Keep Me Hangin' On
- To Sir With Love
- There Was a Time
- You Brought About a Change in Me
- Anywhere but Nowhere
The 'In' Crowd: The Story of Northern Soul
Released 2001- The "In" Crowd
- Getting Mighty Crowded
- Have More Time
- I'll Do Anything (He Wants Me To)
- That's Enough
- Let's Go Baby (Where the Action Is)
- Zig Zag Lightning
- All for You
- Girls Are Out to Get You
- What's Wrong With Me Baby
- There's Nothing Else to Say
- Open the Door to Your Heart
- These Hands (Small but Mighty)
- Cigarette Ashes
- Unsatisfied
- You're Gonna Make Me Love You
- Helpless
- (Come on and Be My) Sweet Darlin'
- Hit & Run
- One in a Million
- Just Like the Weather
- Landslide
- I'm in a World of Trouble
- Bar-B-Q
- Eddie's My Name
Deep Beats: Northern Soul Dancefloor Classics, Volume 2
Released 1995- This Is the House Where Love Died
- Turning My Heartbeat Up
- Help Me
- Glad All Over
- Sally Saying Something
- Don't Just Look at Me
- Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
- Don't Take It Out of This World
- Under My Thumb
- Living the Nightlife
- I'm So Glad I Found You
- I Don't Want to Lose You
- Last Minute Miracle
- One in a Million
- Black Eyed Girl
- I'm Gonna Pick Up My Toys (alternate take)
- You're Putting Me On
- Have More Time
- In the Long Run
- Just in the Nick of Time
- California Montage
Were a Lover: Brunswick
- Can I Change My Mind
- Suddenly
- We're Not Happy
- Wrapped Up in Your Warm and Tender Love
- I'm a Lover
- I Still Love You
- Baby Boy
- I Choose You
- Contract on Your Love
- You Are
- My Baby's Gone
- Hold On
- The Sweetest Thing
- Once You Fall in Love
- A Woman Needs to Be Loved
- Love Is Gone
- Since You Came into My Life
- How Can I Forget You?
- It's Those Little Things That Count
- Saving My Love for You
- Until You Came Along
- Another Time, Another Place
- Where the Lillies Grow
- I Never Had It So Good (And Felt So Bad)
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by Blake & Brian
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by Johnny Ace
Saving My Love For You
by: Blake & BrianThere was never a doubt if I could just hold out,
This is how good love could be
I'd find that special someone lucky me,
I always knew it could happen if
I could only hold on to my heart,
We'd be together forever and never part
I've been saving, saving my love for you,
I've been waiting for the right one to give it to,
All of my life I've dreamed of this day,
When I'd give my heard away,
And to who, I've been saving, saving my love for you
There's always that once in a lifetime
When a love like this comes along,
When something that feels so right just can't be wrong,
That's how I feel today,
A love this strong will never fade away
I've been saving, saving my love for you,
I've been waiting for the right one to give it to,
All of my life I've dreamed of this day,
When I'd give my heard away,
And to who, I've been saving, saving my love for you
All of my life I've dreamed of this day
When I'd give my heart away,
And to who, I've been saving, saving my love for you,