Thanks for the compliment Jerry .I was ,suppose still am ,very much into Black vocal group/ Rock 'n' Roll music .But the ol' memory is getting rusty .The reason i asked about "Smoke" in the beginning is because a local paper is running an "Original Artists Quiz" and so far many of their answers are wrong. It's probably trivial but it annoys me as someone will accept their answers as the right ones.
This week among the questions asked were who first recorded "Mack the Knife" I just know they are going to say Bobby Darin. Likewise "Smoke", that will be The Platters . I quess the quiz should be called " In the 50s who had the hit with? = ".
Nothing against the Platters by the way,Tony Williams was and still is one of my favourite singers and it puzzles me that his solo career never took off.I have one solo 45 of his called "Sleepless Nights" .I don't think it ever even dented the charts ,not over here in Ireland/England anyway.