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Cal Smith
Cal Smith began his music career performing at the Remember Me Cafe in San Francisco at the age of fifteen. Throughout the 1950s, he was not able to continue his music career, so he worked at various other jobs, including truck driving and bronco busting before joining the armed forces.
In 1961 Ernest Tubb heard Smith's band play and, after an audition, hired Smith to play guitar for the Texas Troubadours. Cal can be heard playing in most of Tubb's 1960s recordings. He released his first solo single, I'll Just Go Home, in 1966, and he first hit the Billboard charts with his second single, The Only Thing I Want.
In 1970, Smith signed with Decca Records, and his popularity quickly soared, starting off with his 1972 top 10 hit, I've Found Someone of My Own. In 1974, he recorded two of his greatest hits, It's Time to Pay the Fiddler and Country Bumpkin, which received Song of the Year Awards from both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association.
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