Carl Smith (country musician)

Carl Milton Smith (March 15, 1927 – January 16, 2010) was an American country music singer. Known as "Mister Country," Smith was the husband of June Carter (later June Carter Cash) and Goldie Hill, and the father of Carlene Carter. He was one of country's most successful male artists during the 1950s, with 30 Top 10 Billboard hits, including 21 in a row. Smith's success continued well into the 1970s, when he had a charting single every year except one. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Biography

Early career

A native of Maynardville, Tennessee, Carl Smith aspired to a musical career after hearing the Grand Ole Opry on the radio. He sold seed to pay for guitar lessons as a teenager. At age 15, he started performing in a band called Kitty Dibble and Her Dude Ranch Ranglers. By age 17, he had learned to play the string bass and spent his summer vacation working at WROL-AM in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he performed on Cas Walker's radio show.

After graduating from high school, he served in the U.S. Navy from 1944–47. He returned to WROL and played string bass for country singers Molly O'Day and Skeets Williamson, and began his singing career. A colleague at the station sent an acetate disc recording of Smith to WSM-AM and the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, and WSM soon signed him. In 1950, Smith was signed to a recording contract with Columbia Records by producer Don Law.

Carl Smith

Carl Smith may refer to:

Carl Smith (country musician) (1927–2010), American country music singer

Carl Smith (American football) (born 1948), American football coach

Carl Smith (ice hockey) (1917–1967), ice hockey winger

Carl Herbert Smith (1950–2004), American computer scientist

Carl "Buster" Smith (1921–1992), eleven-time champion pool checkers player and international draughts player

Carl Smith (footballer) (born 1979), English professional footballer

Carl Michael Smith (born 1944), American businessman and politician from Oklahoma

Carl "Tatti" Smith (1908-unknown), American jazz trumpeter

Carl Smith (game designer), American game designer

Carl Smith, fire chief of Thunderbolt, Georgia, and candidate in the United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, 2010

Carl Smith (game designer)

Carl Smith is a game designer who has worked primary on role-playing games.

Career

Carl Smith was an editor at TSR when Tracy Hickman got Harold Johnson, then Jeff Grubb, Smith and Larry Elmore in on the idea of Dragonlance before Margaret Weis and Douglas Niles joined them.

Between 1983 and 1984, approximately 200 people left TSR as a result of multiple rounds of layoffs; as a result Smith joined CEO John Rickets, as well as Mark Acres, Andria Hayday, Gaye Goldsberry O'Keefe, Gali Sanchez, Garry Spiegle, Stephen D. Sullivan and Michael Williams in forming the game company Pacesetter on January 23, 1984. In 1985, Smith announced that Pacesetter was working on a "totally new concept in gaming", which he called the "instant adventure roleplaying game"; the result was published that summer as Sandman: Map of Halaal (1985).

References

External links

Carl Smith :: Pen & Paper RPG Database archive

Carl Smith (ice hockey)

Carl "Winky" Smith (September 18, 1917 – January 9, 1967) was an ice hockey winger. Smith picked up his nickname when he played on the same line as Nelson "Blinky" Boyce and Ray "Nod" Powell for the Omaha Knights following World War II. His brother Dalton "Nakina" Smith, played with him on many occasions throughout his career.

Professional career

Minor league hockey

Smith was small in size, but more than made up for it with his stellar play on the ice. After spending time with the St. Michael's Majors in the junior league of the OHA he began play for the Oshawa G-Men of the senior league in the 1935–36 season. He continued to excel on the ice and was finally noticed after a stellar season in which he scored 30 points in just 18 games. Smith was contacted by the Detroit Red Wings on his birthday and signed as a free agent just nine days later. He was to begin play for the Wings in their farm system, starting with the Detroit Holzbaugh Ford of the Michigan-Ontario Hockey Association in the 1939–40 season. After starting on a point per game pace for the first 31 games of the season, Smith was brought up to the Wichita Skyhawks of the American Hockey Association. However his time with the Skyhawks was short as the team was disbanded after finishing in last place and Smith ended up on the first place St. Louis Flyers and playing for the first time with his brother, Dalton. Smith and his brother helped keep the Flyers in first place for the next two years, including helping them win the Harry F. Sinclair Trophy, given to the league champions, in 1940–41. For the 1942–43 season, Smith finally made the jump to the American Hockey League along with Dalton to begin play for the New Haven Eagles, but end the season playing for the Buffalo Bisons, all while scoring 38 points. He also helped lead the Bisons to win the AHL championship and the Calder Cup with his 9 playoff points.