Larry Michael Smith, commonly known as Mike Smith, was born October 3 1939 and lived in various small towns in Kansas until moving to Hollywood in 1958. Smith first appeared on Decca Records in 1960 with a rockabilly backbeat song, "Sara Ruth" which was written as a joke for a high school friend. The other side of the record, "Week of Loneliness," had a limited success in the Bay Area of California, and in his adopted home town of Stockton, … Wikipedia
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