Ted DeGrazia singer Sammi Smith Dick Frontain photo Gallery in the Sun Tucson Arizona c.1977-2013
by David Lee Guss
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Ted DeGrazia singer Sammi Smith Dick Frontain photo Gallery in the Sun Tucson Arizona c.1977-2013
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Ted DeGrazia and singer Sammi Smith (1943-2005) were photographed by Dick Frontain in front of the gallery in c.1977.
The photographer was said to have "had more pictures of Ted than any other person in the world."
A year earlier he had snapped a picture off a TV monitor of Ted being interviewed by Gene Shalit on the "Today Show." Shalit
had an outrageous hairdo and bushy mustache. He rudely remarked that Ted looked "funny" in his typical Western wear.
Smith sang in a DeGrazia directed video of "an Old West tale of lust for gold." Ted called it a "spaghetti Western," starring himself with Smith in a saloon singing the tune she penned for him, called "DeGrazia's Song."
Carol Locust goes on to say that Ted "had the starring role in several videos made by his Gallery."
The American country music singer/songwriter was signed to Columbia Records with the help of Johnny Cash.
Like Ted she was a heavy smoker but their is no confirmation of the cause of her death at 61.
Her actor son, Waylon Payne, played Jerry Lee Lewis in the 2005 "Walk the Line,'"the biopic film about the life of Johnny Cash, one of Smith's old friends."
Smith, the mother of four, had a million seller with her 1971 rendition of Rhodes Scholar Kris Kristofferson's song "Help Me Make It Through the Night."
She sings it a low key, wistful manner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFomOCT71L4
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December 23rd, 2013
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