Norman Smith
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Norman Smith is a musician and record producer. He was also an engineer on several of the albums by The Beatles up until 1965 when EMI promoted him from engineer to producer. The last Beatles album he would be involved with to a substantial degree would be Rubber Soul. By the time of work for Revolver as he was already committed to The Piper at the Gates of Dawn which was being recorded in a neighboring studio at the same time by Pink Floyd. Smith only produced two albums for Pink Floyd as the band deemed him "too old-fashioned" for their tastes.
In the early 1970s, Smith, as a recording artist, had a US #3 hit "Oh Babe, What Would You Say" under the name Hurricane Smith. This recording was a demo of a song that Norman had written for a different artist to record. When he played it for record producer Mickie Most, Mickie was impressed enough to tell him to release it as it was.
Also from Smith's self-titled debut album was a second hit single, a cover of Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Who Was It?."
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| Please Please Me (1963) | With the Beatles (1963) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Beatles for Sale (1964) | Help! (1965) | Rubber Soul (1965) Revolver (1966) | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) | Magical Mystery Tour (1967) | The Beatles (1968) | Yellow Submarine (1969) | Abbey Road (1969) | Let It Be (1970) |
| Films |
| A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Help! (1965) | Magical Mystery Tour (1967) | Yellow Submarine (1968) | Let it Be (1970) |
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