Michael Smith - BiographyGilbert Kenneth Michael Smith was born on 1 January 1922 in King's Norton, Warwickshire. He was on the committee of the Federation of Recorded Music Societies from 1947 to 1948, and latterly from 1978 to 1998, becoming Chairman. in 1976. In 1961, he joined the British Forces Broadcasting Service. He joined Radio Medway (later Radio Kent) in 1970. Smith, who lived in Rainham, Kent, produced classical music programmes on BBC Radio Medway for thirteen years. These programmes included Concert Hall and Kent Classics. He began his discography work in 1961, compiling British record label listings for Decca, HMV and Columbia. Some of these were done in collaboration with Frank Andrews. Earlier titles were published by Oakwood Press. Smith worked in this field until shortly before his death, and had been recognised with an award in America, but died before he could travel to be presented with it. From 1999 to 2000, he was Treasurer of the City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society (CLPGS), from whom his books can still be purchased. He died in Kent on 18 June 2008, aged 86. Federation of Recorded Music Societies obituary (page 21), Autumn 2008 An obituary also appears in the CLPGS magazine, For the Record, issue 27 (Autumn 2008). « Back to Biography Edit This Biography : Biography Credits
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