Illustrated Spark Plug Smith discography

source: Melotone Records flyer

Spark Plug
Smith
date and location of birth unknown
date and location of death unknown
discography

#	year of release	title / label / notes
*10 inch 78 rpm* Since this ain't no museum, my aim is not to depict actually existing specimen of 78 rpm records, but to show the labels as pristine as workmanlike possible even if this - in some cases - takes a whole lot of my time to photoshop process the initial data
Banner, Melotone, Oriole, Perfect, Romeo were (until 1935) the cheap 'dime store labels' (S. H. Kress, McCrory) of the American Record Corporation (ARC) ("three for a dollar")

1	1933	Spark Plug Smith - Motherless Boy (12831-2) @ youtube @ Spotify - Deserted Man Blues (12835-1) @ youtube @ Spotify rec. January 5, 1933 in New York City; Spark Plug Smith, voc, g Banner 32681 = Melotone M12617 = Oriole 8200 = Perfect 0224 = Romeo 5200
2	1933	Spark Plug Smith - New Blue Heaven (12851-1) * @ youtube @ Spotify - Stopped Clock Blues (12833-1) # @ youtube @ Spotify # rec. January 5, 1933 in New York City; Spark Plug Smith, voc, g * rec. January 7, 1933 in New York City; Spark Plug Smith, voc, g Banner 32682 = Melotone M12618 = Oriole 8201 = Perfect 0225 = Romeo 5201
3	1933	Spark Plug Smith - In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town (12846-1) @ youtube @ Spotify - Sweet Evening Breeze (12845-1) @ youtube @ Spotify rec. January 5, 1933 in New York City; Spark Plug Smith, voc, g Banner 32683 = Melotone M12620 = Oriole 8202 = Perfect 0226 = Romeo 5202
4	4/1933	'Spark' Plug Smith - You Put That Thing On Me (12836-1) # @ youtube @ Spotify - Vampire Women (12848-1) * @ youtube @ Spotify # rec. January 6, 1933 in New York City; Spark Plug Smith, voc, g * rec. January 5, 1933 in New York City; Spark Plug Smith, voc, g Banner 32725 = Melotone M12654 = Oriole 8219 = Perfect 0235 = Romeo 5219 * Vocalion 1739
5	1933	'Spark' Plug Smith - Mama's Doughnut (12830-1) # @ youtube @ Spotify - Make It Tight (12853-1) * @ youtube @ Spotify # rec. January 6, 1933 in New York City; Spark Plug Smith, voc, g * rec. January 5, 1933 in New York City; Spark Plug Smith, voc, g Banner 32749 = Melotone M12677 = Oriole 8228 = Perfect 0239 = Romeo 5228 # Vocalion 1739
6	1933?	Stable Boy Sam - Vampire Women [Banner 32725] - Mama's Doughnut [Banner 32749] Vocalion 1739
		- Going Wrong (12832- ) - Chimney Corner Blues (12834- ) - Hard Road Blues (12837- ) - Bloodhound Blues (12838 -) - Worried In Mind Blues (12839- ) rec. January 5, 1933 in New York City; Spark Plug Smith, voc, g ARC unissued
		- Broad Blues (12847- ) - Billy Goat Blues (12849- ) - Richmond Virginia Blues (12850- ) rec. January 6, 1933 in New York City; Spark Plug Smith, voc, g ARC unissued
		- Mistreat Her Blues (12852- ) - Buy My Cabbage (12854- ) rec. January 7, 1933 in New York City; Spark Plug Smith, voc, g ARC unissued
*LP / CD compilations*
7	1974	Mama Let Me Lay It On You 1926-1936 Bobby Leecan & Robert Cooksey - Whiskey And Gin Blues Irene Scruggs - Itching Heel Smith And Harper - Poor Girl Willie Walker - South Carolina Rag - take 1 Blind Blake - Chump Man Blues Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Every Day In The Week Blues Walter Coleman - Mama Let Me Lay It On You Josh White - Good Gal Leola B. Wilson - Wilson Dam Blind Boy Fuller - Black And Tan Spark Plug Smith - Vampire Women Blind Blake - Sweet Jivin' Mama Smith And Harper - Insurance Policy Blues Charlie Manson - Nineteen Women Blues notes by Stephen Calt and John Miller Yazoo 1040 (US 1974) = Yazoo CD 1040 (US 1991) Yazoo Records discography
8	1989	Country Blues Collector Items Vol. 2 (1931-1937) Spark Plug Smith - Mama's Doughnut - Motherless Boy - Stopped Clock Blues - Deserted Man Blues - You Put That Thing On Me - Sweet Evening Breeze - In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town - Vampire Women - New Blue Heaven - Make It Tight Blind Squire Turner - She Thinks She's Slick - Don't You Like The Way Do Sophisticated Jimmy La Rue - Sweet Violets - Two Old Maids In A Folding Bed - Money Truckin' Blues "Papa" Charlie McCoy - Times Ain't What They Used To Be Andrew "Smokey" Hogg - Family Trouble Blues - Kind-Hearted Blues Jimmie Rodgers & Clifford Gibson - Let Me Be Your Sidekick Blues Documents RST BD-2057 (Austria 1989) = Story of Blues/Da Music CD 3540 (US 1993) RST Blues Documents discography
9	1995	Spark Plug Smith / Tallahassee Tight (Louis Washington) East Coast Blues & Gospel 1933 - 1934 Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Spark Plug Smith - Mama's Doughnut - Motherless Boy - Stopped Clock Blues - Deserted Man Blues - You Put That Thing On Me - Sweet Evening Breeze - In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town - Vampire Woman - New Blue Heaven (My Little Blue Heaven) - Make It Tight Tallahassee Tight (Louis Washington) - Had A Dream That Troubled Me - Run Sinner Run - Standing On A Rock - Lonesome And Worried Blues - Ramblin' Mind Blues - Black Gal - Quincey Wimmens - Tallahassee Women - Coast Line Blues - Black Snake Blues - Screaming Woman - Homesick Blues - Got Heaven In My View - Jealous Man notes by David Evans Document DOCD-5387 (Austria 1995)
10	2015	20 Classic Blues Songs from the 1920s Volume 13 2016 Calendar with free CD CD and Calendar contents: - My Monday Blues - Jim Jackson - When The War Was On - Blind Willie Johnson - Walking Blues - Charlie Kyle - Atlanta Moan - Barbecue Bob - Boogie Woogie - Papa Charlie McCoy - Some Cold Rainy Day - Curly Weaver and Ruth Willis - Wabash Rag - Blind Blake - 'Lectric Chair Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Beale Street Breakdown - Jed Davenport and His Beale Street Jug Band - Vampire Women - Spark Plug Smith - Georgia Cake Walk - Ma Rainey - The High Cost Of Sin - Black Billy Sunday Supplementary CD tracks: - Will You Spend Eternity In Hell - Black Billy Sunday - Special Question Blues - Hattie Hyde - T & N O Blues - Hattie Hyde - No Baby - Charlie Kyle - Country Guy Blues - Papa Charlie McCoy - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson - Tar Road Blues - Jaydee Short - Flaggin' It To Georgia - Jaydee Short restored by the AMERICAN EPIC sound team Blues Images Calendar Vol. 13 (rel. 2015, for 2016) Blues Images CD BIM-113 (US 2015) accompanying Blues Images Calendar Vol. 13 Blues Images calendars discography
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943, 4th ed. 1997, p. 836
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Kit Stymee Stovepipe, Peter Brown, John Heneghan and Ray Templeton for additional info / scans

"Spark Plug" Smith named after a popular 1920s comic strip racehorse