Phoebe Smith
About the artist
Phoebe Smith (1913-2001) is thought by many to have been one of England's greatest traditional singers. She had a style and delivery that stunned an audience into silence, and to hear her in full flight at the end of her CD "The Yellow Handkerchief" is a revelation. She was born in 1913 in Faversham, Kent, and was one of the daughters of Bill Scamp and his wife Ann Jones. She was raised in a large Gypsy family and spent much of her early life picking fruit in Kent.
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- Higher Germany
- The Tan Yard Side
- The Yellow Handkerchief
- Molly Vaughan
- A Blacksmith Courted Me
- Sweet William
- Young Ellender
- Captain Thunderball
- I'm A Romany Rai
- I Am a Romany
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