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Smokey Joe's Cafe is a musical revue showcasing 39 pop standards, including rock and roll and rhythm and blues songs written by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The Original Broadway cast recording , Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller , won a Grammy Award in 1997.
"Smokey Joe's Cafe" The Robins 79 10 - "I Want to Do More" Ruth Brown - 3 - 1956 "Ruby Baby" The Drifters - 10 - 1963: Dion, #2 US pop, #5 R&B 1974: Billy "Crash" Craddock, #33 US pop, #1 US country "The Chicken and the Hawk" Big Joe Turner - 7 - "Down in Mexico" The Coasters - 8 - "One Kiss Led to Another" The Coasters [2] 73 11 - 1957 "Lucky ...
The song is the title track of his album I Who Have Nothing. [15] This became the most popular version of the song in the United States, peaking at No. 14 in 1970 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 2 on the Easy Listening chart, [16] and No. 10 in Canada. [17] This version also peaked at No. 11 in Cashbox.
Leiber and Stoller won Grammy awards for "Is That All There Is?" in 1969, and for the cast album of Smokey Joe's Cafe, a 1995 Broadway musical revue based on their work. Smokey Joe's Cafe was also nominated for seven Tony awards, and became the longest-running musical revue in Broadway history. Other awards include:
Smokey Joe's Cafe: Direct from Broadway is a 2000 film of the Broadway production of the musical revue Smokey Joe's Cafe as captured live in performance on Broadway featuring the show's final Broadway cast.
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The songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller started Spark Records and in 1955 produced "Smokey Joe's Cafe" for the Robins [2] (their sixth single with Leiber and Stoller). The record was popular enough for Atlantic Records to offer Leiber and Stoller an independent production contract to produce the Robins for Atlantic.
B.J. Crosby, also known as Lady B.J. (born Joanne Crayton; November 23, 1952 – March 27, 2015), was an American jazz vocalist, singer, and actress.In 1995, Crosby received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical nomination for her performance in the musical, Smokey Joe's Cafe.