O.C. SMITH BIO Grammy award nominee O.C. Smith, described as the "Most Romantic storyteller," was the lead singer for the Count Basie Orchestra before signing with CBS Records. O.C.'s career has spawned over 20 nationally charted singles, including the Grammy-winning song "Little Green Apples”. After CBS, O.C. united with Charles Wallert, who wrote and produced the title track as well as the album for "Dreams Come True" that returned O.C. to the national charts. The next venture for O.C. and Charles was the "Whatcha Gonna Do" album, resulting in three nationally charted singles for a total of 40 weeks. This album gave us the all time Beach Music classic, “Brenda”, which remained number 1 for 2 years. The same album also gave us Beach Music hits, “You’re My First, My Last My Everything”, “Spark Of Love”. Additional hits such as “The Best Out Of Me”, “After All Is Said And Done”, among others, established O.C. as a Beach Music Superstar. O.C.’s success with “Brenda” expanded a greater national awareness o