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Birth name
  
Robert Harlan Smith

Years active
  
1970s-1980s

Associated acts
  
Chris Nielsen

Record label
  
Royalty Records

Genres
  
country

Labels
  
Royalty Records

Genre
  
Country music

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Born
  
November 6, 1939 (age 77) Central Butte, Saskatchewan (
1939-11-06
)

Occupation(s)
  
singer, record producer

Albums
  
Songs of Life & Love, Stolen Moments

Nominations
  
Juno Award for Best Country Male Artist

Similar
  
Orval Prophet, Laura Vinson, Eddie Eastman, Mercey Brothers, Dallas Harms

Robert Harlan Smith (born November 6, 1939 in Central Butte, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian country music singer, record producer and record label executive. He is known as a founder of the Canadian country music label Royalty Records, and for his performances and recordings both as a solo artist and as a duo with his wife Chris Nielsen.

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He is a two-time Juno Award nominee for Best Country Male Vocalist at the Juno Awards of 1977 and the Juno Awards of 1979, and Smith and Nielsen were nominated together as Best Country Group or Duo at the Juno Awards of 1981. He was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame as a builder in 2005.

Discography

  • Bob Smith Sings (1970)
  • I Remember Love (1973)
  • Son of a Country Man (1975)
  • The Best of R. Harlan Smith (1975)
  • Here Comes Yesterday (1977)
  • We've Got the Magic (1978)
  • Stolen Moments (1979, with Chris Nielsen)
  • Two Stepping Round (1988)
  • Original Hits, Original Recordings (2006)
  • Song for Shelly
  • Uptown Country
  • Songs

    Stolen MomentsStolen Moments · 2004
    Ding-A-Ling DebbieWhere It All Began · 2011
    Here Comes YesterdayWhere It All Began · 2011

    References

    R. Harlan Smith Wikipedia