Elvis Presley - Myrna Yvonne Smith ( Sweet Inspirations ) Interveiw by Joe Krein
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This aired on EER 'she was introduced before the taping started .
Telephone Interveiw
Myrna Yvonne Smith was an American songwriter and singer.
Smith became a high school English teacher in South Brunswick, New Jersey in the 1960s, while she also pursued her singing career. She was an original member of Dionne Warwick's Gospelaires group which later evolved into the Sweet Inspirations. The Sweet Inspirations backed Dionne, Aretha Franklin and countless others, and later served as Elvis Presley's backing group.[2] When she joined, the lead singer of the Sweet Inspirations was Cissy Houston, the mother of Whitney Houston and dynamic soprano featured on Aretha Franklin's "Ain't No Way". The Sweet Inspirations would secure their own contract with Atlantic Records and records several albums in the late 60s / early 70s.
Smith later married Jerry Schilling, a friend and associate of Elvis who subsequently also managed the Beach Boys at one point.
In the early 1980s, she co-wrote all of the songs on Carl Wilson's 1981 solo album Carl Wilson, as well as a few of the songs on his 1983 solo album Youngblood, and Wilson's contributions to The Beach Boys' self-titled 1985 album.
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