Clarence “Pine Top” Smith (June 11, 1904 – March 15, 1929) was one of the earliest pianists to recorded a boogie-woogie” piano solo. His 1928 tune “Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie” was the first recording to be labeled as such and and had a great deal of influence on all future pieces in that style. Pine Top toured the minstrel and TOBA vaudeville circuits throughout the 1920s performing with Mamie Smith and Butter Beans and Susie and other vaudeville acts. He was also a frequent solo performer at rent parties, taverns and whorehouses. Smith was accidently shot to death at a dance in Chicago in 1929.
| Title | Recording Date | Recording Location | Company |
| Big Boy They Can’t Do That (Clarence “Pine Top” Smith) | 1-15-1929 | Chicago, Illinois | Vocalion 1256 |
| I Got More Sense Than That | 1-14-1929 | Chicago, Illinois | Vocalion 1266 |
| I’m Sober Now (Clarence “Pine Top” Smith) | 1-14-1929 | Chicago, Illinois | Vocalion 1266 Brunswick 80009 B |
| Jump Steady Blues (a) (Clarence “Pine Top” Smith) | 1-15-1929 | Chicago, Illinois | Vocalion 1298 |
| Jump Steady Blues (b) (Clarence “Pine Top” Smith) | 1-15-1929 | Chicago, Illinois | Brunswick 80009 A |
| Nobody Knows When Your Down And Out (Clarence “Pine Top” Smith) | 1-15-1929 | Chicago, Illinois | Vocalion 1256 |
| Now I Ain’t Got Nothin’ At All | 1-15-1929 | Chicago, Illinois | Vocalion 1298 |
| Pine Top Blues (a) (Clarence “Pine Top” Smith) | 12-29-1928 | Chicago, Illinois | Vocalion 1245 |
| Pine Top Blues (b) (Clarence “Pine Top” Smith) | 12-29-1928 | Chicago, Illinois | Vocalion 1245 Brunswick 80009 A |
| Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie (a) (Clarence “Pine Top” Smith) | 12-29-1928 | Chicago, Illinois | Vocalion 1245 |
| Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie (b) (Clarence “Pine Top” Smith) | 12-29-1928 | Chicago, Illinois | Vocalion 1245 |
