William ‘Curly’ Smith is one of the drummers from the Boston rock band. Years after, his voice is going viral on TikTok and the credit goes to his son Montana.
The influence of social media can be extremely elaborated, and this happened in the life of William ‘Curly’ Smith, as his son releases his unreleased song from the 70s. Zach Montana is a name that is quite famous now. He is the person responsible for the sudden elevated fame of the Boston Rock band drummer.
It was at the beginning of this year, Montana, the son of Smith, found the track ‘Surrender to me’ while driving his truck in the CD player. Initially, he couldn’t understand that it was father singing in the song. But as soon as he recognized his voice he was overwhelmed with this beautiful track.
Montana said, ‘I’m listening and I’m thinking, ‘Whoa, this is really good,’ initially, ‘Then the vocals come on and I hear a very familiar voice — and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, that’s my dad.’ He himself is a musician and he couldn’t stop himself from releasing the song online.
He is a second-year student at Arizona State University, and he played this song for his TikTok followers. Continuing to play the song, he said that the ‘horn section’ of the song is extremely good, he exclaimed ‘Just wait… It’s so good.’
After two months, the song ‘Surrender to me’ has more than one million streams on Spotify. In the last month Montana and Smith, the father-son duo performed on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’.
Smith is known for his drumming expertise in Boston. He toured and recorded with the rock band from 1994 to 2001. Along with that the singer and guitarist have also worked with Rick Springfield, Bette Milder, and Bonnie Raitt.
Montana said that Smith has ‘been out of the game for a little while,’ yet he is gaining wide career rejuvenation due to TikTok. ‘Of course, my dad is more excited about what it means for me,’ Montana said.
Adding further, ‘He’s like, ‘this is gonna get your music so much attention.’ That’s what kind of person he is.’ As the song is recorded over 43 years before and he didn’t get the record deal and the song was co-produced with the singer-songwriter Mark Olson who passed away.
Montana said, ‘At the time, the market was flooded with this kind of music,’ adding more he said, ‘I believe they pitched it to Motown Records and a few other subsidiaries, but nothing happened. And back then, they had no way of distributing it without a label. Obviously, there were no streaming platforms.’
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