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“Sweet, Sweet Smile” is a C&W song composed by Otha Young and Juice Newton introduced by The Carpenters on their 1977 album Passage. The track features drummer Ronnie Tutt who regularly backed Elvis Presley. “Sweet, Sweet Smile” is one of the few songs recorded by the Carpenters which was chosen by Karen Carpenter rather than Richard Carpenter. Juice Newton and her bandleader Otha Young had written “Sweet, Sweet Smile” for Newton herself to record but Newton’s label Capitol Records was not interested in the song. Newton’s manager, who was a friend of the Carpenters, was playing the demo of “Sweet, Sweet Smile” at his home while Karen Carpenter was visiting. Karen Carpenter liked the song and brought it to the attention of her brother Richard Carpenter who’d recall:... Read on...