Researching Bob Smale
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1973 people with the Smale surname? In that year Smale was ranked number 1853 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Bob means "Form of ROBERT - Bright fame" and is of German origin.
Records of Bob Smale on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Bob Smale and the Smale Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 1773 people with the Smale surname in the UK? Smale is now ranked number 2491 for popularity in the UK. |
Smale Genealogy Databases
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Smale Forums
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Some Famous People called Bob Smale
Bob Smale
Robert Claire Smale, known as Bob Smale (March 21, 1931 – November 9, 2010), was a pianist.
Smale performed from 1969 to 1982 on The Lawrence Welk Show. He was also a musical arranger, conductor, and writer for Welk and in other venues as well in the musical scene in Los Angeles, California.
Smale joined the Welk orchestra in 1969 when two of the show's pianists, Frank Scott and Larry Hooper, left the program. (Hooper would fill in for Smale from time to time before rejoining the show in 1973.) At the time, the Welk series was still broadcast on ABC, prior to switching to syndication in 1971 for an additional eleven-year run.
A native of Oakland, California, Smale and his wife of forty-seven years, Mary Hope Smale (born c. 1939), had three children, Margaret S. Wells and Rob and David Smale, and ten grandchildren. He died at the age of seventy-nine at his residence in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles.
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