found: His Liquid sounds [SR] 1954:label (Paul Smith)
found: LC data base, 08-28-91(hdg.: Smith, Paul, 1922- )
found: Paul Smith Quartet. Softly, baby [SR] 1957:container (Paul Smith, piano; Paul Thatcher Smith)
found: Grove music online, May 18, 2005:Jazz (Smith, Paul (Thatcher); b. Apr. 17, 1922, San Diego; American pianist and arranger)
found: New York times (online), viewed July 10, 2013(in obituary published July 3: Paul Smith; b. Paul Thatcher Smith, Apr. 17, 1922, San Diego; d. Saturday [June 29, 2013], Torrance, Calif., aged 91; jazz pianist who accompanied singers like Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Sammy Davis Jr., and Rosemary Clooney but who was best known for his long association, both on record and on concert stages worldwide, with Ella Fitzgerald)