Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Smith daga baya ya shiga ƙungiyar mawaƙa Ivy Benson Orchestra a shekara ta 1948 kuma ya tashi zuwa Berlin don yin wa sojoji wasa lokacin da aka rufe birnin
ya fara. Ta auri mai busa ƙaho Jack Peberdy a watan Agusta 1950 (bayan mahaifinta ya gabatar da shi a bikin ranar haihuwar saxofonist na 19th). Smith ta shiga ƙungiyar Freddy Randall a wannan shekarar, kuma ita da mijinta sun yi aiki na cikakken lokaci don mai busa ƙaho daga 1953 zuwa Fabrairu 1957. A shekara ta 1956, ƙungiyar ta yi tafiya zuwa Amurka, don musayar ziyarar Louis Armstrong zuwa Burtaniya. Rikicin kabilanci ya yi yawa a lokacin kuma a wani gidan wasan kwaikwayo a Arewacin Carolina inda take yin wasan kwaikwayon an kwashe ƙungiyar saboda bam. Smith ya yi yawon shakatawa tare da wannan shirin kamar Bill Haley & His Comets, kuma ya sami nasara yayin da rikodin ta na "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" ya kai ga bikin baje kolin Amurka, inda ya sami sha'awar wasu shahararrun mawaƙa na ƙasar. An zabi Smith a matsayin daya daga cikin mafi kyawun 'yan wasan saxophone na Burtaniya a cikin zaben "Melody Maker" na 1957.