Doc Williams (June 26, 1914 – January 31, 2011) was an influential American country music bandleader and vocalist.

[1][2] Born as Andrew John Smik Jr. in Cleveland, Ohio, United States,[1] and raised in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, he got his professional start playing with the Kansas Clodhoppers during the early 1930s.

Although the couple and their band the Border Riders recorded, performed live and appeared on the radio for over five decades, they never had a national hit.

[2] Doc Williams founded Wheeling Records in 1947 and through it released all of his and his wife's albums; occasionally, they sang together, and sometimes with their three daughters.

[2] Among his best-known songs are "Willie Roy the Crippled Boy" and "My Old Brown Coat And Me".