Joseph Robert Smith (July 4, 1948 – March 23, 2015) was an American pianist, author, and lecturer.
 The son of Robert Paul Smith and Elinor Goulding Smith, Smith was a long-time student of pianist Seymour Bernstein.
Liberace: Behind the Music is a 1988 Kushner-Locke Company television production.
 It is an "unofficial" biopic drama on the life and death of Władziu Valentino Liberace, who went from a humble working-class background to become a famous American pianist and vocalist.
 Known as "Liberace", he became the highest paid entertainer in the world, while embracing a lifestyle of flamboyant excess.
 The film first aired less than two years after his death, in the United States, as a CBS Sunday Movie.
David Saperton (1889–1970) was an American pianist known especially for being the first pianist to play the entire original compositions as well as the complete transcriptions of his father-in-law, Leopold Godowsky.
 He also recorded a number of Godowsky’s Studies on Chopin's Études as well as other pieces.
 His students at the Curtis Institute include Jorge Bolet, Shura Cherkassky, Sidney Foster, Julius Katchen, John Simms, Abbey Simon and Eleanor Sokoloff.
 As a pianist he is regarded as a great dramatist, a sensitive poet and superb colorist.
Scotty Plummer (born circa 1961 – died 1992) was a highly regarded banjo player who made a name for himself as a youngster in both the United States and Canada and earned the title "Prince of Banjo".
 He also achieved some international fame through touring as a headline act with Liberace in the mid-1970s.
Władziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987), mononymously known as Liberace, was an American pianist, singer, and actor.
 A child prodigy and the son of working-class immigrants, Liberace enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements.
 At the height of his fame, from the 1950s to the 1970s, Liberace was the highest-paid entertainer in the world, with established residencies in Las Vegas, and an international touring schedule.
 Liberace embraced a lifestyle of flamboyant excess both on and off stage, acquiring the sobriquet "Mr. Showmanship".
Victor Arden was the stage name for an American pianist named Lewis John Fuiks (8 March 1893 — 31 July 1962) who was best known as the piano duo partner of and co-orchestra leader with Phil Ohman from 1922 to 1932.
 He was the pianist in the All-Star Trio, who made several hits for Victor Records between 1919 and 1921.
Painless Parker (born Edgar R.R. Parker; 1872–1952) was a flamboyant American street dentist described as "a menace to the dignity of the profession" by the American Dental Association.
 However, "Much of what he championed—patient advocacy, increased access to dental care, and advertising—has come to pass in the U.S."
Lilian Kallir (May 6, 1931 – October 25, 2004) was a Czech-born American pianist.
 Born in Prague in 1931, she moved to New York in 1940, where she studied the piano under Isabelle Vengerova and Herman de Grab, and composition and theory under Hugo Kauder.
 She made her debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1957, and married fellow pianist Claude Frank in 1959, with whom she frequently performed together in her career.
 In 1975, Kallir became a teacher at the Mannes School of Music, where she was once a student.
 She toured frequently and collaborated with a wide range of orchestras and musicians, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17.
Christiana Lin (born in Taipei) is a Chinese-Austrian pianist and harpsichordist.
 Since 1994 she has been a Steinway Artist.
 From 1978 to 1992, she studied in Vienna, Innsbruck and Munich and was conferred the "Diplom Ausgezeichnet" in piano performing from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, where she studied piano under Prof. Noel Flores, and composition with Prof. Erich Urbanner.
 She was also conferred the "Diplom Ausgezeichnet" in piano performing and "Diplom" in music education with additional "Schwerpunkt" in Cembalo (harpsichord) from the Tiroler Landeskonservatorium Innsbruck where she studied piano under Prof. Claude-France Journès, a renowned French-German pianist, and harpsichord under Prof. Michael Jaud, an Austrian harpsichordist and organist.
 For several times at the Mozarteum International Summer Academy in Salzburg, she studied piano with the American pianist, Prof. Leon Fleisher.
 She also has been to the Moscow Conservatory several times, studying with Prof. Monov and Prof. Natalie Trull.
Monti Rock III (born Joseph Montanez, Jr.
 May 29, 1942 in the Bronx, New York) is a flamboyant American musician and performer from New York City.

Question: What is the name of that flamboyant American pianist that Scotty Plummer headlined for in the mid-1970's?
Answer: Władziu Valentino Liberace