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Song: LAWDY MISS CLAWDY
Composer: Lloyd Price
Artist: Lloyd Price
Recording Company: Specialty Records
Studio: J&M Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana
Recording date: March 13th 1952
Producer: Dave Bartholomew
Single: Mailman blues in the B-Side.
Release date: April 1952
Musicians: Fats Domino (Piano), Ernest McLean (Electric Guitar), Frank Fields (Bass), Earl Palmer (Drums), Herbert Hardesty (Sax Tenor), Joe Harris (Sax Alto).
Chart: #1 Billboard R&B (7 weeks).
Another relevant recordings:
Elvis Presley – 1956
Larry Williams – 1959
Johnny Rivers – 1964
Little Richard – 1964
The Hollies – 1965
Solomon Burke – 1966
The Buckinghams – 1967
Joe Cocker – 1969
Ike Turner – 1972
Bill Haley and His Comets – 1973
Fats Domino – 1974
Carl Perkins – 1984
Paul McCartney - 1987
Recognition and curiosities:
1 – It was the record of the year for 1952 by Billboard and Cashbox Magazines.
2 - It is one of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll, by Rock and roll hall of fame.
3 - It is considered one of the first rock and roll songs, and I consider it the first one.
4 - It set the pattern for the rock and roll years in New Orleans.
5 - In 1958, Larry Williams, who was Lloyd Price Valet, reworked the song and that became Dizzy miss Lizzy, a great success on its own.
6 – It is one of the first rhythm and blues records to attract the attention of white Southern teenagers, among them Elvis Presley, who cut his own version in 1956.
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