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Harrison recorded "Kansas City" for the Harlem-based entrepreneur Bobby Robinson, who released it on his Fury record label. At the height of the song's success, Robinson was sued by Savoy Records who informed them that the release of the record in March 1959 [4] violated a contract Harrison had with that label that was to expire in August 1959 ...
"Kansas City" is a rhythm and blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952. [1] First recorded by Little Willie Littlefield the same year, as "K. C. Loving", the song later became a chart-topping hit when it was recorded by Wilbert Harrison in 1959.
"Let's Stick Together" is a mid-tempo twelve-bar blues-style R&B song. [2] According to music writer Richard Clayton, "Harrison probably intended 'Let’s Stick Together' as his follow-up single [to 'Kansas City'], but a contract dispute prevented him from releasing it while his star was in the ascendant". [3]
In 1959 it had a Billboard No.1 hit with Kansas City, sung by Wilbert Harrison. In the early 1970s, it helped launch Grandmaster Flash. See also List of record labels ...
Kansas City", first recorded in 1952 (as "K. C. Loving") by rhythm & blues singer Little Willie Littlefield, became a No. 1 pop hit in 1959 for Wilbert Harrison. [3] In 1952, the partners wrote " Hound Dog " for blues singer Big Mama Thornton , [ 12 ] which became a hit for her in 1953. [ 3 ]
Six blocks to the north, the former intersection of 12th Street and Vine is the subject of Leiber & Stoller's song "Kansas City" in 1952, adapted by Little Willie Littlefield as "Kansas City Lovin ' " [5] and adapted by Little Richard, Wilbert Harrison, and the Beatles. Vine Street no longer intersects with 12th Street, where a housing project ...
Kelvin Harrison Jr. is ready to show fans a whole new version of the iconic Disney villain Scar. The actor, 30, exclusively told Us Weekly that he initially approached his role in Mufasa: The Lion ...
His first session for Federal produced "K. C. Loving", written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and later re-recorded by Wilbert Harrison as "Kansas City". In the late 1970s he toured Europe successfully, settling in the Netherlands and releasing a number of albums from 1982 into the late 1990s for the Oldie Blues label from Martin van Olderen. [9]