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"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.
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 ...
In 1959, "Kansas City", written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, was a number one hit for Harrison on both the Billboard R&B and Hot 100 singles chart. [ 4 ] In 1962, Harrison recorded "Let's Stick Together" for Fury Records, one of several labels operated by record producer Bobby Robinson , that had issued "Kansas City".
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]
1027 – Wilbert Harrison – Cheating Baby / Don't Wreck My Life; 1028 – Wilbert Harrison – 1960 / Goodbye Kansas City; 1029 – The Premiers – I Pray / Pigtails Eyes Are Blue; 1030 – June Bateman – Believe Me Darling / Come On Little Boy; 1031 – Wilbert Harrison – C C Rider / Why Did You Leave
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's "Kansas City", recorded by Little Willie Littlefield is a pioneering melodic pop blues song that later become hits for Wilbert Harrison, Little Richard and The Beatles. The song helped launch the careers of Leiber and Stoller, who would become two of the most prominent songwriters in the field. [50]
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The first song on "Oldies 95" was "Kansas City" by Wilbert Harrison. [12] [13] Another oldies station serving Kansas City, WHB (then at 710 AM), saw most of its listeners switch over to KCMO-FM in a matter of months, prompting that station's conversion to farm radio. KCMO-FM logo used from the mid-1990s-2005