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"Lawdy Miss Clawdy" is a song by New Orleans singer-songwriter Lloyd Price that "grandly introduced The New Orleans Sound". [2] It was first recorded by Price in 1952 with Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew during his first session for Art Rupe and Specialty Records .
In 2011, Price released his autobiography, The True King of the Fifties: The Lloyd Price Story, and worked on a Broadway musical, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, focused on his life and rise to stardom [21] with a team that included the producer Phil Ramone. [6] The musical also told how rock and roll evolved from the New Orleans music scene of the early 1950s.
"Personality" is a 1959 song with music and lyrics by Harold Logan and Lloyd Price. It was released as a single by Price, [ 2 ] and became one of Lloyd Price's most popular crossover hits. The single reached number 2 for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 , kept from the number 1 spot by " The Battle of New Orleans " by Johnny Horton . [ 3 ]
"Iko Iko" was like a victory chant that the Indians would shout. "Jock-A-Mo" was a chant that was called when the Indians went into battle. I just put them together and made a song out of them. Really it was just like "Lawdy Miss Clawdy". That was a phrase everybody in New Orleans used. Lloyd Price just added music to it and it became a hit. I ...
Price had recorded several singles going back to 1952 with the hit "Lawdy Miss Clawdy", included on this album.[1]The success of single "Stagger Lee" led to Price being one of the biggest-selling music acts of 1959.
The other song on the EP, "Josephine" was written by Stevens. The record has "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" and "Que Sera, Sera" on the A-side, with "Blue Christmas" and "Josephine" on the AA-side. [3] However, the record label lists the AA-side first. [4] "Blue Christmas" was recorded on 22 November 1982 at Eden Studios.
Memories: The '68 Comeback Special was a 1998 double album released by RCA Records that was a repackaging of material from the 1968 Elvis Presley television special, Elvis (commonly referred to as the Elvis Presley '68 Comeback Special).
It was recorded at the Jive Centre one Sunday afternoon in May 1958, using the Dixielanders as the backing group, and given the primitive circumstances of the session and surroundings, the quality was awful, but "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" launched Johnny Devlin as New Zealand's first superstar, when it was released in June 1958 on the Prestige label.