Lloyd Price Specialty Recordings: Lawdy! / Heavy Dreams

Lloyd Price (born 1933, Louisiana) grew up in the suburbs of New Orleans. Price had formal musical training in trumpet and piano, sang in a church's gospel choir and in high school he was a member of a combo. Price wrote his own songs and he perform with his band The Blu Boys in a nightclub. A local DJ put Price in touch with Dave Bartholomew, impressario, producer and talent scout. Bartholomew arranged auditions and Art Rupe of Specialty Records signed Price. Dave Bartholomew and his band backed Price in the studio and Price got a massive hit with "Lawdy Miss Clawdy." Two other songs ended up in the Top 10, but despite some very fine songs, Price (aka “Mr. Personality”) failed to chart again. Some of his material on Specialty suffered from a sameness, due to an obsessive search for another No 1 hit succes. But these Specialty compilations show us a surprising variety of music. In 1954, Price was drafted and ended up in Korea. Meanwhile, Little Richard and Larry Williams took his place at Specialty. Back in 1956, Prioce cut three more sessions for Specialty, but is was Little Richard who charted hit. Lloyd Proce moved to New York, he changed record label and from 1957 to 1959 he recorded a series of hits for ABC Records. In the early 1960s Price formed his own label Double L and he had success with Wilson Pickett's first hit "If You need Me." Lloyd Price became more a business man but occasionally hit the oldies circuit.

Album: Lawdy!
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1991
Styles: Early R&B; Rock & Roll; New Orleans
Time: 62:06
Size: 143,4 MB
Covers: Full

(2:33) 1. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
(2:12) 2. Mailman Blues
(2:13) 3. Chee Koo Baby
(2:43) 4. Oo-Ee Baby
(2:40) 5. So Long
(2:25) 6. Operator
(2:47) 7. Laurelle
(2:57) 8. What's the Matter Now?
(2:49) 9. If Crying Was Murder
(2:28) 10. Walkin' the Track
(2:05) 11. Where You At?
(2:20) 12. Lord, Lord, Amen!
(2:29) 13. Carry Me Home
(2:35) 14. Frog Legs
(2:30) 15. Frog Legs
(2:26) 16. I Wish Your Picture Was You
(2:20) 17. Let Me Come Home, Baby
(2:30) 18. Tryin' to Find Someone to Love
(2:29) 19. Night and Day Blues
(2:32) 20. All Alone
(3:00) 21. What a Fire
(2:17) 22. Rock & Roll Dance
(2:03) 23. I'm Glad, Glad
(2:25) 24. Baby Please Come Home
(2:08) 25. Forgive Me, Clawdy

Lawdy!
Lawdy! artwork

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Album: Heavy Dreams
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1993
Styles: Early R&B; Rock & Roll; New Orleans
Time: 56:49
Size: 131,4 MB
Covers: Full

(2:24) 1. Chee Koo Baby
(2:31) 2. Oo-Ee Baby
(2:38) 3. Oooh-Oooh-Oooh
(2:36) 4. Restless Heart
(2:17) 5. Tell Me Pretty Baby
(2:43) 6. They Say
(2:42) 7. I'm Too Young
(2:43) 8. Ain't It a Shame?
(2:15) 9. Jimmie Lee
(2:33) 10. Baby, Don't Turn Your Back on Me
(2:54) 11. Old Echo Song
(2:25) 12. Too Late for Tears
(2:16) 13. Carry Me Home
(2:23) 14. Little Bea
(2:33) 15. Night and Day
(2:12) 16. Oh Love
(2:22) 17. Woe Ho Ho
(2:33) 18. Breaking My Heart (All over Again)
(2:25) 19. I Yi Yi Gomen-A-Sai (I'm Sorry)
(2:08) 20. Country Boy Rock
(2:29) 21. Heavy Dreams
(2:09) 22. Why
(2:27) 23. I'm Goin' Back

Heavy Dreams
Heavy Dreams artwork

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