Time: 27:22
Size: 62.7 MB
Styles: R&B, Rock N Roll
Year: 2015
Art: Front
[2:22] 1. Short Fat Fannie
[2:00] 2. Make A Little Love
[3:08] 3. Hootchy-Koo
[2:10] 4. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
[1:59] 5. Peaches And Cream
[2:02] 6. Give Me Love
[3:02] 7. Bony Moronie
[1:51] 8. Little School Girl
[2:08] 9. Dizzy, Miss Lizzie
[1:50] 10. You Bug Me, Baby
[2:01] 11. Ting-A-Ling
[2:44] 12. Just Because
Larry Williams (1935-1980) was a popular rock & roll singer who in the 1950s had such hits as “Dizzy, Miss Lizzy,” “Bony Maroney,” “Short Fat Fannie,” “Bad Boy,” and “She Said Yeah.”
Born in New Orleans, Williams learned piano and developed his singing style. After his family moved to Oakland, he became a member of the Lemon Drops, a local R&B group. In 1954 when he was 19, Williams visited New Orleans and met Lloyd Price, who was recording for the Specialty label. Price hired him as his valet, introduced him to the label’s producer Robert “Bumps” Blackwell, and, after an audition, he was signed to a record contract.
Larry Williams’s first recording, “Just Because,” was a hit and his career took off for a time. Groomed as Specialty’s replacement for the recently departed Little Richard, Williams recorded a wide variety of rock ’n’ roll and ballads for Specialty during 1957-1959. Larry Williams’s popularity had begun to slip before he was arrested in 1959 for selling narcotics. Dropped by Specialty, he recorded for Chess and other labels with only mixed success. He worked a bit with Johnny “Guitar” Watson in the mid-1960s and had solid selling-records with “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” and “Nobody.” After largely dropping out of music for a decade, Larry Williams was beginning to make a comeback when he died of a gunshot wound in 1980 under mysterious circumstances.
Born in New Orleans, Williams learned piano and developed his singing style. After his family moved to Oakland, he became a member of the Lemon Drops, a local R&B group. In 1954 when he was 19, Williams visited New Orleans and met Lloyd Price, who was recording for the Specialty label. Price hired him as his valet, introduced him to the label’s producer Robert “Bumps” Blackwell, and, after an audition, he was signed to a record contract.
Larry Williams’s first recording, “Just Because,” was a hit and his career took off for a time. Groomed as Specialty’s replacement for the recently departed Little Richard, Williams recorded a wide variety of rock ’n’ roll and ballads for Specialty during 1957-1959. Larry Williams’s popularity had begun to slip before he was arrested in 1959 for selling narcotics. Dropped by Specialty, he recorded for Chess and other labels with only mixed success. He worked a bit with Johnny “Guitar” Watson in the mid-1960s and had solid selling-records with “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” and “Nobody.” After largely dropping out of music for a decade, Larry Williams was beginning to make a comeback when he died of a gunshot wound in 1980 under mysterious circumstances.
Old Recordings Of The 1950s
1 comment:
This one seems to be Here's Larry Williams (Specialty SP 2109)
https://www.discogs.com/es/Larry-Williams-Heres-Larry-Williams/master/415499
Post a Comment