Larry Williams - The Complete Releases 1957-61 (2017)

Tracklist

01. Just Because 
02. Let Me Tell You Baby
03. High School Dance 
04. Short Fat Fannie
05. Boney Moronie 
06. You Bug Me Baby
07. Dizzy Miss Lizzy 
08. Slow Down
09. Hootchy Koo 
10. The Dummy
11. I Was a Fool 
12. Peaches and Cream
13. She Said Yeah 
14. Bad Boy
15. Steal a Little Kiss 
16. I Can't Stop Loving You
17. Give Me Love 
18. Teardrops
19. Ting a Ling 
20. Little Schoolgirl
21. Make a Little Love
22. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
23. My Baby's Got Soul
24. Every Day I Wonder
25. Get Ready
26. Baby, Baby
27. I Wanna Know
28. Like a Gentle Man
29. Oh, Baby
30. I Hear My Baby
31. Lawdy Mama
32. Fresh out of Tears

Larry Williams was a blues, R&B and rock 'n' roll singer from New Orleans, who was a contemporary and close associate of Little Richard and Lloyd Price, and who registered a series of influential landmark rock 'n' roll hits during the late '50s with "Short Fat Fannie", "Bony Moronie" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzie". He worked as a chauffeur for Lloyd price for a while, as well as playing in the his band and those of Roy Brown and Percy Mayfield, and through his connections with Price and Little Richard got a deal with the Specialty label. When Little Richard quit rock 'n' roll to take up the ministry, producer Robert Blackwell groomed Williams to step into his shoes, and in 1959 he scored Top 10 R&B and pop hits with "Short Fat Fannie" and Bony Moronie". He could not maintain the flow of hits, but recorded many classics which were later recorded by major artists, with The Beatles reviving "Dizzy Miss Lizzie", "Slow Down" and "Bad Boy" and The Rolling Stones recording "She Said Yeah", while "Bony Moronie" became a staple of rock 'n' roll bands the world over. This 32-track CD comprises every track he released, naturally including all those well-known titles, during this first and most important period of his career up until the time that he was incarcerated for drug offences at the start of the '60s, and as such it is a definitive cross-section of his work and an entertaining slice of classic rock 'n' roll.

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