If it wasn't for Specialty Record's scramble to find a replacement for Little Richard when he found God, we may have never have heard Larry William's exemplary tier two rock n' roll classics. Nor would we have heard the dozens of covers of his songs (among them several by the Beatles and the Stones). The former pimp, and Lloyd Price's ex-driver, was in the right place at the right time. Right about the time Little Richard, Specialty's meal ticket, switched directions, would be stand-in Lloyd Price jumped ship as well, starting his own label. Specialty didn't have to look far to find their next star. Williams was recommended by Price as a possible hole filler, and, with the crack studio team (among them drummer great Earl Palmer, and future Blaster sax player Lee Allen) waiting, they went to work. Acknowledging his serendipitous luck, Williams wrote half a dozen Little Richard song titles into his "Short Fat Annie," as if to say, "he's gone, get over it."
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Listen:Larry Williams - Slow Down mp3 at Mercury Paradise
Larry Williams - She Said Yeah mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Larry Williams - Short Fat Annie mp3 at The New LoFi
Larry Williams - Dizzy Miss Lizzy (ext. 78 version) mp3 at The Hound Blog
Visit:
Larry Williams - Excellent bio and 15 plus mp3s at The Hound Blog
Larry Williams - Discography at Wang Dang Dula
Larry Williams at Wikipedia
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