Lloyd Price's 1958 hit 'Stagger Lee' told the story of a real-life killing—but the upbeat rock and roll track still climbed to No. 1 on the charts in 1959.
Last weekend we saw Stagger Lee, the Will Power and Justin Ellington musical doing its world premiere at the Dallas Theater Center. All the way through it I was thinking about John Wiley Price. Elaine ...
In the African-American community, the folk song “Stagger Lee” sits alongside “Frankie & Johnny” or “Bonnie and Clyde” as an iconic murder ballad: The story of a brutish thug (Stagger) who kills a man ...
Singer Lloyd Price, best known for the hits "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" and "Stagger Lee," died in New Rochelle, N.Y., last week at the age of 88. 'Mr. Personality' Lloyd Price Dead At 88 MARY LOUISE KELLY, ...