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Lloyd Price: Greatest Hits (1990 Curb Release)

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I really liked the songs that were on this cd
came fast and very happy with my purchase

I picked up this little chestnut @ a yard sale in rural Virginia. In a case that looked like it had scrubbed bricks was this little delightful disc. Dust off a CD in good shape & snap in it a fresh case & voila, I have a great addition to the music collection! The Curb Records "Greatest Hits" doesn't have all of the tunes that a comprehensive Price collection might offer from his various labels, but the 10 tracks here are well worth the price. Price's original "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" that I recalled from a 1965 Hollies album "Hear! Here!" Joe Cocker also recorded it for Mad Dogs & Englishmen with versions including Fats Domino & Eric Burdon. Price's track opens with a Fat Domino-like piano roll, "I give you all of my money, but you just won't treat me right; You like to ball in the morning, don't come back till late at night." Price adapted "Stagger Lee" from an old blues tune. It was startling in its day. I read that Dick Clark required a less violent version for Price's appearance on "American Bandstand," which accounts for a couple different versions of the song. "Personality" still seems catchy to me. I was joyfully joining in the chorus as I drove through a gorgeous winding road in Virginia. "Baby Come Home" is another excellent track with its slow sax chorus and Price's vocals rising and falling like waves of need & longing. "Carry Me Home" has a rollicking piano, blistering sax & Price's voice blazing like a rock & roll rocket, "Hey baby, don't you want a man like me? Well I'm too young, haven't made 23." "Mailman Blues" that concludes the set is a bouncy roller that mourns having to go in the military draft because, "I can't see my baby no more." This "Greatest Hits" is a good intro to one of our early great artists from the rock era. Enjoy!

ings hair.The feature attraction of this collection is "Stagger Lee" Proto gangster rap and the catchiest song ever written about cold blooded murder but even if it was just a Hillary Clinton campaign song it would sound Killer bee.Lawdy miss Clawdy is a rad toon too and their are folks out there that like Personality but not me in fact it is the reason I gave this collection four stars instead of five.