Larry Williams - Complete Releases 1957-61 (CD)

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.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Just Because
2. Let Me Tell You Baby
3. High School Dance
4. Short Fat Fannie
5. Boney Moronie
6. You Bug Me Baby
7. Dizzy Miss Lizzy
8. Slow Down
9. 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