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"Stagger Lee" Single by Lloyd Price; B-side "You Need Love" Released: November 1958 () Recorded: New York City, September 11, 1958: Genre: New Orleans R&B: Length: 2: 20: Label: ABC-Paramount: Songwriter(s) Lloyd Price, Harold Logan (credited on single) Producer(s) Don Costa: Lloyd Price singles chronology
- "Stavin' Change"
- Camden, New Jersey, April 18, 1923
- 3:21
- 1923
Stagger Lee Lyrics: The night was clear and the moon was yellow / And the leaves came tumbling down / I was standing on the corner / When I heard my bulldog bark / He was barking at the two men...
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This was based on the traditional blues/folk song "Ballad of Stack-o-Lee," which was inspired by a real-life incident. Texas-born Lee Shelton, nicknamed Stagger Lee, was a notorious pimp and gambler who made headlines when he shot and killed Billy Lyons on Christmas night in 1895.
May 9, 2021 · He was 88. Price died Monday at a long-term care facility in New Rochelle, New York, of complications from diabetes, his wife, Jacqueline Price, told The Associated Press on Saturday.