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"Stagger Lee", also known as "Stagolee" and other variants, is a popular American folk song about the murder of Billy Lyons by "Stag" Lee Shelton, in St. Louis, Missouri, at Christmas 1895. The song was first published in 1911 and first recorded in 1923, by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians , titled "Stack O' Lee Blues".
May 9, 2011 · The origins of this tale begin with a Christmas Eve bar fight in Saint Louis in 1895. The events of the murder were fairly commonplace; two friends, Billy Lyons and “Stagger” Lee Shelton, were drinking at Bill Curtis’s saloon and became enthralled in a conversation about politics. Billy grabbed Shelton’s hat in anger, and when he ...
Originally published in April 2017. On Christmas Eve, 1895, a shooting occurred in a North St. Louis saloon that was destined to find a prominent—and permanent—place in American oral tradition. The participants were two black men, a levee hand named William “Billy” Lyons and a part-time carriage driver and full-time pimp named Lee Shelton.
Background Stagger Lee's "Lid" Club at 911 N. 12th Street, St. Louis (Tucker Blvd. now). The historical Lee Shelton was an African American man born in 1865 in Texas.: 37 He later worked as a carriage driver in St. Louis, Missouri, where he gained a reputation as a pimp and gambler, and evidently served as a captain in a black "Four Hundred Club", a political and social club with a dubious ...
The legend of “Stagger Lee” is born. On Christmas night 1895, a barroom argument between two men—one named Billy and another named "Stag" Lee—takes place, leading to murder. The killing ...
Feb 27, 2020 · And so, the Ike and Tina Turner version saw Stagger Lee kill Billy Lyons over a card game: Not long afterwards, Stagger Lee began spreading across many other genres. After The Grateful Dead took ...
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Feb 9, 2021 · Billy Lyons later died from his wounds. Lee Sheldon’s first trial ended in a hung jury; at the second, he was convicted and served time; he died in 1912.
