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Lloyd Price was always ahead of his time.
He was rock n roll before there was rock n roll. He was a music entrepreneur before there were African-American music entrepreneurs.
Maybe that s why the singer of Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Personality and Stagger Lee, who died Monday at age 88, always seemed a little old for the crowd he was running around with on American Bandstand. I remember seeing him on Bandstand as a kid, says Tommy James, a later-generation hitmaker. He could tell, he says, that Price was somehow more mature than the other 1960s pop stars on that teen-centric show.
R&B singer Lloyd Price, who recorded "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" and "Personality," died Thursday at age 88. He is one of the founding fathers of rock-and-roll
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Happy Birthday Dennis Diken (Smithereens)
Happy birthday Dennis Diken (Smithereens). Next round on us. Read our obit for Pat DiNizio and how Scott McCaughey (Minus 5, Baseball Project, R.E.M.) was technically the first singer of the Smithereens:
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