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One of the great R&B long-players of the '50s, Here's Larry Williams collects nearly all of the Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter's key work ("Bad Boy" and 1967's "Mercy Mercy Mercy" are the only truly essential tracks missing), and a bunch of smokin' obscurities besides. Listening to these tracks, it's clear why John Lennon was such a huge Larry Williams fan; his rough-and-ready no-bull voice is elastic enough to move from a Little Richard trill to a Ray Charles growl, and songs like "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" and "Short Fat Fannie" are raucous enough to be punk rock nearly a full two decades before the concept was even in existence. Of the lesser-known tracks, the giddy Buddy Holly-meets-Richard Berry "You Bug Me, Baby" and the salacious "Little School Girl," featuring a good and greasy sax solo, are the highlights; on the downside, "Ting A Ling" is as slight and tossed-off as its title, and the intrusive female chorus that sounds like it made the wrong turn from the Rosemary Clooney session down the hall is just plain awful.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
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LARRY WILLIAMS, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1957 Specialty Records Inc.
LARRY WILLIAMS, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Art Rupe, Producer
℗ 1990 Concord Music Group, Inc.
LARRY WILLIAMS, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1958 Specialty Records Inc.
LARRY WILLIAMS, MainArtist - Lloyd Price, ComposerLyricist - Art Rupe, Producer
℗ 1990 Concord Music Group, Inc.
LARRY WILLIAMS, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Art Rupe, Producer
℗ 1990 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Edwin Johnson, ComposerLyricist - LARRY WILLIAMS, MainArtist - Art Rupe, Producer - Alvin B. Johnson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1959 Concord Music Group, Inc.
LARRY WILLIAMS, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1957 Specialty Records Inc.
LARRY WILLIAMS, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1959 Specialty Records Inc.
LARRY WILLIAMS, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1958 Specialty Records Inc.
SONNY BONO, ComposerLyricist - LARRY WILLIAMS, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Art Rupe, Producer
℗ 1959 Concord Music Group, Inc.
SONNY BONO, ComposerLyricist - LARRY WILLIAMS, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1957 Specialty Records Inc.
LARRY WILLIAMS, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1959 Specialty Records Inc.
Album review
One of the great R&B long-players of the '50s, Here's Larry Williams collects nearly all of the Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter's key work ("Bad Boy" and 1967's "Mercy Mercy Mercy" are the only truly essential tracks missing), and a bunch of smokin' obscurities besides. Listening to these tracks, it's clear why John Lennon was such a huge Larry Williams fan; his rough-and-ready no-bull voice is elastic enough to move from a Little Richard trill to a Ray Charles growl, and songs like "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" and "Short Fat Fannie" are raucous enough to be punk rock nearly a full two decades before the concept was even in existence. Of the lesser-known tracks, the giddy Buddy Holly-meets-Richard Berry "You Bug Me, Baby" and the salacious "Little School Girl," featuring a good and greasy sax solo, are the highlights; on the downside, "Ting A Ling" is as slight and tossed-off as its title, and the intrusive female chorus that sounds like it made the wrong turn from the Rosemary Clooney session down the hall is just plain awful.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:26:46
- Main artists: Larry Williams
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Specialty Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 1959 Specialty Records, Inc. ℗ 1992 Fantasy, Inc.
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