Fact #31161
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Lloyd Price records Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Mailman Blues, Chee Koo Baby and Oo-ee Baby at J+M Music Shop, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, with Fats Domino on piano and Dave Bartholomew leading the band.
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Bumps Blackwell (A+R man, Specialty Records) : I arrived in Hollywood in 1949 to study advanced classical composition at UCLA and took a job with Specialty Records under Art Rupe. Within the first year I had a string of hit records which now seems incredible. I started out by recording religious music and, under my direction, Specialty got the greatest stable of gospel stars in history. Then I began to record rhythm-and- blues and had a succession of hits.
There was a definite trend toward a more basic and simple music in which the feeling was the most important thing. A singer could make a hit recording if he sang with a lot of feeling, regardless of how imperfect everything else might be.
Lloyd Price was one of those kind of singers, and his success prompted Little Richard and others to follow. You couldn't get a learned piano player to give you that simplicity and put that much energy and excitement into it. And that was the rhythm that the people loved and danced to and were buying. People were buying feel, and if you check every one of my hit records that's what they have.
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There was a definite trend toward a more basic and simple music in which the feeling was the most important thing. A singer could make a hit recording if he sang with a lot of feeling, regardless of how imperfect everything else might be.
Lloyd Price was one of those kind of singers, and his success prompted Little Richard and others to follow. You couldn't get a learned piano player to give you that simplicity and put that much energy and excitement into it. And that was the rhythm that the people loved and danced to and were buying. People were buying feel, and if you check every one of my hit records that's what they have.