Lloyd Price "Lawdy Miss Clawdy"

"Lawdy Miss Clawdy" is a song by Lloyd Price. It was first recorded by Price at the New Orleans recording studio of Specialty Records in March of 1952. It was released under the Specialty label in April and was number one on the Billboard rhythm and blues chart for seven weeks and stayed on the chart for six months. An 8-bar blues with a rolicking piano backup, with the words written by Price, but the melody adapted from the older Junker Blues (Champion Jack Dupree, 1941), it became the biggest rhythm and blues hit of the year and sold over one million copies by crossing over to the white record-buying market. It was the first hit from New Orleans to be accepted into rock and roll.The word lawdy means lord.

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[donn409]

I'm so glad Lloyd Price's original is on YouTube. It's great to hear the version that inspired Elvis to record his classic version.

[oramikleepunk]

I'm glad you like both...some racist like to put down the R&B songs and singers Elvis liked.

[kucheneka]

This song was number one the year I was born. I remember listening to it on the radio.

[rgath1964Utube]

I Guess for Decades, I thought I was Dead. But all the Rock-In-Roll is STILL ALLIVE -- And So AM I ! Ha! Ha!

[akemoguy]

the buckinghams do the best cover

[Nickie0016]

Love this!!!!

[kayek1943]

I'm reading the Fats Domino biography, "Blue Monday", and just read that although not credited, he played piano on this record and got paid session price for it $50+. He was under contract, so not allowed to do so, but he wanted to enjoy playing with his friends and backing Lloyd. Love this music! Always thought Fats was the best from the first time I heard one of his records, when I was 12 or 13.

[RadioLaPrincess]

@glortw I agree about Elvis. Elvis was not a rip off artist, he truly loved black artists. He was nowhere near a Pat Boone who WAS a rip off artist. Bill Haley is another white artist like Elvis who truly loved the music.

[CL137626]

@MrGotsquashed Fat's Domino's "the fat man", Smiley Lewis's "i hear you Knockin".

[MrGotsquashed]

I thought this song was from '55 (newer than '52). What other songs were comparable to this hit?

[MrGotsquashed]

I thought this song was from '55 (newer than '52). What other songs were comparable to this hit?

[RadioLaPrincess]

Thanks for posting this. It's so important to remember where Rock and Roll came from.