We first heard Stagger Lee many years ago.
I enjoyed sketching this one.
YouTube link to Original Stagger Lee by Lloyd Price
Showing posts with label Stagger Lee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stagger Lee. Show all posts
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Travelogue for the Universe: Stagger Lee
Travelogue for the Universe: Stagger Lee: Music Link from YouTube Buy at Levonhelm.com
Friday, July 30, 2021
Friday Night Musik
This week another favorite 😎
Three Versions from YouTube.
First by Lloyd Price, the Author also 🎙
Second, Little Sammy Davis with Levon Helm Band 🥁
Third, Hugh Laurie with his delightful version 🎹
My sketch ✍🏼
Friday, February 14, 2020
Friday Night Musik
Reposting a few more versions of Stagger Lee from YouTube
And my illustration. Meg
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Monday, August 11, 2014
YT link to Stagger Lee
So we knew there was a message
or rather, messages
from Levon,
in his volume 3 midnight rambles.
the songs all done by people who supported him
through his darkest days,
throat cancer a physical and mental blow,
enduring treatment, recovery, stresses,
facing losses so dear.
My favorite song on Levon's volume 3 album is Stagger Lee,
sung by Little Sammy Davis.
We got volume 1 and 2 and Little Sammy sang a lot when Levon was ordered not to sing.
Little Sammy is incredible.
I started to realize the songs were songs that would have been for more mature audiences,
like his midnight ramble memories.
Country fair, music show.
The kids and women left after the clean act.
Then things got more interesting.
So started researching Stagger Lee.
I had posted Hugh Laurie's stellar version awhile ago.
Lloyd Price wrote and recorded the first version
which became a #1 hit
and was censored,
the artist forced to changed versions.
the censored version
boldly played where people dared...
Lloyd's bio here, on the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame site:
What a guy!
You'll have to buy Levon and Little Sammy's version...
the truest likeness to Mr. Lloyd Price's version,
buy levon music
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
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