Like previous #1-hit subject Tom Dooley, Stagger Lee (or “Stagolee,” or “Stack-O-Lee,” depending on which version you prefer) was a real person. Lee Shelton was a St. Louis pimp and gambler who, in ...

Lloyd Price, best known as the early rock 'n roll icon behind hits like "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," "Personality" and the semi-forbidden "Stagger Lee," is dead at age 88. Price's wife, Jacqueline Price, ...

Stagger Lee shot Billy over a $5 Stetson hat, or so the song goes. Everybody knows the fate of Billy Lyons, but it was East Bay author Cecil Brown who tracked down the actual turn-of-the-century ...

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The tale of Stagger Lee — or ”Stagolee,” or ”Staggerlee,” or ”Stack-A-Lee,” depending on what version of the story is being sung — has proven remarkably durable, and McCullough and Hendrix explore the ...

Lloyd Price, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer behind the groundbreaking 1950s pop/R&B hits “Personality” and “Stagger Lee,” died on May 3 at the age of 88. By Gail Mitchell Lloyd Price, the Rock and ...

After five years of development, with workshops here and in New York City, Will Power’s musical Stagger Lee finally has its world premiere at Dallas Theater Center. With all that time and effort ...

In the African-American community, the folk song “Stagger Lee” sits alongside “Frankie & Johnny” or “Bonnie and Clyde” as an iconic murder ballad: The story of a brutish thug (Stagger) who kills a man ...

Grateful Dead HQ celebrated the new year by revisiting the band’s memorable 12/31/78 stop at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom, specifically sharing their set-one “Stagger Lee.” Explains GD ...

Singer-songwriter Lloyd Price, an early rock ‘n roll star and enduring maverick whose hits included such up-tempo favorites as “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality” and the semi-forbidden “Stagger Lee,” ...

CHELSEA, MI - The restaurant’s name combines the names of two iconic rock bands, so it should come as no surprise there was a concerted effort from the owners of The Grateful Crow to bring back a ...