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- Date Released: April 16, 2001
- Genre: Blues
- Style: Soul/R&B, Louisiana Blues
- Label: Fantasy / Specialty
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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.
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| 01. |  |
Short Fat Fannie |
2:26 |  |
| 02. | |
Make A Little Love |
2:03 | |
| 03. | |
Hootchy-Koo |
2:36 | |
| 04. | |
Lawdy Miss Clawdy |
2:13 | |
| 05. | |
Peaches And Cream |
2:01 | |
| 06. | |
Give Me Love |
2:03 | |
| 07. | |
Bony Moronie |
3:07 | |
| 08. | |
Little School Girl |
1:53 | |
| 09. | |
Dizzy, Miss Lizzy |
2:12 | |
| 10. | |
Teardrops |
2:23 | |
| 11. | |
You Bug Me, Baby |
1:53 | |
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Ting A Ling |
2:04 | |
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Credits
- Larry Williams - Vocals // Larry Williams - Main Performer // Plas Johnson - Saxophone // Plas Johnson - Saxophone // Barney Kessel - Guitar // Barney Kessel - Guitar // Barney Kessel - Guitar // Ted Brinson - Bass // Ray Brown - Bass // Ray Brown - Bass // Ray Brown - Bass // Walter DeVenne - Remastering // Ernie Freeman - Piano // Rene Hall - Guitar // Earl Palmer - Drums // Alvin "Red" Taylor - Saxophone // Gerald Wilso - Trumpet
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