The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3018   Message #1990271
Posted By: GUEST,Tunesmith
08-Mar-07 - 04:28 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Stagger Lee / Stack O'Lee / etc.
Subject: RE: Origins: Stagger Lee
I was in my schoolyard ( Liverpool, UK, 1959), and a group of us lads were talking about our current favourite records. I mentioned Lloyd Price's "Stagger Lee" ( which I loved). Another lad in the group said that it was an old song. Well, I saw red! (In retrospect, my reaction was undoubtedly to do with the fact that rock n' roll was my music! Not my parents or the previous generation). Anyway, one thing lead to another and there was a bit of punch-up. ( Incidentially, that was the last time I threw a punch in anger). A few years after this incident, I got heavily into folk and blues music and realised that the lad in the schoolyard was correct. I'm not quite sure where he got that information from, but I suspect his dad was probably a trad jazz fan.