Larry Williams

Larry Williams brought a hard, comic, streetwise edge to early rock and roll. The USA singer, pianist, and songwriter moved between rhythm and blues, blues, and rock, leaving songs that later became favourites for British beat groups. Bony Moronie, Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Short Fat Fannie, and Bad Boy made his writing part of the 1950s rock vocabulary.

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  Bony Moronie: blues roots of the seminal rock and roll hit

  Bony Moronie is one of the best-known tracks of New Orleans singer Larry Williams which, along with his other songs, has...