Name: Here's Larry Williams + 2 Bonus Tracks
Brand: VINYL
SKU: 89260740
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Here's Larry Williams + 2 Bonus Tracks

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Album: Here's Larry Williams + 2 Bonus Tracks
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Short Fat Fannie	More Info...
2)	Make a Little Love	More Info...
3)	Hootchy-koo	More Info...
4)	Lawdy Miss Clawdy	More Info...
5)	Peaches and Cream	More Info...
6)	Give Me Love	More Info...
7)	Bad Boy	More Info...
8)	Bony Moronie	More Info...
9)	Little School Girl	More Info...
10)	Dizzy, Miss Lizzy	More Info...
11)	Teardrops	More Info...
12)	You Bug Me, Baby	More Info...
13)	Ting-a-ling	More Info...
14)	Slow Down	More Info...

Album: Here's Larry Williams + 2 Bonus Tracks
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Short Fat Fannie	More Info...
2)	Make a Little Love	More Info...
3)	Hootchy-koo	More Info...
4)	Lawdy Miss Clawdy	More Info...
5)	Peaches and Cream	More Info...
6)	Give Me Love	More Info...
7)	Bad Boy	More Info...
8)	Bony Moronie	More Info...
9)	Little School Girl	More Info...
10)	Dizzy, Miss Lizzy	More Info...
11)	Teardrops	More Info...
12)	You Bug Me, Baby	More Info...
13)	Ting-a-ling	More Info...
14)	Slow Down	More Info...

Performer Notes

His first album remastered from the original mono tapes.
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. ~ Stewart Mason