Here's Larry Williams

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Here's Larry Williams
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Studio album by
Larry Williams
Released1959
Genre
Length25:54
Label Specialty
Larry Williams chronology
Here's Larry Williams
(1959)		Slow Down with Larry Williams (The Missing and Unissued Sides)
(1960)

Here's Larry Williams is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Larry Williams, released by Specialty Records in 1959. [1] [3] The album includes two of Williams's hit singles, "Short Fat Fannie" and "Bony Moronie", and also features the song "Dizzy, Miss Lizzy", which would later be covered by the Beatles. [4]

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Critical reception

Professional ratings
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AllMusic's Stewart Mason wrote of the album: "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." [5]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Short Fat Fannie"2:21
2."Make a Little Love"1:59
3."Hootchy-Koo"2:32
4."Lawdy Miss Clawdy"2:10
5."Peaches and Cream"1:59
6."Give Me Love"2:00
Total length:13:01
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Bony Moronie"2:40
2."Little School Girl"1:51
3."Dizzy, Miss Lizzy"2:09
4."Teardrops"2:20
5."You Bug Me, Baby"1:50
6."Ting a Ling"2:03
Total length:12:53

References

  1. 1 2 Mason, Stewart (2003). Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; Thomas Erlewine, Stephen (eds.). All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues (3rd ed.). Backbeat Books. p. 613. ISBN   0-87930-736-6.
  2. ↑ Pollock, Bruce (2011). If You Like the Beatles...: Here Are Over 200 Bands, Films, Records and Other Oddities That You Will Love. Backbeat Books. ISBN   978-1617130182.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of 50s Music. Virgin Books. p. 498. ISBN   978-1-85227-937-0.
  4. ↑ Hilburn, Robert (December 30, 1988). "Specialty Records Releases Set of Little Richard's 1950s Songs". Los Angeles Times . Los Angeles, California. p. 26.
  5. 1 2 Mason, Stewart. "Larry Williams - Here's Larry Williams". AllMusic . Retrieved October 25, 2023.
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