Personality (Lloyd Price song)

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"Personality"
Single by Lloyd Price
B-side "Have You Ever Had the Blues"
ReleasedApril 1959
Genre Pop [1]
Length2:35
Label ABC-Paramount
Songwriter(s) Harold Logan, Lloyd Price
Lloyd Price singles chronology
"Where Were You (On Our Wedding Day?)"
(1959)
"Personality"
(1959)
"I'm Gonna Get Married"
(1959)

"Personality" is a 1959 song with music and lyrics by Harold Logan and Lloyd Price. It was released as a single by Price, [2] and became one of Lloyd Price's most popular crossover hits. The single reached number 2 for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, kept from the number 1 spot by "The Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton. [3] The song was also a number 1 U.S. R&B hit, maintaining the top spot for four weeks. [4] Billboard ranked it as the number 3 song for 1959, with the number 1 slot going to "The Battle of New Orleans". The song reached number 9 in the UK Singles Chart. [5]

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A version of the song is heard in a 2010 TV commercial for NFLShop.com. the NFL's online retailer and also appears on the soundtrack of 2011 film The Help . [9]

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