"I never was starstruck. I had 23 hit records and I never looked for the next record to hit. I never had that need that they had to be somebody. I just wanted to be," Lloyd Price said in a 1998 interview.
Lloyd Price was always ahead of his time.
He was rock n roll before there was rock n roll. He was a music entrepreneur before there were African-American music entrepreneurs.
Maybe that s why the singer of Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Personality and Stagger Lee, who died Monday at age 88, always seemed a little old for the crowd he was running around with on American Bandstand. I remember seeing him on Bandstand as a kid, says Tommy James, a later-generation hitmaker. He could tell, he says, that Price was somehow more mature than the other 1960s pop stars on that teen-centric show.
R&B singer Lloyd Price, who recorded "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" and "Personality," died Thursday at age 88. He is one of the founding fathers of rock-and-roll