Little Willie Littlefield Going Back To Kay Cee (CD)

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(1952-53 'Federal') (51:58/19) Um die Urheberschaft von 'K.C. Lovin'' oder 'Kansas City',... more

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Little Willie Littlefield: Going Back To Kay Cee (CD)

(1952-53 'Federal') (51:58/19) Um die Urheberschaft von 'K.C. Lovin'' oder 'Kansas City', einem der größten R&B-Erfolge aller Zeiten, stritt er sich mit dem Autoren-Duo Leiber & Stoller. Er behauptete, es geschrieben und dann an die beiden verkauft zu haben; Leiber/Stoller hingegen sagen, das Stück selbst komponiert zu haben ... Die Originalversion von 1952 und eine Overdub-Version von 1959 sind beide hier enthalten. Großartiger R&B / He claimed to have written and later sold 'K.C. Lovin'', one of the biggest r&b hits of all times. But also Leiber/Stoller say they wrote the tune ... The original recording of 'Kansas City', as the song later was called, as well as an overdub version from 1959 are included here. Superb r&b.

Article properties: Little Willie Littlefield: Going Back To Kay Cee (CD)

Interpret: Little Willie Littlefield
Album titlle: Going Back To Kay Cee (CD)
Genre Blues
Label Ace Records
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0029667150323
weight in Kg 0.107

Littlefield, Little Willie - Going Back To Kay Cee (CD) CD 1
01	Turn The Lamp Down Low (& LITTLE ESTHER)	Little Willie Littlefield
02	Last Laugh Blues (& LITTLE ESTHER)	Little Willie Littlefield
03	Monday Morning Blues (& LIL GREENWOOD)	Little Willie Littlefield
04	Striking On You Baby	Little Willie Littlefield
05	Blood Is Redder Than Wine	Little Willie Littlefield
06	K.C. Lovin'	Little Willie Littlefield
07	Pleading At Midnight	Little Willie Littlefield
08	Kansas City (K.C. Lovin' with overdub)	Little Willie Littlefield
09	The Midnight Hour Was Shining (take 2)	Little Willie Littlefield
10	Miss K.C.'s Fine	Little Willie Littlefield
11	The Midnight Hour Was Shining	Little Willie Littlefield
12	Rock-A-Bye Baby	Little Willie Littlefield
13	Sitting On The Curbstone	Little Willie Littlefield
14	Jim Wilson's Boogie	Little Willie Littlefield
15	My Best Wishes And Regards	Little Willie Littlefield
16	(Please Don't Go) O-O-O-Oh	Little Willie Littlefield
17	Falling Tears	Little Willie Littlefield
18	Goofy Dust Blues	Little Willie Littlefield
19	Don't Take My Heart Little Girl	Little Willie Littlefield

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Little Willie Littlefield

The proverbial child prodigy, Little Willie Littlefield so thoroughly absorbed the thundering piano prowess of his hero Albert Ammons that he was rocking houses on Houston's Dowling Street in his mid-teens. His penchant for romping boogies made him a natural answer to fellow Houstonian Amos Milburn, then a red-hot hitmaking commodity, so Modern Records swept him up in 1949 and brought him to L.A. His habit of setting piano triplets against a blues backbeat was soaked up down in New Orleans by Fats Domino, who made it a primary facet of his sound

The native of El Campo, Texas (where he was born September 16, 1931) made his first 78s for Eddie Henry, the owner of Eddie's Record Shop on Dowling, who was so taken by Willie's sound that he launched his self-named Eddie's label to introduced Littlefield to the public, starting with Little Willie's Boogie in '48. Then Jules Bihari came to Houston and heard Little Willie at the El Dorado Ballroom. His first Modern hit in '49, It's Midnight, was done in Houston with future Ray Charles saxman Donald Wilkerson in the band, but subsequent Littlefield releases were cut on the coast. That includes Hit The Road, a self-penned jump (Jules Bihari appended his writing sobriquet to this one too) cut December 11, 1949 in L.A., that features some trebly in-your-face guitar, maybe by Chuck Norris.

Willie managed two more R&B chart entries, Farewell and I've Been Lost, before exiting Modern in 1952 and moving over to Federal Records. There he waxed the original version of Kansas City as K.C. Loving (somehow it avoided the charts altogether), as well as such memorable titles as The Midnight Hour Was Shining and Sitting On The Curbstone. While living in the Bay Area, Willie turned up on Don Barksdale's Rhythm logo with Ruby Ruby in 1957, then spent much of the next two decades entertaining San José supper club patrons. Littlefield moved to the Netherlands in the '80s and has undergone quite a career revival since then, playing prestigious festivals worldwide (including the Ponderosa Stomp and the Chicago Blues Festival in 2009).

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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