Episode 76: “Stagger Lee” by Lloyd Price
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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The Great Staggley by Johnny Otis
Johnny Otis preserved many of these toasts in musical form on his snatch of the Puntang's album, including The Great Staggley. In nineteen fifty two with tapas, but I had a sword on shotgun on my deck of cards. That version was used as the basis for the most well-known recent-ish version of the song, the 1995 version by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
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