Leo Price

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Little Leo Price (* 1935 in Kenner , Louisiana ) is an American rhythm and blues musician and songwriter.

Price is the younger brother of Lloyd Price , with whom he formed his first band. Leo Price chose drums as the instrument. Lloyd recalls: “One day when I was jumbling around on the keys, my little brother Leo brought a cardboard beer crate, sat down next to me and began to hit it with a stick. At the time I didn't know what the role of drummer meant, but Leo had rhythm and taught me what I now know as 'timing'. ”After rehearsing together in the school's music room, the owner of the local club, Morgan's, became aware of the boys and after a while hired her to perform on Friday evening. Even the violent intervention of the father could not stop the 14-year-old young drummer from doing so.

With his world success Lawdy Miss Clawdy , Lloyd left the tranquil Kenner in 1952 and Leo initially devoted himself to songwriting. So he wrote for his brother Ain't It a Shame and recorded a demo tape entitled Wish You Were Here , which was revised by John Marascalco and recorded as Send Me Some Lovin ' by Little Richard . The BMI awarded both songs with a prize. A demo recording of Send Me Some Lovin ' sung by Price first appeared on the 1992 sampler Creole Kings of New Orleans . Another work for Little Richard was Can't Believe You Wanna Leave . In 1958, Leo Price interfered unsuccessfully in a dispute over the publishing rights for Sam Cooke's hit You Send Me between Cooke, its producer Bumps Blackwell and specialty boss Art Rupe , claiming that he originally wrote the song and that Cooke had illegally contributed to it Keen Records recorded. Under his own stage name Little Leo, Price released some singles for Meladee Records , Hull Records and Mascot Records . A total of 21 songs are registered in his name as a songwriter at BMI. In 2011 Little Leo performed at the 10th Ponderosa Stomp, a festival in New Orleans .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch ( https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VYPM-48T  : accessed 01 Oct 2012), Leo Price in household of Lewis Price, Kenner, Police Jury Ward 9, Jefferson, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 26-31B, sheet 3A, family 49, NARA digital publication T627, roll 1407.
  2. ↑ a b Little Leo on Ponderoa's Stomp
  3. ↑ Lloyd Price: Sumdumhonkey. Cool Titles, Beverly Hills 2015, p. 22.
  4. ↑ Lloyd Price: Sumdumhonkey. Cool Titles, Beverly Hills 2015, pp. 25f.
  5. ↑ Stuart Colman: The Killer Quillers. John Marascalco . In: Trevor Cajiao (Ed.): Now Dig This . No. 362 . Bensham, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear May 2013, pp. 13-16 (English).
  6. ↑ a b BMI search, accessed on May 16, 2015
  7. ^ Peter Guralnick: Dream Boogie. The Triumph of Sam Cooke . Abacus, London 2005, ISBN 0-349-11948-1 , pp. 246 (English).
  8. ↑ Documentation with photo
personal data
SURNAME Price, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Little Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rhythm and blues musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Kenner , Louisiana , United States