Here's Larry Williams
1959 studio album by Larry Williams
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Here's Larry Williams is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Larry Williams, released by Specialty Records in 1959.[1][3] The album includes two of Williams's hit singles, "Short Fat Fannie" and "Bony Moronie", and also features the song "Dizzy, Miss Lizzy", which would later be covered by the Beatles.[4]
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| Released | 1959 | |||
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| Length | 25:54 | |||
| Label | Specialty | |||
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Critical reception
AllMusic's Stewart Mason wrote of the album: "Listening to these tracks, it's clear why John Lennon was such a huge Larry Williams fan; his rough-and-ready no-bull voice is elastic enough to move from a Little Richard trill to a Ray Charles growl, and songs like 'Dizzy, Miss Lizzy' and 'Short Fat Fannie' are raucous enough to be punk rock nearly a full two decades before the concept was even in existence."[5]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Short Fat Fannie" | 2:21 |
| 2. | "Make a Little Love" | 1:59 |
| 3. | "Hootchy-Koo" | 2:32 |
| 4. | "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" | 2:10 |
| 5. | "Peaches and Cream" | 1:59 |
| 6. | "Give Me Love" | 2:00 |
| Total length: | 13:01 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Bony Moronie" | 2:40 |
| 2. | "Little School Girl" | 1:51 |
| 3. | "Dizzy, Miss Lizzy" | 2:09 |
| 4. | "Teardrops" | 2:20 |
| 5. | "You Bug Me, Baby" | 1:50 |
| 6. | "Ting a Ling" | 2:03 |
| Total length: | 12:53 | |