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Written by: Price, Harold Logan
Produced by: Don Costa
Released: Nov. '58 on ABC-Paramount
Charts: 21 weeks
Top spot: No. 1
Stagger Lee was the original gangsta, celebrated by Delta bluesmen for decades before Price cut this song featuring Lee's bullet speeding through a victim and breaking a bartender's glass. When Price performed the song on American Bandstand, Dick Clark made him alter the lyrics so that Lee doesn't even draw his .44.
Appears on: Greatest Hits (Curb)