{"id":45,"date":"2009-07-24T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=45"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:17:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:17:35","slug":"lloyd-price-the-matt-the-cat-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2009\/07\/24\/lloyd-price-the-matt-the-cat-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Lloyd Price &#8211; The Matt The Cat Interview!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #3333ff;\">Mr. Personality<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Lloyd Price<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-179\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?attachment_id=179\"><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-192\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?attachment_id=192\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-192\" title=\"Lloyd Price With Matt The Cat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/lloyd-price-with-matt-the-cat-6-14-05-21.jpg\" alt=\"Lloyd Price visits with Matt The Cat\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">The Matt The Cat Interview<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3333ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">In his new book, <strong>Lloyd Price<\/strong> makes a convincing claim to be &#8220;The TRUE King Of The &#8217;50s&#8221;. After all, he was the cat who helped integrate the races when both black and white kids were dancing to and buying his 1952 smash, &#8220;Lawdy Miss Clawdy&#8221;. He was the first teenager to sell over a million copies of a record. He was barely in his 20s when he started his own record label. He was one of the first artists to get a lucrative deal from a record label and he dominated the pop and R&amp;B; charts at the end of the decade with &#8220;Stagger Lee&#8221;, &#8220;Personality&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m Gonna Get Married&#8221;. And now for the first time, <strong>Lloyd Price<\/strong> tells his <strong>OWN<\/strong> story in his <strong>OWN<\/strong> words to me, <strong>Matt The Cat.<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3333ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\"><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3333ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">This is the uncut, unadulterated, unabridged Lloyd Price interview, complete with his insight, his stories and his music. Lloyd talks about his entire career, from helping to invent rock n&#8217; roll with &#8220;Lawdy Miss Clawdy&#8221; to staging one of the biggest sporting events in history with &#8220;The Rumble In The Jungle&#8221;. It&#8217;s all here for you to enjoy.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 100%; color: #3333ff;\">At the end of the program, we&#8217;ll have a traditional <strong>Friday Night Cat Fight<\/strong> and a chance for <strong>YOU<\/strong> to <strong>VOTE <\/strong>for the <strong>TRUE KING<\/strong> of the &#8217;50s! <\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 100%; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\">Click Here To Hear Lloyd Price w\/ Matt The Cat<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<pre style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawdymissclawdy.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175\" title=\"lloydpricebanner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/lloydpricebanner.jpg\" alt=\"lloydpricebanner\" \/><\/a><\/pre>\n<pre style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Lloyd Price\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oldcrowfans.com\/archive\/images\/lloyd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"183\" \/><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-193\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?attachment_id=193\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-193\" title=\"The ORIGINAL Lawdy Miss Clawdy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/78specialtyprice.jpg\" alt=\"Lloyd Price&amp;squot;s ORIGINAL &quot;Lawdy Miss Claudy&quot; on a Specialty Records 78\" width=\"172\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/pre>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Personality Lloyd Price The Matt The Cat Interview \u00c2\u00a0 In his new book, Lloyd Price makes a convincing claim to be &#8220;The TRUE King Of The &#8217;50s&#8221;. 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