{"id":174,"date":"2009-07-24T18:59:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T22:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/?p=174"},"modified":"2009-11-20T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T18:33:39","slug":"724-8709-lloyd-price-the-matt-the-cat-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/2009\/07\/24\/724-8709-lloyd-price-the-matt-the-cat-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"7\/24 &#8211; 8\/7\/09 &#8211; Lloyd Price: The Matt The Cat Interview!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Mr. Personality<\/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\/FNCF\/?attachment_id=179\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-192\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/?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\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/lloyd-price-with-matt-the-cat-6-14-05-21.jpg 461w, https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/lloyd-price-with-matt-the-cat-6-14-05-21-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\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;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In his new book, <strong>Lloyd Price<\/strong> makes a convincing claim to be &#8220;The TRUE King Of The &#8217;50s&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 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;.\u00c2\u00a0 He was the first teenager to sell over a million copies of a record.\u00c2\u00a0 He was barely in his 20s when he started his own record label.\u00c2\u00a0 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;.\u00c2\u00a0 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><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is the uncut, unadulterated, unabridged Lloyd Price interview, complete with his insight, his stories and his music.\u00c2\u00a0 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;.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s all here for you to enjoy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">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!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><div id=\"polls-30\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_30\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/FNCF\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_30_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"34a32611c7\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"30\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Which One Do You DIG The MOST? - \"Lawdy Miss Clawdy\"<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-30-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-86\" name=\"poll_30\" value=\"86\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-86\">Lloyd Price (1952)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-87\" name=\"poll_30\" value=\"87\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-87\">Elvis Presley (1956)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(30);\" onkeypress=\"poll_result(30);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(30); return false;\" onkeypress=\"poll_result(30); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-30-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<pre style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawdymissclawdy.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"571\" height=\"90\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175\" title=\"lloydpricebanner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/lloydpricebanner.jpg\" alt=\"lloydpricebanner\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/lloydpricebanner.jpg 571w, https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/lloydpricebanner-300x47.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Click above to learn more about Lloyd Price &amp; his new book.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Lloyd Price\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oldcrowfans.com\/archive\/images\/lloyd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"183\" \/>\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-193\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/?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's ORIGINAL &quot;Lawdy Miss Claudy&quot; on a Specialty Records 78\" width=\"172\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/78specialtyprice.jpg 774w, https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/78specialtyprice-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a><\/pre>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7312\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-174-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF38.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF38.mp3\">https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF38.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF38.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/?powerpress_pinw=174-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF38.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"FNCF38.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Personality Lloyd Price The Matt The Cat Interview In his new book, Lloyd Price makes a convincing claim to be &#8220;The TRUE King Of The &#8217;50s&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 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;.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9,40,39,8,16,13,7,41],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rb","tag-friday-night-cat-fight","tag-lawdy-miss-clawdy","tag-lloyd-price","tag-matt-the-cat","tag-podcast","tag-rhythm-blues","tag-rock-roll","tag-stagger-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/FNCF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}