R&B singer-songwriter Lloyd Price is the major pop music pioneer you may not have heard of. Back in the 1950s and ’60s, he had a number of hits, most notably “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” and “Personality.” He appeared on national television (“The Ed Sullivan Show,” “American Bandstand”). He ran his own record company, Turntable Records, and his own club in Manhattan, The Turntable Club, the first Black-owned music club south of Harlem, with his friend and business partner Harold Logan. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. He passed away in 2021 at the age of 88.
But that’s too quick a summation of Price.
