376 Lloyd Price (1933- ) “Stagger Lee” 1959

“Price found himself on the wrong side of a real life ‘Stagger Lee’ situation when he opened Lloyd Price's Turntable nightclub on the former site of Birdland at 52nd Street and Broadway in the late ‘60s. He and longtime partner Harold Logan would get threatening calls for a year: ‘There are bullets with your names on it.’ Price ignored the calls, until Logan was found shot to death in 1969 in their office at the club. He says that after representatives of both the Harlem mob and the Italian mafia visited Price shortly after the killing to offer their ‘support’ if he decided to join their team, he got out of the nightclub business, and New York” (Wayne Robins, Billboard, 2013). 

Lloyd Price “Stagger Lee”