Like previous #1-hit subject Tom Dooley, Stagger Lee (or "Stagolee," or "Stack-O-Lee," depending on which version you prefer) was a real person. Lee Shelton was a St. Louis pimp and gambler who, in ...

This week’s “All The Years Live” video from Grateful Dead HQ features a 7/1/92 “Stagger Lee,” filmed live at Buckeye Lake Music Center in Thornville, Ohio. “Debuting in 1978, ‘Stagger Lee’ was a ...

Singer-songwriter Lloyd Price, an early rock ‘n roll star and enduring maverick whose hits included such up-tempo favorites as “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality” and the semi-forbidden “Stagger Lee,” ...