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Price eventually formed KRC Records with Harold Logan and Bill Boskent.

The first single was " Just Because ".

It was picked up by ABC Records and from 1957 to 1959 Price recorded a series of national hits on ABC Records that were successful adaptations of the New Orleans sound, such as " Stagger Lee ", " Personality ", which reached # 2, and the # 3 hit " I'm Gonna Get Married ".

" Stagger Lee " topped the pop and R & B charts, sold over a million copies.

Dick Clark insisted the violent content of the song be toned down when Price appeared on American Bandstand but it was still the " violent " version that was on top of the R & B charts of 1959.

" Stack-o-Lee " is an old blues standard recorded many times previously by other artists.

Greil Marcus, in a critical analysis of the song's history, has written that Price's was an enthusiastic hard rock version with a screaming saxophone. In all of these early recordings of Lloyd Price, Merritt Mel Dalton was the lead Sax Man on the recordings of " Personality, Stagger Lee, I'm gonna get married etc ..," Merritt, was in the traveling band as well and appeared on the Ed Sullivan show with Lloyd Price .< ref >