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	Stagger Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stagger Lee (also known as Stagolee, Stack O'Lee, Stack-a-Lee and by several other spelling variants) was an African American murderer whose tawdry crime was immortalized in a blues folk song, which has been recorded in hundreds of different versions.
		There is speculation that "Stag O Lee" songs predated even the 1895 incident, and Lee Sheldon may have gotten his nickname from earlier folk songs.
		By the time that W.C. Handy wrote the explanation in the 1920s, "Stack O' Lee" was already familiar in United States popular culture, with recordings of the song made by such pop singers of the day as Cliff Edwards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stagger_Lee (938 words)

	Core Dump
		Now the story of Stagger Lee will be the subject of a graphic novel by Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix, which will be published in May. You can preview the first 16 pages of the book and see the cover on the blog.
		The “real” Stagger Lee, if such a person can said to exist, was a man named Lee Shelton who, on Christmas night 1895, walked into a St. Louis barroom and had a quarrel with one Billy Lyons.
		Lee Shelton was in and out of prison for the rest of his life, which ended in 1912.
	www.soltys.ca /coredump/2006/03/stagger-lee-graphic-novel.html (367 words)

	STAGGER LEE
		Stagger Lee had a consistently positive reception from pre-publication reviewers, and that trend has only continued since it’s been out in the world.
		The other major development is that the Stagger Lee graphic novel is going to be plugged in the June issue (on sale in May) of a well-known national magazine.
		Stagger Lee marks his slightly tardy comics rebirth for the new millennium.
	staggerlee.typepad.com (3986 words)

	Stagger Lee by Lloyd Price Songfacts
		The first had Stagger Lee and Billy gambling (Stagger Lee shot Billy at the end), the second, rushed out by ABC-Paramount after hearing complaints from radio listeners, had Stagger Lee and Billy arguing over a girlfriend, who goes back to Stagger at the end.
		While there were some rock'n'roll records hit the top spot before "Stagger Lee," they were the same versions at #1 as they were upon initial release.
		Stagger Lee was #1 on February 9, 1959 and stayed there for 4 weeks.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=1829& (984 words)

	The AKA Blues Connection
		Stagger Lee pulls a gun--sometimes identified as a.45, other times as a "smokeless.44"--on Billy who then pleads to be spared for the sake of his wife and children.
		In certain tellings of the story, Stagger Lee appears in hell after he is killed or executed, but is so "bad" that he takes control of the devil's kingdom and turns it into his own badman's paradise.
		Lee Shelton's killing of William Lyons may be the event that inspired the tale of Stagger Lee, but it is now only a small part of the badman's story, a story which has led me down many paths in the history of America and its music, culture and people.
	www.geocities.com /blueskat2000/stagger_lee_home.htm (1621 words)

	Stagger Lee: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A prison is a place in which people are confined and deprived of a range of liberties....
		The first published version of the song was done by folklorist John Lomax[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] in 1910.
		A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a boat or vessel that is propelled by steam power driving a propeller or paddlewheel....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stagger_lee.htm (1930 words)

	President's Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Stagger Lee is one of hundreds of pop songs from that era still rattling around in my head, but because I don’t pay much attention to lyrics, I mostly remember just the melodies.
		At its core, Stagger Lee is about the extraordinary lengths to which human beings will go to defend their personal dignity.
		In Stagger Lee, the person who refuses to allow himself to be disrespected is not an heroic, sympathetic figure.
	www.miami.muohio.edu /president/presidentsjournal/journal_entry5.cfm (1511 words)

	The Story of Stagger Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		From Ma Rainey to Archibald to Lloyd Price (and beyond) - there have been more than 250 recordings about Stagger Lee - and while the name Stagger Lee (or Stack O'Lee) is certainly an older nick name, the story dates from Christmas time in Saint Louis, 1895.
		For those interested in the history; Billy Lyons died from his wounds, and Stag Lee was tried for this killing.
		Tom wasn't aware that he was singing in Stagger Lee's old house.
	www.weeklybugle.com /music/story_of_stagger_lee.htm (603 words)

	Stagger Lee lives on / Author Cecil Brown probes the shooting behind the songs
		Lee Shelton, a pimp called Stack Lee, was convicted of the murder of William Lyons, whom Shelton shot with a.44 Smith & Wesson after Lyons took his Stetson hat in a downtown St. Louis saloon on Christmas night 1895.
		A song like "Stagger Lee" is to fl culture what "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is to white America, an archetype that encompasses the past, present and future.
		To Brown, the exchange between Stagger Lee and Billy Lyons goes to the heart of the fl American experience.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/07/13/PK134355.DTL&type=printable (692 words)

	Lee stagger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Stagger lees is a crazy person and it threw to my billy d.
		The song that the sung woman was cautious towards outside staggers lees.
		Huey Lewis And The News – Stagger Lees
	stagger.flotravel.info /lee-stagger.htm (387 words)

	Stagger Lee Review - Silver Bullet Comics
		However, unlike its predecessors in the genre, the tale of Stagger Lee is less remembered for the murder itself and better known in popular culture as a blues song of which there are almost endless variations.
		Some great examples include a visual reinterpretation of Stagger Lee as sung about by The Clash or Shelton’s commentary on the role of the Stetson hat in the tales by concluding, “Me, I think it was all just product placement for ol’ man Stetson”.
		Stagger Lee is an instant classic with the potential to catapult both creators to superstar status, although I’d prefer if they pursued another project of this type.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/114848589477575.htm (561 words)

	Staggerlee Roots
		The Stacker Lee for whom the boat was named was a former Confederate soldier, and it seems doubtful that he would be the bad man immortalized in song.
		The earliest version of Stagger Lee as neither a blues nor a white folk song, and an obvious bridge to the later rock versions, was Lloyd Price's version, which was a hit in 1959.
		Stagger Lee was a member of the urban blues tradition.
	www3.clearlight.com /~acsa/stagroot.htm (3359 words)

	Cobb: Stagger Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		With this record, "Stagger Lee" was reshaped from a cautionary blues ballad to an aggressive rock 'n' roll song.
		On the other hand, Stagger Lee was indeed on the fl IQ test and on page 50 of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature.
		The Stagger Lee character in this article is a fellow (er, felon, rather), described as "Johnny Mack McCullough, 49, of 530 Martin Luther King Jr.
	www.mdcbowen.org /cobb/archives/001940.html (890 words)

	"MR. MUSIC"
		Lee was quickly arrested while Lyons was taken to the Dispensary, where he died.
		Stag Lee's first trial ended in a hung jury, though he was convicted of the killing in a retrial and sent to prison.
		Dozens of recordings came out between the mid-'20s and 1950 — with titles such as “Stagger Lee; Stackerlee; Stagolee; Stackalee; Billy Lyons and Stack O'Lee; ” etc. — but the next one to become a hit is by Archibald and His Orchestra.
	www.jerryosborne.com /10-17-05.htm (797 words)

	STLtoday - Entertainment - Bars & Clubs
		The song is based on a real incident that occurred in St. Louis during the early part of the 20th Century — in fact, the building that used to be Stagger Lee’s house is still downtown, right near the Post-Dispatch building.
		“Stagger Lee’s an old song from the 50s, and my name is Lee, so that’s how it all coincides together,” explains Lee Williams, who has owned and managed the club for eleven years.
		The other things that set Stagger Lee’s apart from other Soulard bars (besides the lack of those hallmark brick walls, dark wood accents and a Golden Tee machine) is their 3 a.m.
	www.stltoday.com /stltoday/entertainment/guides.nsf/barsclubs/guide/3DA7B751E1D54E0C86256AC0006B2C5B?OpenDocument (982 words)

	Stagger Lee
		"Stagger Lee was basically an afterthought for The Bad Seeds: we had basically recorded the Murder Ballads record and I was sitting in the studio, reading a book that Jim Sclavunos [the percussion in the Bad Seeds] had found about the folk poetry of fl hustlers, and I came across this version.
		There's a verse to our version of Stagger Lee that goes "I'm the kind of cocksucker that would crawl over 50 good pussies to get to one fat boy's asshole", which I heard on an amazing talking blues song by a guy who, in the song, introduces himself as Two-time Slim.
		One serious attempt to ascertain the possible historical existence of Stacker Lee was made, in an article by Richard E. Buehler, "Stacker Lee: a Partial Investigation into the Historicity of a Negro Murder Ballad," published in the Keystone Folklore Quarterly in the Fall, 1967 issue (pp.
	www.bad-seed.org /~cave/info/songs/mb_staggerlee.html (1789 words)

	Kempa.com: Stagolee
		One of these songs was 'Stagger Lee' by Lloyd Price (mp3).
		Brown contextualizes the events with excerpts from courtroom records and newspaper articles of the day, and examines the permutations of specific facts and non-facts that made their way into different early versions of the song.
		Cecil Brown attributes the 'stag' of 'stagolee to slang - Lee Shelton was apparently a pimp of sorts.
	www.kempa.com /blog/archives/000066.html (817 words)

	[Dixielandjazz] Stack 'o' Lee or variations on a theme!
		One of the witnesses claimed that after he was shot, Billy "staggered against the side of the bar, leaned against the railing, holding the hat in his fingers…it seemed he was getting weak, and he let the hat drop out of his hands.
		The term and the concept of the modern-day "mack" celebrated in hip-hop are a retrieval of the old cliché of the St Louis mack that Lee Shelton once embodied.
		Just like Stag Lee himself, there seems to be no limits to how evil this song can become." I think Cave captures the coldness and ruthlessness of the archetype quite successfully and it shows that even after more than 100 years, the myth of Stagolee is a powerful as it ever was.
	ml.islandnet.com /pipermail/dixielandjazz/2003-December/015488.html (1340 words)

	Tommy Roe - STAGGER LEE
		Stagger Lee threw seven, Billy swore that he threw eight
		Stagger Lee went to the barroom and he stood across the barroom door
		Stagger Lee shot Billy, oh he shot that poor boy so bad
	members.aol.com /deafdude2/lyric/lyrics/stagger_lee.htm (170 words)

	The Official Stagger Lee Website
		Stagger Lee was formed in April of 1981 and for many years has performed quality music for thousands of loyal fans.
		From the clubs and concerts of the tri-state area to the recording studios of Nashville, through it all, one thing still remains the same -- Stagger Lee has always followed their heart.
		Our first CD (Stagger Lee) and our new CD (Ole Side of Town) are now on sale wherever Stagger Lee plays.
	staggerleeband.net (271 words)

	Stagger Lee \| The Story and the Songs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On a winter night in 1895 Lee Sheldon and Billy Lyons got into a fight over a Stetson hat.
		This true, and seemingly mundane, story soon became legendary and has inspired hundreds of recordings of the song known as "Stagger Lee," "Stagolee," "Stack 'O Lee," and other variations.
		This website is dedicated to the story and the songs of Stagger Lee.
	www.stagolee.org (61 words)

	Stagger Lee
		Based on the traditional song "Stagger Lee", "Stagolee" or "Stack O'Lee." Hunter's solo version was re-ordered and Garcia rewrote the music for the Grateful Dead's version::
		Stagger Lee is a mad man, and he shot my Billy dead
		As Stagger Lee lit a cigarette, she shot him in the balls (note 2)
	www3.clearlight.com /~acsa/songfile/STAGGERL.HTM (830 words)

	Stackalee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		American Folk: as Stagger Lee: Negro Prison Songs from the Mississippi State Penitentiary (TRD 1020a); as Stack O'Lee: (Doc and Merle Watson (VG 6576c); as Stagolee Was a Bully (Uncle John Patterson (FW 34162c).
		Bluegrass: as Stagger Lee: Tim and Molly O'Brien (SGH 3804c).
		Jazz: as Stagger Lee: The Quartet (UA 5514a); Zim Zimarel (VG 246c); as Stack O'Lee Blues: Cab Calloway (Classics 526c); Duke Ellington (COL 46177c).
	www.folkways.si.edu /learn_discover/anthology/liner_notes/track_19.html (491 words)

	Amazon.com: Hillbilly Heroin: Music: Stagger Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hillbilly Heroin is truly a testament to Stagger Lee's life in New York City.
		Stagger Lee refers to himself as a "Poor man's Kerouac" from the wrong side of the track.
		There is a little bit of Stagger Lee in all of us.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000CC3PE4?v=glance (417 words)

	NEWSARAMA.COM: PREVIEWING STAGGER LEE
		The subject of the graphic novel, Stagger Lee, has also been the subject of many songs over the years, recorded by artists ranging from Lloyd Price (in 1959) to Wilson Pickett and the Grateful Dead.
		Central to many versions of the story is the involvement of Lee’s hat – which Lyons reportedly took.
		This is the true story of what happened after Stagger Lee shot Billy.
	www.newsarama.com /ImageComics/StaggerLee/StaggerLeePre.htm (235 words)

	Stagger Lee \| books : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
		The tale of Stagger Lee — or ''Stagolee,'' or ''Staggerlee,'' or ''Stack-A-Lee,'' depending on what version of the story is being sung — has proven remarkably durable, and McCullough and Hendrix explore the tale from many angles.
		As a work of scholarship as well as a roaring good tale, Stagger Lee is one of the finest graphic novels of the year.
		The original song was STACK O LEE so the Stag Lee may have come from STAGGER LEE the song from the 50s...Lloyd Price...big hit for him.
	www.ew.com /ew/article/review/book/0,6115,1201847_5_0_,00.html?cid=recirc\|aolCelebrity (743 words)

	StagoleeShotBilly.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Delving into a subculture of St. Louis known as "Deep Morgan," Cecil Brown emerges with the facts behind the legend to unfold the mystery of Stack Lee and the incident that led to murder in 1895.
		In a St. Louis tavern on Christmas night in 1896 Lee Shelton (a pimp also known as Stack Lee) killed William Lyons in a fight over a hat.
		His name is usually given as Stagolee, though sometimes it's Stagger Lee, or Stack O'Lee.
	www.stagoleeshotbilly.com (1783 words)

	Stagger Lee gig news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Turned up minus Mike the guitarist and took the crowd out with bravado and a bevvy of telling tunes that loudly pushed a willing audience and gave them something to hum about later to those unfortunate enough not to have been there.
		'Stagger Lee (...) grew after a sudden burst of genius with the memorising [sic] 'The Ballad of Billy Lyons', 'Take a Little Light' and then to finish up with the awe inspiring 'Never Wake Up' which had everyone trance fixed, a bright prospect indeed.'
		'Support band Stagger Lee are a mix of moody Doves-esque melodies and tortured lyrics.
	www.staggerlee.org.uk /news.html (364 words)

	Behind The Hits: "Stagger Lee"
		Part of his stage act involved the Lee and Billy story, as Lloyd recalled: "There were hundreds of lyrics for the old song, but no story.
		But it soon became a sensation when deejays discovered "Stagger Lee" on the flip, at one point selling nearly 200,000 copies a day -- and rapidly shot to #1 on the pop charts.
		Stagger Lee and Billy actually make up and become friends again; too bad the real-life Billy Lyons wasn't that lucky!
	www.bobshannon.com /stories/Stagger.html (968 words)

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