Lloyd Price from Louisiana had a huge hit with 'Stagger Lee', that stayed at the top of the US charts for 4 weeks on 5 January 1959.
Three months later, in May 1959, Price took 'Personality' to #2 for 3 weeks. Even though 'Personality' was barred from being #1 in the USA it was a world wide hit.
But in Brazil, when it came time for Polydor to release Mr Price's ABC-Paramount recording it was beat by RGE, a local independent label which was faster and put out their version of 'Personality' covered by a Caribbean guy named Don Taylor. Mr Taylor did his cover for a small French label called Versailles.
Here are some of Don Taylor's releases for the above mentioned Versailles label.
Does anybody out there in this big wide world know something about this man called DON TAYLOR?
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Lloyd Price's original 'Personality' released by Polydor in Brazil.
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