Ohhh that Bad Eartha. 

Dig the Tiki hood ornament on Sammie's Cab. 

Lee Shelton (also known as Stagger Lee, Stagolee, Stackerlee, Stack O'Lee, Stack-a-Lee, Stack-Aly and by several other spelling variants) was a black cab driver and a pimp[1] convicted of murdering William "Billy" Lyons on Christmas Eve, 1895 in St. Louis, Missouri. The crime was immortalized in a blues folk song that has been recorded in hundreds of different versions.

Lee Shelton was not just a common pimp, but as described by Cecil Brown,[2] "Lee Shelton belonged to a group of pimps known in St. Louis as the 'Macks'. The macks were not just 'urban strollers'; they presented themselves as objects to be observed."

Here are several versions for todays first installment.

Enjoy...

The First rendition in from an album entitled: Mississippi and Louisiana State Penitentiaries Prisoners.

Click HERE to listen to Bama's version.

My Personal favorite version recorded by Bruce Jackson. (If you are familiar with Samuel Jackson's performance of this song in the amazingly fucking weird film Black Snake Moan, it becomes painfully apparent, that he is well familiar with Bruce Jackson's recording.)

Click HERE.

Wilbert Harrison's version. Obviously, quite similar to the most popular Loyd Price version.