Poor Willie
1959 single by The Parliaments
"Poor Willie" | ||||
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Single by The Parliaments | ||||
A-side | "Poor Willie" | |||
B-side | "Party Boys" | |||
Released | 1959 | |||
Genre | Doo-wop | |||
Length | 2:17 | |||
Label | APT Records 45-25036 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Charles Davis Robert Lambert Grady Thomas D. Mitchell George Clinton | |||
The Parliaments singles chronology | ||||
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"Poor Willie" is the first single recorded commercially by The Parliaments. The single was released in 1959 by APT Records (APT 45-25036), a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records. Both songs were written by all of the Parliaments, which by this time consisted of George Clinton, Grady Thomas, Robert Lambert, and Charles Davis. The B-side of the single was entitled "Party Boys".[1]
The record was not a hit, but it has become a collector's item, fetching hundreds of dollars at record conventions and on eBay.[2]
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The Parliaments
- George Clinton
- Ray Davis
- Fuzzy Haskins
- Calvin Simon
- Grady Thomas
- Eddie Hazel
- Tawl Ross
- Tiki Fulwood
- "Poor Willie"
- "Lonely Island"
- "Heart Trouble"
- "(I Wanna) Testify"
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