In article , Tedalvy wrote:
Which version of Stagger Lee? If my memory is correct, Stagger Lee by Lloyd
Price in January 1959 was the Number One Single in Billboard Magazine and there
were two versions (KFWB in L.A. played the one with the word GAMBLING in it; on
American Bandstand, Dick Clark played a version without the word GAMBLING in it
for the National Audience.)

Can anyone verify that there were two versions of Stagger Lee by Lloyd Price?

Could well have been a local cut job. I know very well that when Brown-Eyed
Girl came out, our station PD spent an hour or so carefully removing "Making
love in the green grass behind the stadium" and replacing it with another
line, with razor blade on 1/4". This is the version we aired.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."