WHO SHOT THE LA-LA

Created on 13/05/2006
Latest update on 26/10/2023

Artist: Oliver Morgan
Author: Burmak/Eddie Bocage/Therese Terry
Label: GNP Crescendo
Year: 1963

Hit in New Orleans. The real Prince Lala was a local artist, brother of Fats Domino's guitar player Papoose Nelson, who died mysteriously (see: She Put The Hurt On Me). Oliver Morgan claimed to know he was murdered by a dealer/creditor who gave him poisoned heroin, making the shot in the songtitle a 'hot shot'. Title of his '95 comeback album: I Know Who Shot Him. Morgan who was a neighbor of Fats Domino in the Lower Ninth Ward, lost everything in the flood in the wake of Katrina. Larry McKinley, a popular local DJ in New Orleans in those days, was co-credited as D. Burmak.

Covers:

1990:

Willy DeVille [with coauthor Eddie Bo on piano; also covers Eddie's Key To My Heart and Every Dog Got His Day on this album]

1996:

Untouchables

Lala's a New Orleans moniker since Storyville: Pete Lala's Manhattan Café (real name: Peter Ciachio) on the uptown/lake corner of Iberville & Marais was where all the local characters gathered to dirt dance round 4 am on the earliest jazz featuring King Oliver, Kid Ory, Freddie Keppard and Sidney Bechet.

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