Retro Redux: Goin’ To Kansas City With Wilbert Harrison
I'll have to confess that I didn't know much about Wilbert Harrison when I first heard him singing "
Kansas City,
" and in all honesty I don't think that I made much of an effort to find out at that time. In those days I was mostly just into enjoying the music, and his signature song immediately caught my attention and became one of my favorites.
That song reached number one on the charts in 1959, and was such a landmark performance that it probably helped create an unfair image of the singer/composer as a one-hit wonder. But he was actually a very versatile performer who recorded a number of good songs through the years, including "Stagger Lee," (video below) and "Let's Work Together," which was also a hit for Canned Heat.
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