AtPontchartrain
07-09-2007, 03:55 PM
... Since Price first wrote "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" in 1952, the song has been re-recorded 169 times by different music icons, including Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney, Little Richard, Mimi Hendrix, Fats Domino, Travis Tritt, and James Brown. Price was inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, but the man who became a multi-millionaire did not stop there.
In 1974, Price and Don King teamed together and co-produced a music festival and boxing event called a "Rumble in the Jungle" featuring Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman in Zaire, Africa. It became the world's first satellite transmitted live boxing event in history. "King and I are still the best of friends and we both were invited to George Bush's second inaugural festivities in January '05," Price said.
Price is now enjoying his food enterprise, which includes re-tailing products made from sweet potatoes, cereals, and cereal bars. His Lawdy Miss Clawdy Sweet Potato Cheesecakes and Lawdy Miss Clawdy Sweet Potato Cookies are sold in Wal-Mart stores.
"I took just the colorful box which packages the Lawdy Miss Clawdy Sweet Potato Cookies with my father's picture on the box to the Bentonville, Arkansas office of Wal-Mart," Price explained. "They were impressed just from looking at the packaging of the cookies...There were no cookies in the box...but we signed a contract." ....
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20070709m
In 1974, Price and Don King teamed together and co-produced a music festival and boxing event called a "Rumble in the Jungle" featuring Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman in Zaire, Africa. It became the world's first satellite transmitted live boxing event in history. "King and I are still the best of friends and we both were invited to George Bush's second inaugural festivities in January '05," Price said.
Price is now enjoying his food enterprise, which includes re-tailing products made from sweet potatoes, cereals, and cereal bars. His Lawdy Miss Clawdy Sweet Potato Cheesecakes and Lawdy Miss Clawdy Sweet Potato Cookies are sold in Wal-Mart stores.
"I took just the colorful box which packages the Lawdy Miss Clawdy Sweet Potato Cookies with my father's picture on the box to the Bentonville, Arkansas office of Wal-Mart," Price explained. "They were impressed just from looking at the packaging of the cookies...There were no cookies in the box...but we signed a contract." ....
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20070709m