B-side "Slow Down" Format 7" single Writer(s) Larry Williams | Released March 1958 Genre Rock and roll | |
Label Specialty 626 (USA)
London HLU 8604 (UK) | ||
"Dizzy, Miss Lizzy" is a song composed and recorded by Larry Williams in 1958. It shares many similarities with the Little Richard song "Good Golly Miss Molly".
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Williams' version
Williams recorded the song at Radio Recorders studio in Hollywood, California on February 19, 1958.
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Cover versions
The song has been covered many times, including, most famously, by the Beatles on the 1965 Help! album (released as "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"). The recording was initially intended for the 1965 American album Beatles VI, along with the Larry Williams cover, "Bad Boy", recorded by the group on the same day. Paul McCartney has stated that he believes this song to be one of the Beatles' best recordings. It features loud, rhythmic instrumentation, along with John Lennon's rousing vocals.
Ian MacDonald criticised the song as "an unprepossessing shambles of ersatz hysteria and jumbled double-tracking", saying it was "little better" than Williams' "drab twelve-bar boogie" original.
"Dizzy Miss Lizzy" also appeared in a live solo version by Lennon on the Plastic Ono Band's Live Peace in Toronto 1969.
In 1965, it was covered by The Fabulous Echoes, on their LP album Lovin' Feeling, with the Hong Kong-based Diamond Records.