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Despite a request to have written more than five thousand songs, recorded works Dicky Williams have been somewhat sporadic since
its inception in 1960, but, like London buses, if you wait long enough, two arrive together. With a country album-oriented
Waiting in the wings and a blues project with the group of Ken Massey nearing completion, Dicky Williams is to be back in a big
way.

Born in Snow Hill, NC, January 6, 1938, Dicky Williams said in the cellar of his early years as a singer and
player piano ... My been singing professionally in the U.S. Army, but I started singing when I was about six or seven years -
My mother taught me to sing Country & Western. When I arrived in the army, they needed musicians to entertain. I could not play
then, and I really could not sing well, but I raised my hand anyway. And they said, Mr. Williams, you can play and I said, yes
sir. I lied! My father played a little piano, but it was not an expert and I could not play a note. I had one of my friends called Dalton,
Chicago. He said, you are hiring, but you can not play and I said, I know, but you can if you're going to have to teach me. So I
learned to play Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino, then I graduated from Blue Monday, also by Fats Domino. As I went on tour
Germany - Nuremberg we started - I learned to play Got A Woman by Ray Charles. These three songs I've taken all the more
Europe! Fats Domino and Ray Charles were definitely my influences and Dalton was a good teacher. I tried to get away with some
things, but it n ¹ t let me. Although, when I started playing the piano, I could use two fingers - but I graduated in three!

Dicky laughed as he remembered his sense play the piano, but it was enough to inspire him to start composing. My summer
learn to play the piano one weekend is when I started and, over the years, I wrote many many songs. I wrote
five miles.

His stay in the U.S. Army during Dicky Williams moved to Washington DC where he met producer, Bill Boskent, which sought to
hire a piano player and has not been hampered by Dicky ¹ s achievements limited. Bill was Director Boskent Lloyd Price, he advised. I
was about twenty years I think. They were going to save Stagger Lee by Lloyd Price. He had not touched for a year or so, so
they needed him a new record. The bill says, how do you respond Lloyd? I said, I would like to respond to Lloyd, they said, come and
see how we do it. So I said, okay, because it was an interesting experience for me and I've been reviewing the issue and made a
suggestion. I said, well, people have a horn things, things with two horn all the time, I think you should put more horns in.
They said, what, three or four? I said no, we're going to do something different, I think you should put a dozen! I thought everyone
It was crazy - I felt myself crazy at this point. Everyone thought I was out of my head, but Bill asked if we could do. He said, wait,
hear what he says. So they listened and they said, well, we'll see if we can get the Ray Charles Band. And they got Ray Charles
band and they got to Raelets the background. That's how Stagger Lee came out that way.

Dicky continued: He worked with Bill as a piano player, that's what took me two to three fingers. I said, I can not play your
stuff. He said, just go do the best you can. And as I played, I sang. He said, can you sing this song and I said, I can sing
I can play better. And he gave me another song to sing and I sing. He said, W.