| "K. C. Loving" | |
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| Single by Little Willie Littlefield | |
| B-side | "Pleading at Midnight" |
| Released | 1952 |
| Recorded | Los Angeles, August 12, 1952 |
| Genre | R&B |
| Label | Federal |
| Songwriter(s) | Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller |
| Official audio | |
| "K. C. Loving" on YouTube | |
"Kansas City" is a rhythm and blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952.[1] First recorded by Little Willie Littlefield the same year, as "K. C. Loving", the song later became a chart-topping hit when it was recorded by Wilbert Harrison in 1959. "Kansas City" is one of Leiber and Stoller's "most recorded tunes, with more than three hundred versions",[2] with several appearing in the R&B and pop record charts.
- ^ Historian Gerard Herzhaft calls the 1927 blues song "Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues" a "remote cousin". Herzhaft, Gerard (1992). "Kansas City". Encyclopedia of the Blues. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press. p. 456. ISBN 1-55728-252-8.
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