Lloyd Price's Birth Card: The Ace of Spades

In the record

Lloyd Price (March 9, 1933 – May 3, 2021) was an American R&B and rock and roll singer known as "Mr. The birth-card coordinate for March 9 is the Ace of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1998 Performers induction.

Rock Hall record

• 1998 Performers — Lloyd Price

The Ace of Spades coordinate

Lloyd Price's birthday maps to the Ace of Spades (The Truth Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Lloyd Price. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard.

Live Ace of Spades meaning page

Lloyd Price in the public record

Personality" after his 1959 million-selling hit, "Personality". His first recording, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy", was a hit for Specialty Records in 1952. He continued to release records, but none were as popular until several years later, when he refined the New Orleans beat and achieved a series of national hits. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Price was born on March 9, 1933, and raised in Kenner, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. His mother, Beatrice Price, owned the Fish 'n' Fry Restaurant. Price picked up lifelong interests in business and food from her. He and his younger brother Leo were both musical.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Lloyd Price (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 7 of Hearts

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Lloyd Price, and not a forecast of induction.

You look at love clearly without using analysis as a way not to feel it. You're wired to look beneath the surface of feeling, to seek the truth under the romance. You bring reflection and wisdom to love, asking what's real rather than what's merely pleasant. You can see emotional patterns others miss.

Greil Marcus, in a critical analysis of the song's history, wrote that Price's version was an enthusiastic rock rendition, "all momentum, driven by a wailing sax." In all of these early recordings by Price ("Personality", "Stagger Lee", "I'm Gonna Get Married", and others) Merritt Mel Dalton was the lead sax player; he was also in the traveling band and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show with Price.

Paired on shared wording: analysis, others.

Also on the record

1. He had formal training on trumpet and piano, sang in his church's gospel choir, and was a member of a combo in high school.
2. Art Rupe, the owner of Specialty Records, based in Los Angeles, came to New Orleans in 1952 to record the distinctive style of rhythm and blues developing there, which had been highly successful for his competitor Imperial Records.
3. Rupe heard Price's song "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" and wanted to record it.
4. Because Price did not have a band, Rupe hired Dave Bartholomew to create the arrangements and Bartholomew's band (plus Fats Domino on piano) to back Price in the recording session.

Other inductees with this card

• Bill Ward — 2006 Performers with Black Sabbath
• Billy Powell — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Charlie Thomas — 1988 Performers with The Drifters
• Curtis Mayfield — 1991 Performers with The Impressions; 1999 Performers
• Dave Alexander — 2010 Performers with The Stooges
• Debbie Harry — 2006 Performers with Blondie
• Gene Vincent — 1998 Performers; 2012 Performers with The Blue Caps
• Jarobi White — 2024 Performers with A Tribe Called Quest
• John Cale — 1996 Performers with The Velvet Underground
• Michael Clarke — 1991 Performers with The Byrds
• Missy Elliott — 2023 Performers
• Sheryl Crow — 2023 Performers
• 3 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Lloyd Price's birth card?

The Ace of Spades. March 9 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Lloyd Price's dates come from?

Birth date 1933-03-09 is the day-precision date on Lloyd Price's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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