| Poor Willie | |
| Cover: | Poorwilliepartyboys.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Parliaments |
| A-Side: | Poor Willie |
| B-Side: | Party Boys |
| Released: | 1959 |
| Genre: | Doo-wop |
| Length: | 2:17 |
| Label: | APT Records 45-25036 |
| Next Title: | Lonely Island |
| Next Year: | 1960 |
"Poor Willie" is the first single recorded commercially by The Parliaments. The single was released in 1959 by APT Records (APT 45-25036), a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records. Both songs were written by all of the Parliaments, which by this time consisted of George Clinton, Grady Thomas, Robert Lambert, and Charles Davis. The B-side of the single was entitled "Party Boys".[1]
The record was not a hit, but it has become a collector's item, fetching hundreds of dollars at record conventions and on eBay.[2]