 He also recorded the first version of the song "Kansas City" (originally issued as "K. C. Lovin'"), in 1952.Littlefield was born in El Campo, Texas, and grew up in Houston with his mother.By 1947, at the age of sixteen, he was already a local attraction in many of the clubs on Dowling Street in Houston and was recording for Eddie Henry, a local record shop proprietor who ran his own label, Eddie's Records.