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Little Richard: Little Richard - Rocks

1-CD-Album Digipac mit 36-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 72 minutes. 

The incomparable Little Richard blew the lid off the '50s! 16 US hits and all 14 of his Top 30 UK hits are here. Nothing before or since has sounded wilder than this. 'Mojo' magazine ranked 'Tutti Frutti' first in the '100 Records That Changed The World.' Lee Allen (saxophone),Frank Fields (bass), Earl Palmer (drums) and the rest of New Orleans's cornerstone session-men at their fiery best. Also includes tracks featuring Little Richard's ferocious road band, the fabulous Upsetters. The ultimate Little Richard collection and the working definition of rock 'n' roll on one tidy disc.

A wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom! At long last, our 'Rocks' series turns to Little Richard, one of the great innovators, a true auteur whose enduring series of smash hits on the Specialty label influenced the Western world's most popular artists including Elvis, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Pat Boone, Otis Redding, Prince and the Beatles. Little Richard started at the top and worked upwards. His deliriously frenzied singing and wild, propulsive piano playing fuelled a string of manic hits on both sides of the Atlantic, selling an estimated 18 million copies during the '50s. Tutti Frutti, Long Tall Sally, Lucille, Jenny Jenny,
Good Golly Miss Molly, Baby Face....these are the records that made the difference between R&B and primal rock 'n' roll and they're all here.

There's also a clutch of non-Specialty tracks of genuine worth including the jump blues, Get Rich Quick from 1951, the semi-secret I'm In Love Again issued under the name of the World Famous Upsetters in 1962, and Get Down With It, a rip-roaring rocker recorded in England in 1966. These add further dimension to a collection of paint-stripping intensity that no one has ever topped.

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Little Richard - Little Richard - Rocks CD 1
01Tutti FruttiLittle Richard
02Ready TeddyLittle Richard
03Slippin' And Slidin'Little Richard
04Long Tall SallyLittle Richard
05BabyLittle Richard
06Miss AnnLittle Richard
07True Fine MamaLittle Richard
08By The Light Of The Silvery MoonLittle Richard
09Kansas CityLittle Richard
10Rip It UpLittle Richard
11She's Got ItLittle Richard
12LucilleLittle Richard
13Heeby-JeebiesLittle Richard
14Hey-Hey-Hey-HeyLittle Richard
15Get Rich QuickLittle Richard
16I'll Never Let You Go (Boo Hoo Hoo Hoo)Little Richard
17Little Richard's BoogieLittle Richard
18All Around The WorldLittle Richard
19I Got ItLittle Richard
20Jenny, JennyLittle Richard
21Good Golly Miss MollyLittle Richard
22Baby FaceLittle Richard
23The Girl Can't Help ItLittle Richard
24Ooh! My SoulLittle Richard
25Keep A Knockin'Little Richard
26She Knows How To Rock (Rock Me)Little Richard
27Bama Lama Bama LooLittle Richard
28I'm In Love AgainLittle Richard
29Lawdy Miss ClawdyLittle Richard
30Dew Drop InnLittle Richard
31Get Down With ItLittle Richard
Little Richard   * 5. Dezember 1932  †  9. Mai 2020 LITTLE... more
"Little Richard"

Little Richard 

 * 5. Dezember 1932
 † 9. Mai 2020

LITTLE RICHARD OBITUARY

Unabashedly outrageous and utterly unafraid to push the envelope wherever he went, Little Richard rocked as hard as anyone on the planet during the initial mid-‘50s explosion of the revolutionary music. He threw down the gauntlet with his volcanic stream of hits for Art Rupe’s Specialty Records, torching one storming anthem after another until he flamed out in October of 1957 during an Australian tour; when he got home he renounced rock and roll and enrolled in Bible college. Of course, that retirement didn’t last for all that long. A few years later Richard was rocking even more flamboyantly than before. His death at age 87 on 9. Mai 2020
brought to a close one of the wildest sagas in the history of rock.

Born Richard Penniman in Macon, Georgia in December 5, 1932, the youth grew up in strongly religious surroundings, influenced musically by Brother Joe May, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Mahalia Jackson. Any prospects of becoming a young preacher were derailed when the youth embarked with a series of barnstorming medicine shows, sometimes performing in drag. Blues shouter Billy Wright became another primary influence, as did a certified wildman called Esquerita, who helped Richard polish up his boogie piano. Richard broke into singing R&B on the Atlanta club circuit, cutting his first sides for RCA Victor in 1951 (he debuted with the blues-drenched Every Hour). After four singles for RCA, Richard moved over to Don Robey’s Houston-based Peacock logo in 1953, but he was no luckier there from a commercial standpoint than at Victor. Richard already had the core of his blistering road band, The Upsetters, along whenever he toured.

Specialty star Lloyd Price helped Richard make contact with the label in early 1955. Rupe sent the piano pounder to New Orleans that fall to record at Cosimo Matassa’s studio with his vaunted house band, which included tenor saxist Lee Allen and drummer Earl Palmer. Producer Bumps Blackwell wasn’t hearing anything at the session that screamed hit, so he called for a lunch break at the Dew Drop Inn. Richard commandeered the joint’s piano and hammered out a raunchy ditty of his own making called Tutti Frutti. In vastly cleaned up form, the relentless rocker became Richard’s first smash late that year despite stiff competition from Pat Boone’s polite cover.

The floodgates crashed open, and Richard tore through like an out-of-control freight train. For a little more than two years, Richard was seldom absent from the rock and roll hit parade. Tutti Frutti was swiftly followed by Long Tall Sally and its flip Slippin’ And Slidin’, Rip It Up and its opposite side Ready Teddy, Lucille, Jenny, Jenny, Keep A Knockin’ (waxed with The Upsetters in Washington, D.C. instead of in the Crescent City with Cosimo’s regulars), and Good Golly, Miss Molly. By the time Miss Molly cracked the pop Top Ten and sailed even higher on the R&B charts in early ‘58, Richard was back in church. The days when he co-starred in the seminal rock and roll movies ‘Don’t Knock The Rock’ and ‘The Girl Can’t Help It’ were only a distant memory.

Although he made some gospel recordings for a variety of imprints during his secular hiatus, Richard flew mostly under the radar until he toured Europe in 1962 and began to seriously backslide. By 1964 he was back recording rock and roll for Specialty and then Vee-Jay, where he nailed a sizable R&B hit in 1965 with a solid slice of glorious soul, I Don’t Know What You’ve Got But It’s Got Me (Jimi Hendrix, then a member of Richard’s road band, was reportedly on guitar). The piano man sounded good singing soul during the mid-‘60s for OKeh and Brunswick, proving he could stay delightfully contemporary. As the decade progressed, Richard adopted a wilder persona that may have alienated some of his old fans but won him plenty of fresh notoriety as he made the talk show circuit on a regular basis.

There were more interruptions to Richard’s secular career—he retreated to the church anew in 1977, giving up drugs and alcohol in the process, but by the mid-‘80s he’d returned to the lucrative rock arena once more. In the end, Richard found he could juggle his evangelical activities with performing his old hits on a regular basis. Altogether unpredictable in live performance, he sometimes invited the entire audience to join him onstage for a number or two, much to the chagrin of the folks in charge of the venue. As late as 2013 Richard was still rocking, though hip problems slowed him down after that.

An indelible influence on everyone from Elvis Presley to The Beatles to James Brown and Otis Redding, Little Richard found a way to dedicate a good portion of his life to rock and roll while still serving his Lord.
--Bill Dahl

 

 

Rock 'n' roll fully exploded into the American consciousness in 1955. With his immortal proclamation "A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop, a-lop-bam-boom," Little Richard placed himself at its epicenter, his seismic impact akin to that of an atomic bomb.

It's not like he was alone in the vanguard of the primordial rock 'n' roll movement. Fats Domino crossed over to the pop airwaves with his Creole-inflected charmer Ain't It A Shame and Chuck Berry duck-walked to the head of the pack with his blazing Maybellene a few months before Richard's Tutti-Frutti crashed the R&B charts in late November of that historic year. Bill Haley & His Comets had already weighed in with the hard-hitting Rock Around The Clock, and Elvis had something going in Memphis that the world would very soon take enraptured notice of.

But none of those groundbreakers, seminal as they were, packed the same molten heat that Richard Penniman unleashed anytime he ventured near a microphone. His banshee screams were primal, his savage piano attack lethal, his energy levels stratospheric. Little Richard was the ultimate embodiment of rock 'n' roll, dangerous and a tad exotic and utterly without constraint. No wonder conservative Caucasian parents, secure until then in the bland, 'Your Hit Parade'-dominated sounds of the Eisenhower era, were scared out of their wits. Here was a figurehead whose crazed wails could shake teenagers' souls down to the very core.

Perhaps most amazing of all, Richard's principal legacy--the earthshattering smashes he made for Art Rupe's Los Angeles-based Specialty Records—was committed to tape in less than two years. In the autumn of '57, he renounced rock 'n' roll altogether after deciding the launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik signaled the impending end of the world. Thankfully, that bold prediction didn't come to pass, and Richard returned to rocking pursuits in years to come.

Richard Penniman hailed from a huge family. Born December 5, 1932 in Macon, Georgia, he was a mischievous lad. But he also sang gospel as a child, initially in an aggregation called the Tiny Tots as well as his family's group, the Penniman Singers. He found divine inspiration in the singing of sanctified stars Mahalia Jackson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Brother Joe May. At 14 he hooked up with Dr. Hudson's Medicine Show, a barnstorming troupe anything but sacred in content. There Richard belted Louis Jordan's Caldonia to rouse the onlookers. That led to a position as front man for B. Brown's orchestra, crooning pop fare. There was even a stint in a traveling minstrel show where he performed in a dress.

While working in a Georgia outfit known as the Broadway Follies, Penniman made his way to Atlanta, teeming with R&B joints up and down Auburn Avenue. Chuck Willis, Titus Turner, Tommy Brown, Clyde 'Blow Top' Lynn, Melvin Smith, and Zilla Mays were among the young performers on the Atlanta circuit. So was flamboyant singer Billy Wright, a direct influence on Richard vocally as well as in his presentation (Penniman even started using the same pancake makeup that Wright favored). Billy was only six-and-a-half months older than Richard but had gotten started a little quicker; he was 17 when he scored his first hits for Savoy Records in 1949.

Wright hooked Penniman up with WGST deejay Zenas Sears, fast becoming an R&B institution over the Atlanta airwaves. Sears was instrumental in connecting the 18-year-old singer with RCA Victor. On October 16, 1951, A&R man Steve Sholes—later Elvis' producer at RCA—met Richard at WGST to supervise his debut session (recording studios were in short supply down south). He was backed by a septet of Atlanta sessioneers led by trumpeter Roy Mays, Zilla's brother; Roy had previously played behind Richard at Bailey's 81 Theater on Decatur Street.

The first song Little Richard ever laid on tape was the rip-roaring Get Rich Quick, written by none other than erudite jazz critic Leonard Feather. With Julius Wimby punching the 88s (Richard hadn't seriously taken up the piano yet) and tenor saxist Fred Jackson, soon a stalwart of Willis' outfit, stepping up for a lusty three-chorus solo, Richard sounds very young but suitably enthusiastic, and the whole thing swings like crazy.

Nothing from the session made anything resembling a national impression, but local airplay was sufficient to send Richard on the road as front man for bassist Percy Welch's band. That didn't stop the young singer from engaging in other nocturnal activities. While hanging around Macon's Greyhound bus station one night, Richard encountered a personage even more flamboyant than he. This lad called himself Esquerita and was willing to show Richard how to beat the living hell out of a piano.

Despite losing his father in a senseless shooting incident at the elder Penniman's Tip In Inn, Richard persevered, though RCA dropped him after none of his four singles did appreciable business (he'd done a second session at WGST in January of '52). Times got hard for the Penniman family after its patriarch was murdered, forcing Richard to take a job washing dishes at the bus station. But powerful Macon promoter Clint Brantley rescued him from a dreary, soapy fate. Soon Richard was gigging at the prestigious New Era Club in Nashville.

A group called the Deuces of Rhythm rolled into the New Era one night and caught Richard's act. They were led by Raymond Taylor, gifted with the unusual ability to play trumpet, trombone, piano, and organ two at a time, and his drumming wife Mildred. The end result was Richard joining them as a member of a new vocal group, the Tempo Toppers. After a lengthy engagement at New Orleans' Club Tiajuana, the outfit moved on to the Club Matinee in Houston. There the Tempo Toppers were heard by Don Robey, the owner of Peacock Records. He did a session with them in February of 1953.

Minuscule sales figures befell the Tempo Toppers' pair of Peacock singles, and tough guy Robey beat Richard up one day in his office to boot. But there was an encore date in the offing for Richard, who split from the group and spent some time back in Macon before returning to Houston. Johnny Otis, one of the hottest bandleaders on the R&B scene thanks to his string of early '50s hits for Savoy, had been knocked out when he first saw the effeminate young singer at the Matinee and was in charge of the session. Otis had come aboard Peacock in 1952 and led the band on Big Mama Thornton's '53 R&B chart-topper Hound Dog, a landmark moment.

Otis' own horn-fueled orchestra sat behind Richard for his October 5, 1953, Peacock session at Bill Holford's ACA Studios in Houston. The last thing they laid on tape that day was the aptly titled houserocker Little Richard's Boogie. No shrinking violet, Richard happily introduces himself on the first stanza, the band adding hearty vocal call-and-response after that. After a muscular sax break that could be the work of James Von Streeter, Otis grabs 12 bars for his own vibes. Although Devonia Williams is officially credited as pianist for the track, that cascading run near the fade sounds a lot like what Richard would soon be up to at Specialty. Peacock wouldn't get around to releasing the exciting track until early 1956, when Richard was the hottest thing around thanks to Tutti-Frutti.

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Amazing! Unbelievable! The greatest rockin' voice of all-time! He's the greatest live performer of his generation! I'm sure there are a lot of people that feel the same way I do! He was an inspiration for a lot of rock performers like Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, James Brown, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ronnie Hawkins, Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Michael Jackson, Wilson Pickett, to name but a few! I read somewhere else that Mohammad Ali loves Little Richard's records and that's from THE GREATEST! The first rock and roll song I've ever heard was 'Lucille' and from that moment on I knew I'll always love rock and roll. My top five songs from Little Richard are 'Tutti-Frutti', 'Long Tall Sally', 'Ready Teddy', 'Good Golly Miss Molly' and, of course, 'Lucille'. A true revelation for me was to hear him singing 'True Fine Mama', 'Miss Ann', 'Little Richard's Boogie' and 'I Got It'. Perhaps the only major omission for this excellent CD was not to include 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On' recorded by Richard in 1957, but then again, that's just me being too ambitious! Thank you Bear Family Records for preserving the great 50's rockin' music alive! Terrific sound, great looks and above all great love and care in each and every one of your releases! Awop-Bop-A-Loo-Mop, A-Lop-Bam-Boom!

19 Feb 2013

Amazing! Unbelievable! The greatest rockin' voice of all-time! He's the greatest live performer of his generation! I'm sure there are a lot of people that feel the same way I do! He was an inspiration for a lot of rock performers like Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, James Brown, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ronnie Hawkins, Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Michael Jackson, Wilson Pickett, to name but a few! I read somewhere else that Mohammad Ali loves Little Richard's records and that's from THE GREATEST! The first rock and roll song I've ever heard was 'Lucille' and from that moment on I knew I'll always love rock and roll. My top five songs from Little Richard are 'Tutti-Frutti', 'Long Tall Sally', 'Ready Teddy', 'Good Golly Miss Molly' and, of course, 'Lucille'. A true revelation for me was to hear him singing 'True Fine Mama', 'Miss Ann', 'Little Richard's Boogie' and 'I Got It'. Perhaps the only major omission for this excellent CD was not to include 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On' recorded by Richard in 1957, but then again, that's just me being too ambitious! Thank you Bear Family Records for preserving the great 50's rockin' music alive! Terrific sound, great looks and above all great love and care in each and every one of your releases! Awop-Bop-A-Loo-Mop, A-Lop-Bam-Boom!

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Tracklist
Little Richard - Little Richard - Rocks CD 1
01 Tutti Frutti
02 Ready Teddy
03 Slippin' And Slidin'
04 Long Tall Sally
05 Baby
06 Miss Ann
07 True Fine Mama
08 By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
09 Kansas City
10 Rip It Up
11 She's Got It
12 Lucille
13 Heeby-Jeebies
14 Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey
15 Get Rich Quick
16 I'll Never Let You Go (Boo Hoo Hoo Hoo)
17 Little Richard's Boogie
18 All Around The World
19 I Got It
20 Jenny, Jenny
21 Good Golly Miss Molly
22 Baby Face
23 The Girl Can't Help It
24 Ooh! My Soul
25 Keep A Knockin'
26 She Knows How To Rock (Rock Me)
27 Bama Lama Bama Loo
28 I'm In Love Again
29 Lawdy Miss Clawdy
30 Dew Drop Inn
31 Get Down With It