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The Explosive Little Richard is the first album by Little Richard for Okeh Records, produced by his long-time friend Larry Williams and Johnny "Guitar" Watson.The songs reflect the then-popular soul and Motown musical styles; no tracks were written by Richard.
This page is a discography for American musician Little Richard (1932–2020). Described as " the architect of rock and roll ", Little Richard was a pioneering singer-songwriter whose career also encompassed rhythm and blues , soul , and gospel .
Little Richard (titled Volume 2 in the UK) is the second album [2] ... Cash Box described the album as "in typical explosive Richard style". ...
His former Specialty labelmate Larry Williams produced two albums for Richard on Okeh - the studio release The Explosive Little Richard, which used a Motown-influenced sound and produced the modest charters "Poor Dog" and "Commandments of Love" and Little Richard's Greatest Hits: Recorded Live! which returned him to the album charts.
Esquerita started the 1970s in a positive way, contributing “Dew Drop Inn” and a co-write on “Freedom Blues”, to Little Richard's acclaimed comeback album for Reprise Records, The Rill Thing. Both tunes did well as Richard's first top 40 Soul and Top 50 Pop hit since the 1950s, “Freedom Blues”, the A-side .
– Little Richard That is quite a boast, even in the context of rock and roll (and a bit dubious, given that Ike Turner is more credibly acknowledged as the origin seed). But this documentary ...
Little Richard first achieved success after signing to Art Rupe's label Specialty Records and releasing the single "Tutti Frutti".A self-composed number which Richard had been performing live for some time, "Tutti Frutti" was recorded at J & M Studio, New Orleans in September 1955 after producer Robert "Bumps" Blackwell had Richard's ribald lyrics revised by songwriter Dorothy LaBostrie.
After the recording sessions for this album, (actually the result of Richard’s manager, Bumps Blackwell’s effort to convince European fans to petition Okeh Records to cut a live album), Richard recorded three more tracks for Okeh on May 17, 1967, one issued in 2004 ('Golden Arrow'), leaving the other two unreleased; then recorded six tracks in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago for the ...