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Little Richard's Greatest Hits (with various titles and cover art) is an album of Little Richard songs re-recorded in 1964 and first released in the US by Vee-Jay Records in January 1965. [1] It features updated versions of twelve of his best-known songs originally recorded in the 1950s for Specialty Records. [2]
1983: 20 Greatest Hits (Lotus) 1984: Little Richard's Greatest (Kent) 1985: 18 Greatest Hits (Rhino) 1985: The Essential Little Richard (Specialty) 1988: Lucille; 1991: The Georgia Peach (Specialty) 1996: Shag on Down by the Union Hall Featuring Shea Sandlin & Richard "The Sex" Hounsome; 1996: Little Richard's Grand Slam Hits (DIMI Music Group)
The Incredible Little Richard Sings His Greatest Hits – Live! is the first of two albums Little Richard made for the Modern Records label. A live recording from the Domino Club in Atlanta compiled from more than one concert, all the tracks on the album have overdubbed audience noises.
The syncopated horn charts, the chugging rhythm, the howling, pleading vocals, the sheer theatricality — Little Richard was an architect of all rock and roll that followed. Little Richard’s 10 ...
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 ...
In 2010, Time magazine listed Here's Little Richard as one of the 100 Greatest and Most Influential Albums of All Time. [62] Rolling Stone listed his Here's Little Richard at number fifty on the magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. [255] He was ranked eighth on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. [256]
Rock 'n' roll didn't start with a bang — it started with a wop-bop-a-loo-bop a lop-bom-bom.That's the propulsive beat that drives "Tutti Frutti," the 1955 chart-topping hit that made Richard ...
Little Richard re-recorded "Lucille", like many of his other hits, multiple times throughout his career. The first substantially different version of the song was recorded in 1964 and appeared on Little Richard's Greatest Hits. His last recording appears on the 1992 album Little Richard Meets Masayoshi Takanaka.