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CD reissues have seen the album attract positive reviews. In 2007, Record Collector gave the album four stars, and cited it as "quite possibly the best long player he ever made." [6] In a review of the entire Okeh recordings, Rolling Stone stated that "Richard's hair-raising vocals on the Motown staple 'Money' effectively claim the song as his ...
Hendrix played on at least nine tracks on the second LR Vee Jay album of '50s remakes. Among the notable Richard-Hendrix songs were "I Don't Know What You've Got (But It's Got Me)", a soul hit in late 1965, and "Dancing All Around the World" (aka "Dance a Go Go"), and "You'd Better Stop", recorded in New York City May or June, '65.
Here's Little Richard was issued by Specialty on March 4, 1957, both as a 12-inch LP (SP-100) and as a series of three EPs (SEP-400, 401 and 402 respectively). [2] According to author George Plasketes, the album felt "fresh but familiar" to listeners because, as it contained previously released hits, it bore similarities to a greatest hits ...
The new documentary, “Little Richard: I Am Everything,” explores the late singer’s complicated life constantly swinging between the secular and the profane.
Flamboyant singer-instrumentalist Little Richard, whose high-voltage, keyboard-shattering R&B singles supplied lift-off for the ’50s rock ‘n’ roll revolution, has died. The musician, whose ...
And ex-bandmate John Lennon covered Richard’s “Rip It Up” and “Ready Teddy” on the 1975 “Rock 'N' Roll” album. While Little Richard sold more than 30 million records worldwide, his ...
Little Richard (titled Volume 2 in the UK) is the second album [2] by American musician Little Richard, released by July 1958, ten months after Richard announced a retirement from rock and roll to pursue a life in the ministry.
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 ...