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The Very Best of Little Richard [Specialty]Little Richard
Release Date: 07/29/2008
Original Release:
2008
# of Discs:
1
J&R Item # 1032017_CD
UPC # 888072307483
Label: Fantasy (distributor)
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Performer: Little Richard
Distributor: Universal Distribution Notes: Welcome to the sacred scrolls of rock & roll. Little Richard's turbo-charged R&B, as heard on the classic 1950s Specialty Records sessions featured on this collection, literally changed the world. The frenetic, pumping piano riffs and reckless, wild, soul-on-fire vocal whooping that electrify "Tutti Frutti," "Good Golly Miss Molly," "Long Tall Sally," and the rest, served as the hottest-sounding alarm clock ever heard, alerting a complacent post-war America that rock & roll was here to stay.
Dirty Linen (p.94) - "As one of the bona fide founders of rock 'n' roll, Richard Wayne Penniman is an iconic figure in American music history, and this collection is a satisfying document of that achievement."
Blender (Magazine) (p.85) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he details remain his own. Marvel as Richard rushes to get ahead of himself on 'Ready Teddy' and 'Jenny Jenny'....Ponder his irrepressible desire to pound the piano faster than Jerry Lee Lewis pursued by a bear."
Little Richard was the bridge between R&B and what--with his help--would come to be known as rock & roll. With the energetic one-two punch of "Tutti Frutti" and "Long Tall Sally" in 1955, Richard became a chart-topping hit-maker. His pounding piano, screaming vocals, and androgynous image helped create the template for rock's next several decades. Everyone from Prince to Presley has owed some of their success to this flamboyant and formidably talented pop icon.
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