During the mid-to-late 1950s, Ricky Nelson was wholesome, Pat Boone was as fresh as milk, and Elvis was the king. And then there was Richard Wayne Penniman, better known by his professional name Little Richard. He was anything but safe and made many people extremely uncomfortable with his wild stage act and androgynous sexuality. He also produced some of the best and most influential music of the early rock \u2018n\u2019 roll era.<\/p>\n
His material has been released dozens of times down through the years and in many formats. Many of his compilation albums offer a course in the foundation and history of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, as he was one of the first artists to move the rhythm & blues sound over into a straight rock style. He may not have invented rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, but he was there at the beginning and can be considered one of its early architects.<\/p>\n
He released his first full-length album during 1957. The Concord Music Group has now rereleased Here\u2019s Little Richard<\/i> with bonus tracks. It\u2019s nice to have his first album available again as it presents a different picture from the multitude of reissues that have appeared down through the decades. He was just transitioning from an artist who was playing smoky clubs into a national superstar, and the album\u2019s 12 tracks catch him at his rawest and frenetic best.<\/p>\n
The tracks move from one high-octane performance to the next. \u201cTutti Frutti,\u201d \u201cReady Teddy,\u201d \u201cLong Tall Sally,\u201d \u201cRip It Up,\u201d and \u201cJenny Jenny\u201d among others remain exciting over 50 years after their first release and just blast out of the speakers.<\/p>\n
The sound has been remastered and is excellent. A booklet is included which contains a biography and notes about each track. There is even a small poster included.<\/p>\n
The bonus tracks include demo versions of \u201cBaby,\u201d \u201cAll Night Long,\u201d and an interview with Art Rupe, who founded Specialty Records, the label that originally released the album. Finally, there are two video screen tests of \u201cTutti Fruitti\u201d and \u201cLong Tall Sally.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s Little Richard<\/i> is a must for anyone even mildly interested in the history of rock music as the 12 original tracks reduce rock \u2018n\u2019 roll to its purest form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":30933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8262],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-42612","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-little-richard","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42612"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42612"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}