Little Richard - Here's Little Richard - Music & Performance - CD

The classic 1957 album from one of the original rock n roll greats, re-mastered, expanded with three bonus tracks, and enhanced with two bonus videos. Includes all the original hits including, "Tutti Frutti," "Ready Teddy," "Long Tall Sally" and "Rip It Up".

Little Richard had been making records for four years before he rolled into Cosimo Matassa's J&M Studio in New Orleans and cut the epochal "Tutti Frutti" in the fall of 1955, but everything else he'd done -- and much of what others had recorded -- faded into insignificance when Richard wailed "A wop bop a loo mop a lomp bomp bomp" and kicked off one of the first great wailers in rock history. In retrospect, Little Richard's style doesn't seem so strikingly innovative as captured in 1956's Here's Little Richard -- his boogie-woogie piano stylings weren't all that different from what Fats Domino had been laying down since 1949, and his band pumped out the New Orleans backbeat that would define the Crescent City's R&B for the next two decades, albeit with precision and plenty of groove. But what set Richard apart was his willingness to ramp up the tempos and turn the outrage meter up to ten; "Tutti Frutti," "Rip It Up," and "Jenny Jenny" still sound outrageous a half-century after they were waxed, and it's difficult but intriguing to imagine how people must have reacted to Little Richard at a time when African-American performers were expected to be polite, and the notion of a gay man venturing out of the closet simply didn't exist (Richard's songs were thoroughly heterosexual on the surface, but the nudge and wink of "Tutti Frutti" and "Baby" is faint but visible, and his bop threads, mile-high process, and eye makeup clearly categorized him as someone "different"). These 12 tunes may not represent the alpha and omega of Little Richard's best music, but every song is a classic and unlike many of his peers, time has refused to render this first album quaint -- Richard's grainy scream remains one of the great sounds in rock & roll history, and the thunder of his piano and the frantic wail of the band is still the glorious call of a Friday night with pay in the pocket and trouble in mind. Brilliant stuff. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Performer	Little Richard
Music genre	Rock N' Roll Oldies
Music subgenre	POP ROCK
Music release type	Release
Media format	CD
Original release date	2012
Edition	Standard
Language	English
Is collectible	Y
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Series title	Little Richard - Here's Little Richard [COMPACT DISCS] Rmst, Digipack Packaging
Track listing	Tutti Frutti, True Fine Mama, Can't Believe You Wanna Leave, Ready Teddy, Baby, Slippin' and Slidin', Long Tall Sally, Miss Ann, Oh Why?, Rip It Up, Jenny Jenny, She's Got It, Baby [Demo Version], All Night Long [Demo Version], Interview with Specialty Records Founder Art Rupe, Tutti Trutti [Screen Test] [Multimedia Track], Long Tall Sally [Screen Test] [Multimedia Track]
Record label	Fantasy
Songwriter	Little Richard
Track name	Tutti Frutti
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	Y