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Here's Little Richard - Little Richard (1957)

"I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues," Little Richard told Rolling Stone in 1970. "Bing Crosby, 'Pennies From Heaven,' Ella Fitzgerald was all I heard. And I knew there was something that could be louder than that, but I didn't know where to find it. And I found it was me." Richard's raucous debut collected singles such as "Good Golly, Miss Molly," in which his boogie-woogie piano and falsetto scream ignited the unfettered possibilities of rock & roll. "Tutti Frutti" still has the most inspired rock lyric on record: "A wop bop alu bop, a wop bam boom!"

Total album sales: Under 500,000

Peak chart position: 13

http://www.rollingstone.com/features/cover...en.asp?pid=2150

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DudeAsInCool....You know your music. Little Richard is at the core of the music of the last 50 years. I bought all those records in the late 1950s and played them on my little turntable. I was 12. I remember the Specialty Record Label: yellow, black and white. My favorite Richard songs are Good Golly Miss Molly, Lucille & She's Got It. Richard inspired Paul McCartney as Chuck Berry inspired John Lennon.

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Little Richard was as instrumental as Elvis, Chuck Berry or Jerry Lee Lewis. He certainly knows how to play the piano... :scratchin:

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DudeAsInCool....You know your music.

i won't say it :lol: (but i love little richard as well).

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Posted on Apr 28 2005, 10:09 AM

QUOTE (Jim Colyer @ Apr 28 2005, 05:30 PM)

DudeAsInCool....You know your music.

i won't say it :lol:

Someone's asking for trouble :lol:

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nyah nyah, y'can't catch meeeeee :P

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