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- Date Released: January 1, 1958
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Oldies, R&B
- Label: Fantasy / Specialty
It just doesn't get any more rock & roll than this
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We Say...
"Tutti Frutti" was the first rock & roll song I ever heard, knee-high to the big console radio in my living room, and it induced the kind of hysterical laughter reserved for true manifestations of the Holy Spirit. But then Little Richard has always spoken in tongues as he moved between the worlds of the sacred and profane. His gospel shout gives a preacher's fervor to these slabs of R&B, and yet, in the very simplicity of his scream, he took the New Orleans sway that producer Bumps Blackwell built into the music and raised the stakes, ramping up the gutbucket with his keening wail; the drive of his records was relentless. This wasn't just the next step in the development of rock & roll; it was the very miracle behind it.
As it turns out, "Tutti Frutti" almost didn't happen — a demo tacked onto the end of his first Specialty session, it became his debut hit in 1955. The perennials that follow, from "Long Tall Sally" to "Good Golly Miss Molly," are the building blocks of rock, seminal recordings which can truly be called "essential." Without them, rock & roll would have had less of both sides of the equation. -
They Say...
Little Richard was not only one of the first great stars of rock n' roll, he was one of the young music's first great cultural affronts, and while he was selling records hand over first in 1955 and 56, he seemed strange to squares in a way Chuck Berry or Fats Domino couldn't quite match, with his beyond-crazed performing style and ambiguous fashion sense. For Richard's second LP, 1957's simply titled Little Richard, Specialty Records' A&R men got the clever idea that by covering a few old standards, the Georgia Peach might win over some parents who had been put off by his earlier work. The flaw in this thinking was that by the time Richard got through with "Baby Face" and "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon", they sounded like Little Richard tunes -- which is to say the vocals howled, the piano rang out like church bells on speed, and his band swung hard behind it all. Little Richard was every bit as rockin' as his first album, if not more so; "Keep A'Knockin'", "Lucille", "Good Golly Miss Molly" and "The Girl Can't Help It" were hits for the right reason, "All Around The World" is still a clarion call for the power of the music (and most adults were probably not comforted by the song's proclamation that young fans of the big beat "never have time for romance/ they only wanna dance"), "Send Me Some Lovin'" slows down the tempo while still laying out the good groove, "Ooh! My Soul" is deliciously lascivious, and there isn't a single throwaway among the twelve tunes on deck. Richard's band (sadly unidentified by name) are in glorious form as well, and Cosimo Matassa (who recorded the bulk of these songs at his tiny J&M Studios in New Orleans) makes these sessions sound as raucous as they deserved. Little Richard was too crazed to win over many suspicious parents in 1957, but thankfully it wails loud enough that no one was likely to hear them complain, and it still get the party started fifty years on.
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| 01. |  |
Tutti Frutti |
2:26 |
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| 02. | |
Long Tall Sally |
2:10 |
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| 03. | |
Rip It Up |
2:23 |
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| 04. | |
Jenny Jenny |
2:02 |
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| 05. | |
Good Golly, Miss Molly |
2:08 |
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| 06. | |
Ready Teddy |
2:08 |
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| 07. | |
Slippin' And Slidin' |
2:41 |
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| 08. | |
The Girl Can't Help It |
2:32 |
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| 09. | |
I Got It |
2:19 |
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| 10. | |
Heeby-Jeebies |
2:13 |
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| 11. | |
Lucille |
2:23 |
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| 12. | |
Keep-A-Knockin' |
2:18 |
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| 13. | |
Miss Ann |
2:18 |
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| 14. | |
Ooh! My Soul |
2:06 |
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| 15. | |
True Fine Mama |
2:43 |
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| 16. | |
Directly From My Heart |
2:20 |
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| 17. | |
Hey Hey Hey Hey |
2:05 |
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| 18. | |
Send Me Some Lovin' |
2:20 |
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| 19. | |
Baby Face |
2:15 |
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| 20. | |
By The Light Of The Silvery Moon |
2:05 |
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20 Total Tracks, 45:55 Total Length
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