Very Best Of Little Richard by Little Richard. The Original Rock'n Roller unleashes an essential collection of 25 digitally remastered greatest hits including "Tutti Frutti", 'Long Tall Sally", "Good Golly, Miss Molly" and more! These are the original hits as recorded for the legendary Specialty Records label from the fabulous `50s!

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 11-FEB-2002

It's impossible to over-emphasize the impact Little Richard and the music on his first two albums for Specialty Records from March 1957 and July 1958 had on the future sound of R&B, rock and soul. Here's Little Richard and Little Richard Volume 2 have just about every classic Little Richard side on them. This is the music that influenced and paved the way for the hundreds of beat groups of the 60's, and coupled with the larger-than-life anarchic, excessive and erratic personality of Little Richard himself, is the bedrock spirit of everything that followed in rock 'n' roll, its sound, its image and its energy. Just count the tracks from these albums that got cover versions: The Beatles, Elvis, Otis, Stones, Springsteen and innumerable others recorded and performed these songs for years and years to come. Otis Redding and James Brown, arguably the two biggest male soul stars the world ever saw, both wore their Richard influence as a medal of honor and Michael Jackson and Prince have long been acknowledged as the carriers of Richard's flaming, otherworldly and showmanistic torch.

This is Rock 'n' Roll in its purest form. The raw musical power contained here has, quite simply never been surpassed, they still compel you to shout and dance and put into their original context of the 1950s they are nothing less than astonishing, because as much as Elvis shook up the world, ultimately he was able to be white, safe and accessible. Not so with Little Richard who remained and remains a free spirit, an enigma and a unique being.

1. Lucille
2. Tutti Frutti
3. Long Tall Sally
4. Whole Lot Of Shakin Going On
5. Keep On Knocking
6. Goin Home Tomorrow
7. Hound Dog
8. Rip It Up
9. She s Got It
10. Good Golly Miss Molly
11. Ready Teddy
12. Short Fat Fanny
13. Ooh My Soul
14. Slippin & Slidin
15. The Girl Can t Help It
16. Send Me Some Lovin
17. Baby Face
18. Money Honey
19. Groovy Little Suzie
20. Jenny Jenny
21. Interview

EU collection from the Rock 'n' Roll icon. Little Richard is one of the great innovators, a true auteur whose enduring series of smash hits on the Specialty label influenced the Western world's most popular artists including Elvis, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Otis Redding, Prince and the Beatles. 'Tutti Frutti', 'Long Tall Sally', 'Lucille', 'Jenny Jenny', 'Good Golly Miss Molly', 'Baby Face': these are the records that made the difference between R&B and primal Rock 'n' Roll and they're all here. There's also a clutch of non-Specialty tracks of genuine worth including the jump blues, 'Get Rich Quick' from 1951, the semi-secret 'I'm In Love Again', issued under the name of the World Famous Upsetters in 1962, and 'Get Down With It', a rip-roaring rocker recorded in England in 1966. These add further dimension to a collection of paint-stripping intensity that no one has ever topped. Bear Family. 2011.

2008 reissue of the debut full-length album from the Rock 'N' Roll legend, originally released in 1957. Little Richard scored six Top 40 US hits in 1956, a time when Rock 'N' Roll was seen almost entirely as a singles propelled musical movement. This success prompted Specialty Records, who had Little Richard under exclusive license, to gather together the best of the singles and build an album around them. The result was Here's Little Richard, released in July '57. Even now, more than fifty years later and after a career spanning five decades, Here's Little Richard remains his most important and vital album. Indeed, it is still the best selling album of his career, reaching number thirteen on the Billboard charts when originally released. There again, any album that contains such groundbreaking tracks as 'Tutti Frutti', 'Long Tall Sally' and 'Rip It Up' would expect to perform well. Hallmark.