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| − | Reverend '''Richard Wayne Penniman''' (born December 5, 1932), better known by the [[stage name]] '''Little Richard''', is an [[United States|American]] [[singer]], [[songwriter]] and [[pianist]]. | + | Reverend '''Richard Wayne Penniman''' (born December 5, 1932), better known by the [[stage name]] '''Little Richard''', is an [[United States|American]] [[singer]], [[songwriter]], and [[pianist]]. A key figure in the transition from [[rhythm & blues]] to [[rock and roll]] in the 1950s, Penniman's legacy rests on a string of groundbreaking hit singles from 1955 through 1957, such as "[[Tutti Frutti (song)|Tutti Frutti]]," "[[Lucille (Little Richard song)|Lucille]]," "Good Golly Miss Molly," and "[[Long Tall Sally]]," which helped lay the foundations of rock and roll and later influenced generations of [[R & B]], [[rock music|rock]], and [[soul music]] artists. |
| − | + | Largely ignored during the 60s and 70s, he was subsequently honored by being one of seven of the first inductees into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in 1986 and was one of only four of these honorees (along with [[Ray Charles]], [[James Brown]], and [[Fats Domino]]) to also receive the [[Rhythm & Blues Foundation]]'s Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award. | |
| − | Little Richard's early work was a mix of [[boogie-woogie]], [[rhythm and blues]], and [[gospel music]], but with a heavily accentuated [[back-beat]], | + | Little Richard's early work was a mix of [[boogie-woogie]], [[rhythm and blues]], and [[gospel music]], but with a heavily accentuated [[back-beat]], saxophone accompaniment, and raspy shouted vocals, moans, screams, and other emotive inflections that marked a new kind of music. In 1957, while at the height of stardom, he became a [[born-again]] [[Christianity|Christian]], enrolled in and attended Bible college, and withdrew from recording and performing secular music. Citing a calling to be an evangelist, he has since devoted large segments of his life to his ministry, but has also often performed in rock shows, films, commercials, and documentaries on the history of rock and roll. |
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
===Early life=== | ===Early life=== | ||
| − | Penniman was born in [[Macon, Georgia]], the son of Leva Mae ([[married and maiden names|née]] Stewart) and Charles "Bud" Penniman, | + | Penniman was born in [[Macon, Georgia]], the son of Leva Mae ([[married and maiden names|née]] Stewart) and Charles "Bud" Penniman, a [[Rum-runner|bootlegger]]. Despite his father's occupation, the family was a religious one. Growing up amid [[poverty]] and [[racism]], he reports that singing was an important part of his early life that brought him and his family closer to God. The family formed a [[gospel music|gospel]] group called the Penniman Singers that sange in local churches and entered contests with other singing families. Richard's siblings nicknamed him "War Hawk" because of his loud, screaming-style singing voice. |
| − | + | Richard regularly attended the New Hope Baptist Church in Macon, where his mother was a member. However, of all the churches he frequented, Richard's favorites were the [[Pentecostal]] churches because of the music and the excitement he and his friends would have doing the "holy dance" and [[glossolalia|speaking in tongues]] with members of the congregation. People sometimes testified to the young Richard's gift of healing when ministered to them while singing. | |
| − | + | Deeply influenced by the gospel artists of the 1930s and 40s, Richard cited [[Sister Rosetta Tharpe]] as his favorite singer when he was a child. In 1945, after hearing him sing before the concert, she invited him to sing a song with her onstage at the Macon City Auditorium. He was also strongly influenced by [[Marion Williams]], from whom he got his trademark "who-o-o-o!" inserted his vocals. His appearance (hair, clothing, shoes, makeup, etc.) and sound were also reportedly influence by the blues shouter [[Billy Wright (musician)|Billy Wright]]. | |
| − | He learned to mix ministerial qualities with theatrics by watching the traveling [[medicine show]]s that rolled through his native Macon. | + | Penniman's piano-playing was partly inherited from pianist Eskew Reeder Jr., better known as [[Esquerita]], who demonstrated to Richard how to emphasize high notes without compromising the driving [[Bass (musical term)|bass]] line that would also characterize Penniman's playing. Another influence was Brother Joe May. Penniman explained, "I used to get in a room and try to make my piano sound just like him. He had so much energy." |
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| + | Richard also learned to mix ministerial qualities with theatrics by watching the traveling [[medicine show]]s that rolled through his native Macon. In these shows, colorful lead performers would often wear lavish capes, robes, or turbans. | ||
===1950s=== | ===1950s=== | ||
| − | In 1951, Penniman won a talent show in Atlanta, which resulted in a recording contract with [[RCA Records|RCA]]. In 1952, | + | In 1951, Penniman won a talent show in Atlanta, which resulted in a recording contract with [[RCA Records|RCA]] which produced no notable successes. In 1952, Richard's father was murdered, after which he returned to Macon and performed [[blues]] and [[boogie-woogie]] music at the local Tick Tock Club in the evenings. He went on to record for [[Peacock Records]] in [[Houston]] from 1951 to 1955. In early 1955, he recorded his last two singles for Peacock backed by the [[Johnny Otis]] Trio. These records sold poorly, however, and Penniman had little success until he sent a demo tape to [[Specialty Records]] on February 17, 1955. Specialty's owner, Art Rupe, purchased Richard's contract from Peacock and connected him [[A&R]] man [[Robert Blackwell|Robert "Bumps" Blackwell]]. Blackwell had nurtured and groomed [[Ray Charles]] and [[Quincy Jones]] at the start of their careers in the music business. |
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| + | Blackwell intended to have Richard compete against Ray Charles and [[B.B. King]] by having him record [[blues]] tracks. During a break in recording session in [[New Orleans]] in the late summer of 1955, however, Penniman began singing an impromptu recital of "[[Tutti Frutti (song)|Tutti Frutti]]," in his shouted vocal style, while pounding out a boogie-woogie based [[rhythm]] on the piano. Blackwell, who knew a hit when he heard one, had Richard record the song, after having him tone down the song's suggestive lyrics. The song was released on Specialty in late 1955, and became the first of Little Richard's many hits. | ||
| − | + | A rapid succession of hit songs soon followed, characterized by a driving piano, boogie-woogie bass, funky [[saxophone]] arrangements, and Richard's high pitched screams before sax solos. The songs included "[[Long Tall Sally]]," "[[Lucille (Little Richard song)|Lucille]]," "[[Rip It Up (song)|Rip It Up]]," "[[The Girl Can't Help It (song)|The Girl Can't Help It]]," "[[Slippin' and Slidin']]," "[[Jenny, Jenny]]," "[[Good Golly, Miss Molly]]," and "[[Keep A-Knockin']]." | |
| − | + | His performing style can be seen in such period films as ''[[Don't Knock the Rock]]'' (1956) and ''[[The Girl Can't Help It]]'' (also 1956), for which he sang the title song. | |
| − | In the commercial fashion of the day, several of his early hits were re-recorded in other styles. Little Richard's first national success, "Tutti Frutti," was covered by [[Pat Boone]], whose version outdid the source record, number 12 to number 17. Boone also released a version of "Long Tall Sally | + | In the commercial fashion of the day, several of his early hits were re-recorded in other styles. Little Richard's first national success, "Tutti Frutti," was covered by [[Pat Boone]], whose version initially outdid the source record, number 12 to number 17. Boone also released a version of "Long Tall Sally." But this time, the Little Richard original outperformed it on the [[Billboard]] charts, number six to number eight. [[Bill Haley]] covered Little Richard's third major hit, "Rip It Up," but again, Richard's version prevailed. With the record-buying public's preference established, Little Richard's subsequent releases did not face the same chart competition. |
Then, suddenly, when at the top of the music world, Little Richard, fearing his own damnation, abandoned rock-and-roll music to become a [[born again Christian]], in which he was called to be an [[evangelist]]. Although his secular music career in the 1950s was rather brief, his impact on twentieth and twenty-first-century music was incalculable and arguably unparalleled. | Then, suddenly, when at the top of the music world, Little Richard, fearing his own damnation, abandoned rock-and-roll music to become a [[born again Christian]], in which he was called to be an [[evangelist]]. Although his secular music career in the 1950s was rather brief, his impact on twentieth and twenty-first-century music was incalculable and arguably unparalleled. | ||
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 Little Richard performing in Austin, Texas in March, 2007
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Richard Wayne Penniman |
| Also known as | The True queen Of Rock 'n' Roll The Originator, The Emancipator, The Architect Of Rock 'n' Roll; The queen of Rockin' an Rollin' Rhythm & Blues Soulin', The Georgia Peach |
| Born | December 5 1932 (age 91) U.S. |
| Origin | Macon, Georgia, U.S. |
| Genre(s) | Rhythm & Blues Rock & Roll Soul Gospel |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals Piano Keyboard |
| Years active | 1951 - present |
Reverend Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), better known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. A key figure in the transition from rhythm & blues to rock and roll in the 1950s, Penniman's legacy rests on a string of groundbreaking hit singles from 1955 through 1957, such as "Tutti Frutti," "Lucille," "Good Golly Miss Molly," and "Long Tall Sally," which helped lay the foundations of rock and roll and later influenced generations of R & B, rock, and soul music artists.
Largely ignored during the 60s and 70s, he was subsequently honored by being one of seven of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and was one of only four of these honorees (along with Ray Charles, James Brown, and Fats Domino) to also receive the Rhythm & Blues Foundation's Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award.
Little Richard's early work was a mix of boogie-woogie, rhythm and blues, and gospel music, but with a heavily accentuated back-beat, saxophone accompaniment, and raspy shouted vocals, moans, screams, and other emotive inflections that marked a new kind of music. In 1957, while at the height of stardom, he became a born-again Christian, enrolled in and attended Bible college, and withdrew from recording and performing secular music. Citing a calling to be an evangelist, he has since devoted large segments of his life to his ministry, but has also often performed in rock shows, films, commercials, and documentaries on the history of rock and roll.
Biography
Early life
Penniman was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of Leva Mae (née Stewart) and Charles "Bud" Penniman, a bootlegger. Despite his father's occupation, the family was a religious one. Growing up amid poverty and racism, he reports that singing was an important part of his early life that brought him and his family closer to God. The family formed a gospel group called the Penniman Singers that sange in local churches and entered contests with other singing families. Richard's siblings nicknamed him "War Hawk" because of his loud, screaming-style singing voice.
Richard regularly attended the New Hope Baptist Church in Macon, where his mother was a member. However, of all the churches he frequented, Richard's favorites were the Pentecostal churches because of the music and the excitement he and his friends would have doing the "holy dance" and speaking in tongues with members of the congregation. People sometimes testified to the young Richard's gift of healing when ministered to them while singing.
Deeply influenced by the gospel artists of the 1930s and 40s, Richard cited Sister Rosetta Tharpe as his favorite singer when he was a child. In 1945, after hearing him sing before the concert, she invited him to sing a song with her onstage at the Macon City Auditorium. He was also strongly influenced by Marion Williams, from whom he got his trademark "who-o-o-o!" inserted his vocals. His appearance (hair, clothing, shoes, makeup, etc.) and sound were also reportedly influence by the blues shouter Billy Wright.
Penniman's piano-playing was partly inherited from pianist Eskew Reeder Jr., better known as Esquerita, who demonstrated to Richard how to emphasize high notes without compromising the driving bass line that would also characterize Penniman's playing. Another influence was Brother Joe May. Penniman explained, "I used to get in a room and try to make my piano sound just like him. He had so much energy."
Richard also learned to mix ministerial qualities with theatrics by watching the traveling medicine shows that rolled through his native Macon. In these shows, colorful lead performers would often wear lavish capes, robes, or turbans.
1950s
In 1951, Penniman won a talent show in Atlanta, which resulted in a recording contract with RCA which produced no notable successes. In 1952, Richard's father was murdered, after which he returned to Macon and performed blues and boogie-woogie music at the local Tick Tock Club in the evenings. He went on to record for Peacock Records in Houston from 1951 to 1955. In early 1955, he recorded his last two singles for Peacock backed by the Johnny Otis Trio. These records sold poorly, however, and Penniman had little success until he sent a demo tape to Specialty Records on February 17, 1955. Specialty's owner, Art Rupe, purchased Richard's contract from Peacock and connected him A&R man Robert "Bumps" Blackwell. Blackwell had nurtured and groomed Ray Charles and Quincy Jones at the start of their careers in the music business.
Blackwell intended to have Richard compete against Ray Charles and B.B. King by having him record blues tracks. During a break in recording session in New Orleans in the late summer of 1955, however, Penniman began singing an impromptu recital of "Tutti Frutti," in his shouted vocal style, while pounding out a boogie-woogie based rhythm on the piano. Blackwell, who knew a hit when he heard one, had Richard record the song, after having him tone down the song's suggestive lyrics. The song was released on Specialty in late 1955, and became the first of Little Richard's many hits.
A rapid succession of hit songs soon followed, characterized by a driving piano, boogie-woogie bass, funky saxophone arrangements, and Richard's high pitched screams before sax solos. The songs included "Long Tall Sally," "Lucille," "Rip It Up," "The Girl Can't Help It," "Slippin' and Slidin'," "Jenny, Jenny," "Good Golly, Miss Molly," and "Keep A-Knockin'."
His performing style can be seen in such period films as Don't Knock the Rock (1956) and The Girl Can't Help It (also 1956), for which he sang the title song.
In the commercial fashion of the day, several of his early hits were re-recorded in other styles. Little Richard's first national success, "Tutti Frutti," was covered by Pat Boone, whose version initially outdid the source record, number 12 to number 17. Boone also released a version of "Long Tall Sally." But this time, the Little Richard original outperformed it on the Billboard charts, number six to number eight. Bill Haley covered Little Richard's third major hit, "Rip It Up," but again, Richard's version prevailed. With the record-buying public's preference established, Little Richard's subsequent releases did not face the same chart competition.
Then, suddenly, when at the top of the music world, Little Richard, fearing his own damnation, abandoned rock-and-roll music to become a born again Christian, in which he was called to be an evangelist. Although his secular music career in the 1950s was rather brief, his impact on twentieth and twenty-first-century music was incalculable and arguably unparalleled.
While Little Richard's retreat to the faith in which he was groomed as a child resulted in an abrupt halt to the recording style that made him famous and changed the world of music, he continued in and out of rock and roll and the ministry into the twenty-first century. He recorded only Gospel music after his spiritual conversion from 1957 to the early 1960s, claiming at the time that rock music was of the devil and that it was not possible to be a rocker and please God at the same time. He was married in 1959.
1960s
In 1963, with the Beatles as his opening act, on a tour of parts of Europe, Little Richard backslid from the ministry and his calling. He returned to recording and performing secular material. He was divorced in 1964. That year, he again toured Europe with a then-unknown band by the name of The Rolling Stones. In 1964, he brought a fledgling Jimi Hendrix into his band, who was then known as Maurice James. Soon to become world famous as Jimi Hendrix, he toured with Little Richard and played on at least a dozen Little Richard recordings (tracks) between the spring of 1964 and 1965. In 1966, Hendrix was quoted as saying, "I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice.".[1] Little Richard recorded funky soul music in the mid-1960s with Hendrix jumping in some sessions, along with Johnny Guitar Watson on guitar and his old friend from the mid-1950s, Larry Williams as producer at the Okeh Club in Hollywood and London.
1970s
Little Richard had minor hits in the 1960s and 1970s, although not with the greater success of his 1950s recordings.
In 1977, following the death of a nephew that he loved as a son, along with a violent clash with his long-time friend Larry Williams over a drug debt, Little Richard repented for his wayward living and returned to evangelism. He then recorded more Gospel music and remained fully in the ministry until the mid-1980s. He also represented Memorial Bibles International and sold their Black Heritage Bible, which highlighted the many people in the Bible who were Black. In many sermons during this period, he once again proclaimed that it was not possible to perform rock and serve God at the same time.
1980s
In the mid-1980s, the world's attention was refocused on Little Richard, following the release of Charles White's critically acclaimed, authorized biography The Life and Times of Little Richard, in which he candidly explains his struggles with and repentance from substance abuse and homosexuality. At the same time, the new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honored Little Richard as one of the first inductees. This resulted in a show business comeback for Little Richard.
In 1986, Little Richard finally reconciled his role as a minister and as a rock-and-roll artist. He recorded an album of inspirational songs for Warner Brother Records that he called "message music" and "messages in rhythm." He had his old friend Billy Preston help him write a song with spiritual lyrics that sounded like rock and roll for the soundtrack of the motion picture Down and Out in Beverly Hills in which he also co-starred. The result was "Great Gosh A'Mighty," which became a hit; he also received critical acclaim for his acting performance.
He made a commitment to his mother before she died that he would stay a Christian. He said that he would "stay with the Lord and just travel around." He began performing his old classic rock- and-roll hits in the late 1980s, but continued to evangelize by performing some Gospel material in his original rocking style, testifying to people on and off-stage, distributing a born-again Christian booklet, and reminding people of God's love for them on his photographs.
1990s - 2000s
Through the remainder of the 1980s, 1990s, and into the twenty-first century, Little Richard has remained a popular guest on television, in music videos, commercials, movies, and as a recording artist. He has contributed new recordings to movie soundtracks (ex. Twins, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Why Do Fools Fall in Love) and wrote and performed a song for the 2001 film The Trumpet of the Swan. He also sang background vocals on the U2 / BB King hit song "When Love Comes to Town," and in the extended "Live From The Kingdom Mix" of the track he preaches as well, sometimes amid funky saxophone playing. Penniman appeared on Living Colour's "Elvis Is Dead," and also recorded new tracks for tribute albums, such as Folkways: A Vision Shared ("The Rock Island Line," backed by Fishbone) (1989) and Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to Johnny Cash ("Get Rhythm") (2002).
He also recorded duets in the 1990s with Jon Bon Jovi, Hank Williams Jr., Living Colour, Elton John, Tanya Tucker, Solomon Burke, and in 2006 with Jerry Lee Lewis, in which they covered the Little Richard-influenced, early 1960s, hit Beatles track "I Saw Her Standing There." He also recently headlined the University of Texas event "40 Acres Fest".
In the 1990s, World Championship Wrestling (WCW) catapulted Macon, Georgia wrestler Marc Mero, under the ring name Johnny B. Badd, to stardom with the gimmick of a Little Richard look-alike, due to Mero's resemblance to the singer.
In 1994, he was featured on an episode of Full House titled: "Too Little Richard Too Late" playing Michelle's (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson) friend Denise's uncle. He helped Joey Gladstone (Dave Coulier) campaign for PTA president for Michelle's class against his arch enemy Mrs. Carruthers. With the help of Little Richard Joey will make his way to the top.
He played himself in the 1999 film, Mystery, Alaska, singing the "Star-Spangled Banner" and "O Canada" (slowly) before a pond hockey game between the local team and the New York Rangers.
In 2000, Robert Townsend directed a biopic about Little Ricard's life from childhood to his early 1930s (circa 1962). Leon Robinson received an Emmy Award nomination for his outstanding performance in the starring role.
In 2006, Penniman was a judge on Celebrity Duets on FOX. In 2006/2007, he was featured in a Geico advertisement, wherein he uses his signature "whoop" to denote the joy he would receive while consuming "mashed potatoes, gravy and cranberry sauce" at a Thanksgiving dinner. In 2007, his song "All Around The World" was featured on a Cravendale Advertisement for an animation by PicPic which features a cow, a pirate, and a cyclist. In 2007, he also performed at the Capitol Fourth - a July 4 celebration (televised live on PBS) in front of the White House in Washington D.C. In 2001, he performed at the July 4 music event in Dublin, Ohio.
On July 25, 2007, he made an appearance on the ABC show The Next Best Thing.
On November 22, 2007, he headlined the halftime show for the Thanksgiving football game of Arizona State University vs. the University of Southern California at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. It was broadcast on ESPN.
On February 10, 2008, he made an appearance at the 50th Grammy Awards, performing "Good Golly, Miss Molly" with Jerry Lee Lewis and John Fogerty.
In June 2008, Little Richard made a cameo appearance on the CBS daytime drama, The Young and the Restless as an ordained piano-playing minister marrying a doubting Gloria and Jeff Bardwell for the second time.
Legacy
Little Richard has earned wide praise from many other performers. James Brown called Little Richard his idol and credited him with "first putting the funk in the rock and roll beat." Smokey Robinson said Penniman's music was "the start of that driving, funky, never let up rock and roll," while Dick Clark described his music as "the model for almost every rock and roll performer of the 1950s and years thereafter." Ray Charles asserted that Little Richard was "the man that started a kind of music that set the pace for a lot of what's happening today." In his high-school yearbook, Bob Dylan declared that his ambition was "to follow Little Richard." In 1969, Elvis Presley told Little Richard, "Your music has inspired me - you are the greatest." Otis Redding, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Fogerty, Dick Dale, Bob Seger, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, David Bowie, and numerous other rock-and- roll icons have also cited Little Richard as being their first major influence. He was chosen as the eighth greatest artist of all time by Rolling Stone, although at least six of the seven artists that preceded him on the list were heavily influenced by his music.
Discography
Albums
- 1957: Here's Little Richard (Specialty)
- 1958: Volume 2 (Specialty)
- 1959: The Fabulous Little Richard (Specialty)
- 1960: Clap Your Hands
- 1960: Pray Along with Little Richard, Vol. 1
- 1960: Pray Along with Little Richard, Vol. 2
- 1962: King of the Gospel Singers
- 1963: Sings Spirituals
- 1964: Sings the Gospel
- 1964: Little Richard Is Back (And There's A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On!) (Vee-Jay)
- 1965: Little Richard's Greatest Hits (Vee-Jay)
- 1966: The Incredible Little Richard Sings His Greatest Hits - Live! (Modern)
- 1966: The Wild and Frantic Little Richard (Modern)
- 1967: The Explosive Little Richard (Okeh)
- 1967: Little Richard's Greatest Hits: Recorded Live! (Okeh)
- 1967: Rock N Roll Forever
- 1968: Little Richard's Grooviest 17 Original Hits (Specialty)
- 1968: Forever Yours (Roulette)
- 1969: Good Golly Miss Molly
- 1969: Little Richard
- 1970: Rock Hard Rock Heavy
- 1970: Little Richard
- 1970: Well Alright!
- 1970: The Rill Thing (Reprise)
- 1971: Mr. Big
- 1971: The King of Rock and Roll (Reprise)
- 1972: The Second Coming (Reprise)
- 1972: ''Southern Child (Reprise, unreleased)
- 1972: Friends from the Beginning - Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix
- 1972: The Original
- 1972: You Cant Keep a Good Man Down
- 1973: Right Now!
- 1973: Rip It Up
- 1974: Talkin' 'Bout Soul
- 1974: Recorded Live
- 1974: Super Hits (Trip)
- 1975: Keep a Knockin'
- 1976: Sings
- 1976: Little Richard Live
- 1977: Now
- 1977: 22 Original Hits (Warwick)
- 1979: God's Beautiful City
- 1983: 20 Greatest Hits (Lotus)
- 1986: Lifetime Friend
- 1988: Lucille
- 1992: Shake It All About
- 1996: Shag on Down by the Union Hall Featuring Shea Sandlin & Richard "The Sex" Hounsome
- 2006: Here Comes Little Richard/Little Richard
Hit singles
| Release date | Title | Chart Positions | |||||||||
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| US Charts | US R&B chart | UK Singles Chart | |||||||||
| 11/55 | "Tutti Frutti" | #17 | #2 | #29 | |||||||
| 4/56 | "Long Tall Sally" | #6 | #1 | #3 | |||||||
| 4/56 | "Slippin' and Slidin'" | #33 | #2 | - | |||||||
| 6/56 | "Rip It Up" | #17 | #1 | #30 | |||||||
| 6/56 | "Ready Teddy" | #44 | #8 | - | |||||||
| 10/56 | "Heebie-Jeebies" | - | #7 | - | |||||||
| 10/56 | "She's Got It" | - | #9 | #15 | |||||||
| 12/56 | "The Girl Can't Help It" | #49 | #7 | #9 | |||||||
| 12/56 | "All Around the World" | - | #13 | - | |||||||
| 3/57 | "Lucille" | #21 | #1 | #10 | |||||||
| 3/57 | "Send Me Some Lovin'" | #54 | #3 | - | |||||||
| 6/57 | "Jenny Jenny" | #10 | #2 | #11 | |||||||
| 6/57 | "Miss Ann" | #56 | #6 | - | |||||||
| 9/57 | "Keep A-Knockin'" | #8 | #2 | #21 | |||||||
| 2/58 | "Good Golly, Miss Molly" | #10 | #4 | #8 | |||||||
| 6/58 | "Ooh! My Soul" | #31 | #15 | #22 | |||||||
| 6/58 | "True, Fine Mama" | #68 | - | - | |||||||
| 9/57 | "Baby Face'" | #41 | #12 | #2 | |||||||
| 2/58 | "Kansas City" | #95 | - | #26 | |||||||
| 3/59 | "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" | - | - | #17 | |||||||
| 11/61 | "He's Not Just A Soldier" | #113 | - | - | |||||||
| 11/62 | "He Got What He Wanted" | - | - | #38 | |||||||
| 3/63 | "Crying In The Chapel" | #119 | - | - | |||||||
| 7/64 | "Bama Lama Bama Loo" | #82 | #82 | #20 | |||||||
| 9/64 | "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" (A-side) | #126 | - | - | |||||||
| 9/64 | "Goodnight Irene" (B-side) | #128 | - | - | |||||||
| 11/65 | "I Don't Know What You've Got But It's Got Me" | #92 | #12 | - | |||||||
| 6/66 | "Poor Dog (Who Can't Wag His Own Tail)" | #121 | #41 | - | |||||||
| 5/70 | "Freedom Blues" | #47 | #28 | - | |||||||
| 9/70 | "Greenwood Mississippi" | #85 | - | - | |||||||
| 8/73 | "In the Middle of the Night" | - | #71 | - | |||||||
| 1/76 | "Call My Name" | #106 | - | - | |||||||
| 3/86 | "Great Gosh A'Mighty!" | #42 | - | #62 | |||||||
| 10/86 | "Operator" | - | - | #67 | |||||||
Notes
- ↑ Charles A. White, The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorized Biography, Omnibus Press, 2003, pages 125-128, 131-132, 163, 228
ReferencesISBN links support NWE through referral fees
- Garodkin, John. Little Richard Special. Denmark: Mjoelner Edition, 1984. ISBN 978-8787721141
- Seay, Davin, and Neely, Mary. Stairway to Heaven: The Spiritual Roots of Rock 'n' Roll, From the King and Little Richard to Prince and Amy Grant. New York: Ballantine Books, 1986. ISBN 978-0345330222
- White, Charles. The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Quasar of Rock. New York: Harmony Books, 1984. ISBN 978-0517554982
External links
- Little Richard biography at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Little Richard in Rolling Stones Top 10 Artists of all Time
- Album reviews
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