Posted on 06/16/2011 2:28:30 PM PDT by sussex
I don’t care what anybody else says only someone like me, born in 1940 and hitting the most awkward and irritating period of youth between 1954 and 1958 at exactly the same time as the world of music was ripped asunder can truly describe himself as a child of rock and roll.
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Lyrics were changed to remove the homosexual references.
Surprisingly Little Richard was a homosexual and Liberace too!
Who Knew?
Well ok.
When his spokesman said Liberace was losing weight because he was on a watermelon diet I wondered what he was doing with the watermelons.
While I adore Mr. Penniman’s work, it is generally understood by rock and roll musicologists that he ripped off his entire stye from Eskew Reeder aka “Eskarita” from South Carolina.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRZy0uapPGI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZyUcZjc0s&feature=related
Being it the same age group, for my crowd, rock and roll stunk...we were into R & B. Had a black radio station in Detroit that only played R & B. Those that were into R & R took good R & B songs and had them covered by a white singer ie: like Pat Boone. Slowly the R & B groups became mainline. Loved Jackie Wilson, Billy Ward and the Domino’s. Other blues and Jazz singers..
Little Richard scared the hell out of white parents in his day...
Of course, all these blues, R&B, and other musicians listened to each other and borrowed everywhere they could.
It's Richard Wayne Penniman (aka Little Richard) about fifteen years before "Tutti Frutti, oh, Rooty".
As child, his skill on the piano was already evident.
If you're familiar with early period Beatles, you'll know that McCartney was heavily influenced by Little Richard. A-whop bop-a-lu bop a-whop bam boom
Here is some very rare footage of "Little Richard" as a child, when he was just starting out in the music biz' ....
From a movie he did with Van Johnson ..
Read down in the text and use the link (”covers”) for the Beatles redo of “Long Tall Sally”; for comparison.
Esquerita (at least spell his name right) didn’t start recording until 1958, long after Little Richard’s debut, and his influence on Richard is not altogether clear. Certainly, his singing doesn’t match Penniman’s frantic emotional voice.
That’s what I call annoying kind of rock and roll.
Little Richard was fantastic one of the most explosive performers ever. Jimi Hendrix played guitar for him while still a teenager.
Anyone who has not listened to Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis has not heard rock and roll.
Jackie Wilson was unbelievable. Sam Cooke too.
The Beatles were also influenced by Buddy Holly, who was in turn influenced by R&B, country, and Mexican music. Musicians love to copy from each other, even in classical music. I’ve enjoyed listening to Roger McGuinn of the Byrds telling how he was influenced by John Coltrane and J.S. Bach.
I LOVED Jackie Wilson's music. It was really sad how he died.
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September 1970 Wilson's oldest son, 16-year-old Jackie Jr., was shot and killed during a confrontation on the porch of a Detroit neighbors' home.
On the night of September 29, 1975 while performing at the Latin Casino near Cherry Hill, New Jersey Wilson was stricken with a massive heart attack. One of the first to reach Jackie was Cornell Gunter of the Coasters group who immediately noticed he wasn't breathing. Gunter applied resuscitation and got him breathing again. An ambulance quickly got him to the nearby hospital where he remained in a coma for over three months.
Jackie gradually improved to the stage of semi-coma state, but obviously he had suffered severe brain damage and, at 41, a tremendous career was ended. Although he never uttered another word, he remained clinging to life for a further eight and a quarter years. He remained hospitalized until his death on January 21, 1984, at the age of forty-nine.
Music flows through everywhere and can trigger unexpected responses whereever it is heard.
Plato considered it a great danger to the state because of the emotion responses it could generate and he never heard Little Richard.
“Anyone who has not listened to Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis has not heard rock and roll.”
So true. I lean toward Jerry Lee Lewis, but the others are great, too.
A tremendous tragedy and great loss. I too loved Jackie.
A true Flaming Star extinguished too quickly.
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