little richard - C or D?

Phew, still alive then.

Magnificent, thanks for posting.

Did he say he was Jewish? What a character. May have been more terrifying to white folks in 1956 than John Lydon was in 1976.

He is of the same religion as Bob Dylan, Madonna and Marvin Gaye.

And then there was one.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/little-richard-dead-48505/

RIP Little Richard

what a life

aw :(

RIP Richard.

I don't know what you, got but it's got me. RIP

always liked this one, Little Richard in Ray Charles mode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LRC6vxem60

he outlived so many rockers. "Long Tall Sally" towers over the 20th century. loved the story of his threesome of Buddy Holly. RIP

This was my intro to little richard, couldn’t have asked for anything better tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWCEG6lV0ek

I thought Little Richard was the coolest when I was 6 years old and still do. RIP

I found this a few years ago, but didn't post it because I didn't want to seem like I was making a joke at his expense.

But I've been wondering what this man has been up to for the past... 20 years? and this answered a few questions.

RIP RP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTXfx4h4iPs

NO WAY

Way

One of the all-time greats.

His gospel voice is super smooth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovz-98UAt8o

A friend met him in Morrison's Cafeteria in North Carolina, which always struck me at the exact spot I'd want to have run into the guy. The first generation of rockers personalities are so faceted, even as the music was blunt. Exemplars of "The South is complicated" shrug.

Like North Carolina just had to amend a law to allow an exception to the rule that you cannot wear a mask in public, which is still on the books to keep the Klan from being anonymous on the street.

In a super eerie concidence I literally just picked up & started reading The Life and Times of Little Richard authorized biography this morning over breakfast, without having read the news yet or anything. 10 pages in and it's already easily among the wildest and most shocking bios I've ever read, cant recommend it enough.

Hard to find the words to even begin to sum up his greatness & influence, one of the giants of the century.

Is that the one that was once called The Quasar of Rock and Roll?

Yeah thats the one

Yeah, some crazy stuff in there

A friend on Twitter a while ago said the opening sounded like a Flannery O'Connor story.

Lol, yeah, probably

must be something in the water in Macon: Little Richard, Otis, Allman Brothers, Capricorn, Mills & Berry, etc.

James Brown worked out of there too.

The thing that astounds me is that <ALL> of his essential Specialty stuff was basically cut in the span of about 2-2 1/2 years, and on top of that, the track that really got him going, "Tutti Frutti", was cut mainly as an afterthought at his first session for them, the only track on the date he played piano on.

https://us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/rea-archive/2006/spring/1959-bob-dylan-high-school-yearbook-2.jpg

"Ohh! My Soul (take 8)" is an all-time rager. RIP you brilliant wild man.

lmao every time I hear the producer pleading with him before take 9 "and please slow it down a little bit more"

When I first started collecting albums in the mid-late '70s, the Specialty stuff was hard to find in Canada. Mostly it was budget-album remakes. I can't remember where exactly--a Toronto store that specialized in imports, I think--but at some point I was able to get Little Richard, Little Richard: His Biggest Hits, and The Fabulous Little Richard. Got the first and third autographed when he was out promoting the Charles White book.

His Sesame Street appearance was so good

That episode of Sesame Street was lit. #LittleRichard #RIPLegend pic.twitter.com/vxuoxypcP2

— Constance Mary (@CondyLand) May 9, 2020

his voice is really irresistible. it jumps out of the record, out of time.

His Sesame Street appearance was so good

🐦[That episode of Sesame Street was lit. #LittleRichard🕸 #RIPLegend🕸 pic.twitter.com/vxuoxypcP2🕸
— Constance Mary (@CondyLand) May 9, 2020🕸]🐦

yes!!

Couldn't see the tub on my phone.

Big fan of "Southern Child"

Please everyone hit me up with the best Little Richard videos you have to hand

I always like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUvHBirr1PI

I'm sure I wasn't the only person who posted this on FB today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZBLt_rcehE

I am watching this and it lives up to the hype

Little Richard has died, aged 87. BBC Archive will never tire of his incredible 1972 interview on Late Night Line-Up. pic.twitter.com/PRbuDSZB1H

— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) May 9, 2020

Not big on posting RIP tweets, but I'll make an exception for this one.

I just heard the news about Little Richard and I’m so grieved. He was my shining star and guiding light back when I was only a little boy. His was the original spirit that moved me to do everything I would do.

— Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) May 9, 2020

RIP, you wonderful man.

Love this performance recorded for British TV in 1963. Also features The Shirelles (fabulous in their own right) - they join him on his gospel song "Joy Joy Joy (Down In My Heart)":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG_lsulgLGU

This earlier upload of the special appears to be a different edit.

i love this 72 interview

you can see the influence he had not just musically but in terms of how to be a Celebrity; be your *own* star, create your own reality: the attitude, the clothes, being in on your own joke & letting everyone else catch up - he was lightyears ahead of what the stars of the day were doing

ugh

link: https://youtu.be/R-Z2rQZeoWk

:-(

I love the '66-67 stuff collected on Get Down With It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzBUxt_aIDU

Anyone else just the right age to have first learned of him from Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme?

the god. got to see him live in 2011; he had bad sciatica and didn't jump around at all but he sounded fucking great!