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Little Richard - The Essential Audio CD

A fair review of the Little Richard "The Essential" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Little Richard reviews here, or go back to the Little Richard tabs.

Little Richard Band: Little Richard
Title: The Essential
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Release Date: 1989-06-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Tutti Frutti 2: Long Tall Sally 3: Rip It Up 4: Jenny, Jenny 5: Good Golly Miss Molly 6: Ready Teddy 7: Slippin' and Slidin' 8: Girl Can't Help It 9: I Got It 10: Heeby Jeebies 11: Lucille 12: Keep a Knockin' 13: Miss Ann 14: Ooh! My Soul 15: True Fine Mama 16: Directly from My Heart to You 17: Hey Hey Hey Hey 18: Send Me Some Lovin' 19: Baby Face 20: By the Light of the Silvery Moon

Timeless Classics still Rock!!

Quality sound from todays technology yet uninterupted from the original cuts. This is every bit of Little Richards best. Little Richards music is fun and will get you tappin' you're toe young or old. I recommend this to you oldies lovers.


Best of Little Richard
I recommend it!

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There were several CD's of him, but, this one was the best, even though, it was the oldest and cheapest.


Goes on too long but has some of his best
Little Richard is known for his high impact, energetic performances of "Tutti Fruiti," "Good Golly, Miss Molly," and "Long Tall Sally. The compilation CD, The Essential Little Richard, documents the career of one of the founders of rock 'n' roll. " Among others, the Beatles covered "Long Tall Sally" in 1964. This CD has many of the songs Little Richard was best known for. Unfortunately, the album doesn't stop there.

Controversial from the start, Little Richard had a style no one has managed to imitate, although many have tried. He can't be parodied, since he was something of a parody himself. Either banging away at a piano or just jumping into the air as he sang, Little Richard was impossible not to stare at. With lyrics echoing words meaninglessly ("Slippin' and a-slidin', peepin' and a-hidin'"), messages could be forgotten. I saw Little Richard live when I was twenty, and watched him in amazement for forty-five minutes. Leaping during every line he sang, he spent more time in the air than on the ground. If you could turn him into a power source, you could run the Hoover Dam.

Little Richard emerges best in "The Girl Can't Help It," where a backup male chorus supports his vocals. But listening to 20 tracks by him in a row is like visiting a circus sideshow: fascinating but quickly wearing out its welcome. The CD would have been more effective at twelve tracks.
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Great Music
The CD is great and brought back old memories from my junior high school years. Since I will be attending a concert by Little Richard in October, I wanted to refresh my memory. A great CD.


The Music Of My Feckless Youth...
His distinctive style can get a little tedious but tossing this disk into a multi-CD player with other 50's greats makes for a really great nostalgia-fest. All of Little Richard's best-known tunes and a few lesser-known ones.


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