LITTLE RICHARD HERE’S LITTLE RICHARD
Label Specialty Records
Released : March 1957
Format:Flac
Here's Little Richard is the debut album from Little Richard, released on March 1957. He had scored six Top 40 hits the previous year, some of which were included on this recording. It was his highest charting album, at 13 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. In 2003, the album was ranked number 50 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album contained two of Richard's biggest hits, "Long Tall Sally", which reached #6 in the U.S. Pop charts, and "Jenny, Jenny", which reached #10 in the U.S. Pop charts.
Tracklist
1."Tutti Frutti" (Richard Penniman, Dorothy LaBostrie, Joe Lubin) – 2:25
2."True Fine Mama" (Penniman) – 2:43
3."Can't Believe You Wanna Leave" (Lloyd Price) – 2:28
4."Ready Teddy" (Robert Blackwell, John Marascalco) – 2:09
5."Baby" (Penniman) – 2:06
6."Slippin' and Slidin' (Peepin' and Hidin')" (Penniman, Eddie Bocage, Albert Collins, James Smith) – 2:42
7."Long Tall Sally" (Enotris Johnson, Blackwell, Penniman) – 2:10
8."Miss Ann" (Penniman, Johnson) – 2:17
9."Oh Why?" (Winfield Scott) – 2:09
10."Rip It Up" (Blackwell, Marascalco) – 2:23
11."Jenny, Jenny" (Johnson, Penniman) –2:04
12."She's Got It" (Marascalco, Penniman) –2:26
Personnel
Little Richard – vocals, piano (except on 5 and 9)
Lee Allen – tenor sax (except on 2 and 12)
Alvin "Red" Tyler – baritone sax (except on 2 and 12)
Frank Fields – bass (except on 2 and 12)
Earl Palmer – drums on (except on 2 and 12)
Edgar Blanchard – guitar on (except on 1, 2, 5, 9 and 12)
Additional personnel
Justin Adams – guitar on 1 and 5
Huey Smith – piano on 1 and 5
Renald Richard – trumpet on 2
Clarence Ford – tenor sax, baritone sax on 2
Joe Tillman – tenor sax on 2
William "Frosty" Pyles – guitar on 2
Lloyd Lambert – bass on 2
Oscar Moore – drums on 2
Roy Montrell - guitar on 9
Wilbert Smith – tenor sax on 12
Grady Gaines – tenor sax on 12
Clifford Burks – tenor sax on 12
Jewell Grant – baritone sax on 12
Nathaniel Douglas – guitar on 12
Olsie Richard Robinson – bass on 12
Charles Connor – drums on 12
