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Along with Elvis Presley, Little Richard helped define the wild side of early rock and roll with sexualized songs and outrageous behavior on stage. [1]
The screaming vocals, rattling keyboard style and outrageous showmanship of Little Richard set the standard for the flamboyant excess rock ‘n’ roll has come to symbolize. [2]
One of the original rock & roll greats, Little Richard merged the fire of gospel with New Orleans R&B, pounding the piano and wailing with gleeful abandon. [3]
View company contact information for Little Richard on IMDbPro. [4]
Welcome to LittleRichard.Com, a tribute to the “Emancipator of Rock and Roll!” [...] That means I am NOT Little Richard, and I’ve never communicated with him, I’m just a fellow fan. [5]
More than any other performer - save, perhaps, Elvis Presley, Little Richard blew the lid off the Fifties, laying the foundation for rock and roll with his explosive music and charismatic persona. [6]
Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and recording artist, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. [7]
From the time he began with Specialty on September 13, 1955 until he left in October, 1957 Richard would record fifty songs, including alternate takes. [2]
Little Richard Penniman grew up singing gospel and blues and began recording in the early 1950s. [1]
Heavily steeped in gospel music while growing up in Georgia, when Little Richard began recording in the early ’50s he played unexceptional jump blues/R&B that owed a lot to his early inspirations Billy Wright and Roy Brown. [3]
It has a biography, bibliography, and the most complete discography you’ll find (you wouldn’t believe how many albums and compilations he’s done so far!). [5]
Beginning her recording career by signing with Decca in 1938, Sister Rosetta began performing outside of the churches (shining the Light of the Lord in the darkness - i.e. “nightclubs”), which brought condemnation from some church folk. [8]
They also did a fun article, Little Richard’s the Life of the Party, about a great Detroit performance with Ike Turner, Bo Diddly and others at Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. [5]
Macon to perform the blues at the Tick Tock Club in the evening while washing dishes at the cafeteria of a Greyhound bus station during the day. [2]
Sources:
[1] Little Richard: Biography from Answers.com
[2] History of Rock: Little Richard
[3] Little Richard - Biography - Ask.com
[4] Little Richard (2000) (TV)
[5] Little Richard.com
[6] Little Richard on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s …
[7] Little Richard - Wikipedia
[8] Little Richard - Rock n Roll to the Rock of Ages (Little …