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I’ve loved Little Richard since I was a snot-nosed oik listening to my mum’s records. But as Raheem Sterling took Richard’s look so Richard took Esquerita’s look ... and sound. I see it not as ripping off more as passing down a shamanic thing. But I can’t help but wonder what Esquerita thought penniless washing car windscreens in NYC in the mid-eighties before eventually dying of aids.
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Little Richard now gone! on 11:46 - May 10 with 1416 views
Little Richard now gone! on 23:54 - May 9 by Loftgirl
One day, someone will re-mix that and ruin it.
Though not remixed, I think it was Carl Perkins who did a very lame version of this song back in the day probably to appeal to a more grown up white American middle class audience. Little Richard like Elvis and others was considered a degenerate and a curse to popular music at the time. How wrong they were. Carls style met somewhere in the middle between R n R and that of the evergreen crooners. Whatever, it was dull as dishwater.
Richard was a master of his craft and one of the greatest stars of 50's music, much of it now sadly overlooked or forgotten. RIP
There aint half been some clever bastards.
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Little Richard now gone! on 11:51 - May 10 with 1410 views
Little Richard now gone! on 11:31 - May 10 by DannyPaddox
I’ve loved Little Richard since I was a snot-nosed oik listening to my mum’s records. But as Raheem Sterling took Richard’s look so Richard took Esquerita’s look ... and sound. I see it not as ripping off more as passing down a shamanic thing. But I can’t help but wonder what Esquerita thought penniless washing car windscreens in NYC in the mid-eighties before eventually dying of aids.
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Mick wrote a song about that.
altho google lyrics says:
Daniel Donovan / Don Letts / Greg Roberts / Herman Ezekiel Williams / Michael Geoffrey Jones
Equality band
Can't you tube vid
It's on spotify tho
Great album that, can't remember when I last listened to it...
Just being reminded
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Little Richard now gone! on 12:24 - May 10 with 1391 views
Little Richard now gone! on 11:46 - May 10 by Monahoop
Though not remixed, I think it was Carl Perkins who did a very lame version of this song back in the day probably to appeal to a more grown up white American middle class audience. Little Richard like Elvis and others was considered a degenerate and a curse to popular music at the time. How wrong they were. Carls style met somewhere in the middle between R n R and that of the evergreen crooners. Whatever, it was dull as dishwater.
Richard was a master of his craft and one of the greatest stars of 50's music, much of it now sadly overlooked or forgotten. RIP
Pat Boone did an anaemiac mass-consumption version of Tutti-Frutti for 1950s apartheid America.
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