LITTLE RICHARD PENNIMAN

There's about a dozen early rockers that everybody should be familiar with. Some had outrageous personal lives, but none let their freak flag fly quite as high as Little Richard. In an era when rockers were predominantly butch, he was flamboyant. Not exactly swish, but not Link Wray either. Does it matter? Nope, just proves that he was the real wild deal. Before he quit secular music the first time in 1957, he'd frequented orgies, dated a stripper and had 13 singles that charted, all of them textbook rock n' roll records. And that voice! Who else shredded their vocal chords like that? Put him up against Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and any other of his contemporaries, and he still comes out as one of the wildest.
Rip. It. Up.

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Little Richard - Long Tall Sally mp3 at One Sweet Song
Little Richard - Rip It Up mp3 at Kid America Club
Little Richard - Slippin' and Slidin' mp3 at Udenap.org (?)
Little Richard - The Girl Can't Help It mp3 at BlogRage
Little Richard - Good Golly Miss Molly mp3 at CustomerPages.com (?)
Little Richard - Keep A Knockin' mp3 at DrummerWorld
Little Richard - I Got It mp3 at Teenage Kicks
Little Richard - Tutti Frutti mp3 at Popdose
Little Richard - Jenny, Jenny mp3 at Diddy Wah
Oddball:
Little Richard - Royal Crown Hairdressing radio spot mp3 at Young Manhattanite
Blair -Little Richard Tells it like it t-i-s (spoken word) mp3 at Earth Is City. I'm no expert, but this thing flows. There are definitely flourishes of Penniman panache. But it's a little over the top to be Little Richard's; even he drew the line at unnecessary.
Video:
Little Richard - Long Tall Sally at YouTube
Little Richard - Ready Teddy (from The Girl Can't Help It) at YouTube
Little Richard - Tutti Frutti video at YouTube
Little Richard - Lucille/Good Golly Miss Molly (live, 1966) video at YouTube
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Little Richard at Wikipedia