HERE'S LITTLE RICHARD MONO sp 2100 1957 DG vinyl album
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Click on photos to enlarge LITTLE RICHARD
Here's Little Richard
SP 2100
Mono
Deep Groove
(1957)
Specialty Records
(?PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)
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Record Grade: Plays like VG++, but looks like VG. No pops or skips. There are some light crackles, but no pops or skips. (Play graded)
Cover Grade: VG. 6" Split on top edge, 1/2" split on bottom and 1/4" of peeling on edge. (click on pics to enlarge)
(a) The record has a "deep groove" (an indent in the label about 1/2-inch from the edge of the label, which on SOME labels is associated with very early or first pressings).
(b) The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!
(c) Mono pressing of this title is much rarer, and by far more preferable to its FAKE ("electronically rechannelled") stereo counterpart.
(d) Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!
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In States
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Worldwide 38.00 usd.
Canada 25.00 usd.
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Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame web site entry on Penniman states that:
He claims to be "the architect of rock and roll", and history would seem to bear out Little Richard’s boast. 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. On record, he made spine-tingling rock and roll. His frantically charged piano playing and raspy, shouted vocals on such classics as "Tutti Frutti", "Long Tall Sally" and "Good Golly, Miss Molly" defined the dynamic sound of rock and roll.[2]
Penniman began performing on stage and on the road in 1945, when he was in his early teens.[1] He began his recording career on October 16, 1951[3] by imitating the gospel-influenced style of late-1940s jump blues artist Billy Wright,[4] who was a friend of his who set him up with the opportunity to record. His early fifties recordings, however, did not achieve remarkable commercial success.
In 1955, under the guidance of Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, Penniman began recording in a style he had been performing onstage for years,[5] featuring varied rhythm (derived from everything from drum beats he would hear in his voice to the sounds of trains he would hear thundering by him as a child), a heavy backbeat, funky saxophone grooves, over-the-top gospel-style singing, moans, screams, and other emotive inflections, accompanied by a combination of boogie-woogie and rhythm and blues music.[1] This new music,[6] which included an original injection of funk into the rock and roll beat,[2] inspired many of the greatest recording artists of the twentieth century, including James Brown,[7] Elvis Presley,[8] Otis Redding,[9] Bob Dylan,[10] Jimi Hendrix,[9] Michael Jackson,[11] and generations of other rhythm & blues, rock, and soul music artists.[12]
On October 12, 1957, while at the height of stardom, Penniman abruptly quit rock and roll music and became a born-again Christian.[13] He had charted seventeen original hits in less than three years.[14] In January 1958, he enrolled in and attended Bible college[15] to become a preacher and evangelist and began recording and performing only gospel music for a number of years. He then moved back and forth from rock and roll to the ministry, until he was able to reconcile the two roles in later life.[16]
Penniman was among the first group of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and one of only four of those artists (along with Ray Charles, James Brown, and Fats Domino) to also receive the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2003, Penniman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[17] In 2007, his 1955 original hit "Tutti Frutti" was voted Number 1 by an eclectic panel of renowned recording artists on Mojo's The Top 100 Records That Changed The World, hailing the recording as "the sound of the birth of rock and roll."[18][19] In 2010, The United States of America's Library of Congress National Recording Registry added the groundbreaking recording to its registry, claiming that the hit, with its original “A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom!” a cappella introduction, announced a new era in music
