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The Very Best of Little Richard is the first high-profile, high-quality Little Richard compilation to be released in the U.S. since 1991's The Georgia Peach, a disc that held the title of best available Little Richard hits collection for roughly 17 years. The Very Best is designed as a replacement to that collection, partially because The Georgia Peach was a little old but also because Concord Music Group -- the label that formed in 2004 when Concord and Fantasy Records merged -- now owned the Specialty Records vault and could use their own new Little Richard collection. So, Concord Music Group revived the Specialty imprint and released this excellent hits collection, which at 25 tracks is just as long as The Georgia Peach. Fully 20 of those 25 tracks are shared between the two compilations, which should come as no surprise as these 20 tracks are the big hits and standards, ranging from "Tutti Frutti," "Long Tall Sally," and "Good Golly Miss Molly" to "Ooh! My Soul," "Bama Lama Bama Loo," and the medley of "Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey" that the Beatles later covered. As The Very Best of Little Richard ends a little anticlimactically with a perfunctory rehearsal take of "Hound Dog" from Richard's last session, a pedestrian demo of the blues "Baby" from his pre-Specialty days, and a surprisingly tame live medley from 1964, this pales slightly in comparison to The Georgia Peach, but that's nitpicking: apart from these three OK cuts, this is as good a Little Richard compilation as you can get, which means this is as good as rock & roll gets.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Earl Palmer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Richard Penniman, ComposerLyricist - Lee Allen, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Lubin, ComposerLyricist - Dorothy La Bostrie, ComposerLyricist - Frank Fields, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Little Richard, Piano, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alvin "Red" Tyler, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Alexander Robert Blackwell, Producer
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Enotris Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Richard Penniman, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, MainArtist - Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Robert Blackwell, ComposerLyricist - John S. Marascalco, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
James Smith, ComposerLyricist - Albert Collins, ComposerLyricist - Richard Penniman, ComposerLyricist - Edwin J. Bocage, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Edward Bocage, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Robert Blackwell, ComposerLyricist - John S. Marascalco, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Robert Blackwell, ComposerLyricist - John S. Marascalco, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
John Marascalco, ComposerLyricist - Michael James Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
John Marascalco, ComposerLyricist - Richard Penniman, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Little Richard, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Robert William Troup Jr., ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Robert Blackwell, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, MainArtist - Marcel Millet, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Albert Collins, ComposerLyricist - Richard Penniman, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, MainArtist - A. Gaunay, Translator - Claude Pitkowski, Translator
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
John S. Marascalco, ComposerLyricist - Leo Price, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Enotris Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Enotris Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Little Richard, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Little Richard, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Little Richard, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
BENNY DAVIS, ComposerLyricist - Harry Akst, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Jerry Leiber, ComposerLyricist - Mike Stoller, ComposerLyricist - Richard Penniman, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Little Richard, MainArtist - Gus Edwards, Composer - Edward Madden, Author
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Little Richard, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
David Curlee Williams, Author - Sunny David, Composer - Little Richard, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Jerry Leiber, ComposerLyricist - Mike Stoller, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Richard Penniman, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Renald J. Richard, ComposerLyricist - Ray Charles, ComposerLyricist - Richard Penniman, ComposerLyricist - Dave Bartholomew, ComposerLyricist - Fats Domino, ComposerLyricist - Joe Lubin, ComposerLyricist - Dorothy La Bostrie, ComposerLyricist - Little Richard, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Specialty Records, Inc./Fantasy, Inc
Album review
The Very Best of Little Richard is the first high-profile, high-quality Little Richard compilation to be released in the U.S. since 1991's The Georgia Peach, a disc that held the title of best available Little Richard hits collection for roughly 17 years. The Very Best is designed as a replacement to that collection, partially because The Georgia Peach was a little old but also because Concord Music Group -- the label that formed in 2004 when Concord and Fantasy Records merged -- now owned the Specialty Records vault and could use their own new Little Richard collection. So, Concord Music Group revived the Specialty imprint and released this excellent hits collection, which at 25 tracks is just as long as The Georgia Peach. Fully 20 of those 25 tracks are shared between the two compilations, which should come as no surprise as these 20 tracks are the big hits and standards, ranging from "Tutti Frutti," "Long Tall Sally," and "Good Golly Miss Molly" to "Ooh! My Soul," "Bama Lama Bama Loo," and the medley of "Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey" that the Beatles later covered. As The Very Best of Little Richard ends a little anticlimactically with a perfunctory rehearsal take of "Hound Dog" from Richard's last session, a pedestrian demo of the blues "Baby" from his pre-Specialty days, and a surprisingly tame live medley from 1964, this pales slightly in comparison to The Georgia Peach, but that's nitpicking: apart from these three OK cuts, this is as good a Little Richard compilation as you can get, which means this is as good as rock & roll gets.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 25 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:39
- Main artists: Little Richard
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Specialty Records
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B R&B
© 2008 Concord Music Group, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 2008 Concord Music Group, Inc.
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