Some of us think that Little Richard was The Godfather of rock. He was so amazing in so many ways: he was born with a physical infirmity, bullied, battled with racism, was tormented by his sexuality, became addicted, struggled with his faith and overcame a thousand other hurdles. All of this while making some of the greatest songs ever! We wouldn't have Rock-N-Roll, as we know it, without Little Richard. R.I.P.
You seem intent to make him a victim. He wasn't. In the time he lived he lived the times. It's wrong to put today's values on things thsy happened in the past. It's not productive is in fact anti productive. Do better.
@@dennishuntley7688 Are you trying to pretend things didn't happen again? Americans like me, and Matthew will decide if it is productive to discuss, or not. Matthew left out the fact that his musical innovations were considered "the Devils music" by much of white America back in the "Good ol' Days". He's lucky he wasn't jailed, or lynched for his disregard of American "values" in the 50s.
@@mwhich50 white america thought all rock was the devils music. Watch the video Elvis and the black community Little Richard is in it, among many greats
Not at all saying things didn't happen, it was life at the time, not today, shouldn't have happened then. Then wasn't now. Looking at the past with today's social norms is not productive. It just drags what shouldn't be into the here and now, that's not productive. Not saying forget the past, am saying look at where we are TODAY, and apply what we have learned at this point to having a better future. As long as the past is continued to be brought to the forefront as victims, there is no getting healed and move ahead in life(like picking a scab never heals). Stop seeking apologies and strive to live a better life today and in the future. ✌
I met him briefly by accident.There was a knock at the door and when my mom answered it she stood there stunned as a man was talking. I went to see who it was and it was Little Richard asking about our neighbors as they were friends of his family. After we confirmed their identity he thanked us left a note on their door waved bye and said "thank you." and drove off. Later he came back and took our neighbors to dinner.
This was from a movie and was probably the calmest performance from Little Richard, ever! For an example of usual high energy you should check out "Lucille". He could do no wrong in early rock and roll and no sock hop was complete without his music.
If it hadn't been for Elvis, there wouldn't have been a Little Richard, that's why Elvis brought their songs to the forefront on his Platform, no one else had the ball's to do it for them! This why Elvis was made King of Rock-N-Roll, they couldn't get no Air play, that's why he brought their song's to his Platform against Col. Parker and, the music industry!
Elvis brought attention to rock n roll and made it mainstream. At the time these songs weren’t really played cause of racism. Elvis had the guts to be white and do rock and roll. It’s sad that his skin color mattered then to make rock more appreciated but that’s unfortunately how it was. A lot of people hated rock and even when Elvis did it it wasn’t liked by many cause of it’s roots. Messed up that’s how it was and he really made it known.
I think that whoo! Is his signature sound. I haven't heard a lot of songs by Little Richard but what I have does that a lot so I'm pretty much used to it. Plus I just think it just kind of makes it more exciting when he does that, I don't know.
Little Richard was from my hometown, Macon, GA. He was truly the "architect" of rock-n-roll, and I had the privilege of having seen him live in Macon in 2005. He overcame so much prejudice, homophobia and was revered by the Beatles and others. Yet he never forgot where he came from.
Little Richard was one of the pioneer's of todays Rock and Roll I was 2yrs old by the time I was 5 I was listening to him and others on my grandparents record player he gave me the love of music. Just like Led Zepp.gave me the love blues and heavier Rock
The 50s were when it all changed. Jazz standards became true rock and roll. The passion and the fire came to the surface, and even if you listen to a rock song today, you can still hear the rhythms of these fifties classics.
From movie "DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK (1956 ) known as the architect of rock and roll .He influenced many singers. He is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriter Hall of Fame. 2015 received the National Museum African American Music. He was also a ordained minister in 1970.
This song came out before I was born, but my Mom used to play it when I was little. This song has been passed down to generations in my family. My daughter was born in the 80s and when she was 5 years old this was her favorite song. When she would have playdates come over she would put this song on and they would look at her so strange but after a few minutes they would all be dancing and having a ball! 😂😂😂💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
The most famous hit of a iconic band in an unrivaled gorgeous, phenomenal performance by Diana Ankudinova ( 18 y.o.) Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode /BLUES ROCK VERSION cover) Please react to Diana Ankudinova !
Little Richard called himself The Architect of Rock n Roll...and I'm not going to disagree! The Beatles were deeply influenced by him in their early years and they talked about what it was like playing in the clubs with him in Germany in the early 60s. We need a Little Richard biopic that tells his amazing story of his struggles and his triumphs!
❤️🥰❤️ Hello S & M SQUAD!!! ⭐️ This song has ALWAYS made me happy, because when I was VERY young, it would make my mother dance around the kitchen, with my older sisters, having the BEST TIME!!! Thank you for the sweet memory! 😪😇 Mom left us to go Heaven in 2007, and many of the songs you’ve played from the 1950’s remind me of Her and My Father, who passed away three years after Mom, in 2010. They’re together in Heaven, now holding hands and having the time of their lives! Thanks again for a lovely trip down memory lane with, Mom & Dad ❤️🥰❤️ S AND M SQUAD IS THE BEST!!! ❤️🥰❤️
Alleged unexpurgated lyrics: Tutti Frutti, good booty If it don't fit, don't force it You can grease it, make it easy They cleaned up the lyrics to make it more appropriate for a typical 1950s audience. 😁
I am 37 and I grew up to this music because of my parents. This was the music they grew up on because they were born in the 40s. I can actually dance like the couple on the screen because my momma taught me when I was a young girl in the middle of our living room. We will go out dancing to our local VFW when they play 50s and 60s music. We are even planning our next visit after I heal up from hip preservation surgery.
Haven’t you reached to him before? If not you have to check out Lucille,Long Tall Sally, Good Goly miss Molly, and Great Gosh Almighty. Keep it up guys!
That is the LITTLE RICHARD WHOOOOO....!!!!! This performance is pretty calm .....maybe cause it was about the dancers in this Video...they are great too!!
He liked to work the stage he even danced on the sound equipment. Venues were afraid he would get hurt so the posted security next to the equipment to keep him off
You guys just got to the root of it all. In '56 there were all kinds of pop voices, but Little Richard is pretty much the first real rock voice with grit. He is the legend.
Paul Mccartney (The Beatles), while playing at the same venues back in the day, asked Little Richard how to do the "WOOOOS". That's what I've heard, anyway. Love you, Shawn and Mel, so joyful and entertaining watching you get into these "oldies but goodies"!!!! 🤣🤣 Janet from Louisiana ☮🖤🤘
Me&my boyfriend were walking down Hollywood Blvd. around 1992. We saw Little Richard crusin by in a black limo. We freaked! We started running after the limo. I just happened to have my new camera on me I tried to take a picture. My son who was about 9 at the time couldnt catch up to us. I had to keep back trackin so I could cross him safely the keep tryin runnin. Finially his limo took off and I got a picture of his arm wavin out the window. I was in my late 30s at the time& my boyfriend in his early40s. Little Richard made us kids again!. Love him sooooo much.😊❤
Check out a PBS Documentary on him.. HE'S THE ORIGINATOR.. THE ARCHITECT.. THE BEGINNING OF IT ALL.. THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL LITTLE RICHARD. THAT'S HIS ORIGINAL TITLE WHEN HE TOURED THE WORLD.
Original song was much more explicit and in large part about gay sex. He’d done it in person for years before making a clean version to record. Definitely an influential artist.
watched a video clip on tube few years back little Richard was speaking of repenting end of his life gaining whole world not meaning nothing over your soul. was glad to have seen it. he struggled falling many years he said.
This may have been the first rock & roll song I ever heard. When I was about 7 years old (1955) mainstream radio didn't play black R&B songs. The few black performers they played, though great performers, were jazz and pop artists like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole. But in my bedroom, with my little clock radio, I discovered WILD, the Boston black radio station (called a "race station" back then). It was music different than anything else I heard and I loved it. It was all R&B and rock and roll and some jazz. This song quickly became my favorite, another was Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame". I can't remember all the songs I first heard on that station, but it became my favorite station to fall asleep to at bedtime. In 1955 there wasn't a single black artist in the yearly Billboard top ten, but there was Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and his Comets and two covers of songs originally done by black artists "The Wallflower Song (Roll with Me Henry)" by Etta James was covered by Georgia Gibbs (with a slight change to the title and lyrics to "Dance with Me Henry" - "roll with me" was probably thought to be too suggestive!), and Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame" covered by Pat Boone. They were the only songs with any connection to rock. The other's were songs like "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" and "The Yellow Rose of Texas" (although the original "Unchained Melody", later to become a huge hit for the Righteous Brothers was also in the top ten that year). In 1956 things began to make a dramatic change for the better. Elvis Presley made his appearance on Ed Sullivan in one of the most watched TV appearances ever, and suddenly every one new about rock 'n roll. By the end of the year a few of the mainstream radio stations were playing Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino and other black R&B and rock & roll artists on late night shows. By the end of the next year, pretty much all the stations were playing them in their daytime programs too. It was like rock & roll had finally fully arrived, and many of the most important founders of the form were finally getting their due recognition! Unfortunately there were still a lot of earlier black artists who had huge influences on the evolution of rock & roll who never got the recognition they deserved in their lifetime.
i had just watched your BTO reaction, then tuned into this one and saw the look on your faces at the first "OOOOOOOOOHHH", where you paused the video, and i thought to myself, " bbbbbbaaaa ba ba ba baby, you ain't seen nothing yet".
He used to perform this back in the days, before he was famous, at gay clubs all around Georgia. He did a character named Miss Laverne and would sing this one all the time. However, he/Miss Laverne would sing the original lyrics which were, "Tutti Frutti good booty."
When Prince came out, I said he looks like Little Richard. You can compare the woos and some of the high notes. LR was a big influence to Prince. RIP to Little Richard and Prince 🙏❤️
Some of us think that Little Richard was The Godfather of rock. He was so amazing in so many ways: he was born with a physical infirmity, bullied, battled with racism, was tormented by his sexuality, became addicted, struggled with his faith and overcame a thousand other hurdles. All of this while making some of the greatest songs ever! We wouldn't have Rock-N-Roll, as we know it, without Little Richard. R.I.P.
No we wouldn't. You are so right.
You seem intent to make him a victim. He wasn't. In the time he lived he lived the times. It's wrong to put today's values on things thsy happened in the past. It's not productive is in fact anti productive.
Do better.
@@dennishuntley7688 Are you trying to pretend things didn't happen again? Americans like me, and Matthew will decide if it is productive to discuss, or not.
Matthew left out the fact that his musical innovations were considered "the Devils music" by much of white America back in the "Good ol' Days". He's lucky he wasn't jailed, or lynched for his disregard of American "values" in the 50s.
@@mwhich50 white america thought all rock was the devils music. Watch the video Elvis and the black community Little Richard is in it, among many greats
Not at all saying things didn't happen, it was life at the time, not today, shouldn't have happened then. Then wasn't now. Looking at the past with today's social norms is not productive. It just drags what shouldn't be into the here and now, that's not productive. Not saying forget the past, am saying look at where we are TODAY, and apply what we have learned at this point to having a better future. As long as the past is continued to be brought to the forefront as victims, there is no getting healed and move ahead in life(like picking a scab never heals). Stop seeking apologies and strive to live a better life today and in the future. ✌
Richard taught the Beatles how to do that “ woooo!” They worshipped him.
This is a movie- he was crazy wild live!
I met him briefly by accident.There was a knock at the door and when my mom answered it she stood there stunned as a man was talking. I went to see who it was and it was Little Richard asking about our neighbors as they were friends of his family. After we confirmed their identity he thanked us left a note on their door waved bye and said "thank you." and drove off. Later he came back and took our neighbors to dinner.
This was calm for Little Richard. He usually jumped and danced around
R.I.P. This man wrestled with his true self for a long time. His talent is just all over the place. Love him!😎💕
The "Hoo" was his trademark--besides the incredible piano playing, that is.
And hence the Beatles borrowed it as well
@@toot0913 ; To a degree, a small.
Last time I checked, no member of the Beatles played the boogie on piano while singing simultaneously.
He used to use that "HOO" to signal the solo horns
@@toot0913 Paul tried hard, but never quite stuck it like Little Richard
This was from a movie and was probably the calmest performance from Little Richard, ever! For an example of usual high energy you should check out "Lucille". He could do no wrong in early rock and roll and no sock hop was complete without his music.
I was thinking this was pretty calm for Little Richard. He still ruled the dance floor in the late 60’s and early 70’s when I came along.
I Agree, I've just put up a similar recommendation to back yours up. All the best.
He did Long Tall Sally in the same movie I think. A little more energetic than this clip.
@@intheparlance He was wild in that one, all right!
I think they made him tone it WAY down for that audience. His dance was missing and sorely missed, here
Before the artist formerly known as Prince there was Little Richard.
No question. Little Richard is one of the greatest rock talents of the 50s. I have always loved Little Richard's music.
Hay kids I was 13 years ago in 56 .I loved the rock and roll then and at 79 I still love the old rock ,👍👍
This man influence Elvis and the Beatles a true underrated talent cool channel
Little Richard was always a showman!! 💁🏻♀️
You have to check out some Little Richard songs where he goes to town on the piano. He was one of the greatest.
Loved Little Richards hits since I was a baby. The real King of Rock 'n' Roll in my opinion.
If it hadn't been for Elvis, there wouldn't have been a Little Richard, that's why Elvis brought their songs to the forefront on his Platform, no one else had the ball's to do it for them! This why Elvis was made King of Rock-N-Roll, they couldn't get no Air play, that's why he brought their song's to his Platform against Col. Parker and, the music industry!
@@naomiwarner7117 I'm British. Racism never figured in our musical preferences, record buying or radio airtime.
Elvis brought attention to rock n roll and made it mainstream. At the time these songs weren’t really played cause of racism. Elvis had the guts to be white and do rock and roll. It’s sad that his skin color mattered then to make rock more appreciated but that’s unfortunately how it was. A lot of people hated rock and even when Elvis did it it wasn’t liked by many cause of it’s roots. Messed up that’s how it was and he really made it known.
Love your reactions! Mel we need for you to sing more, you have a beautiful voice! Shawn great reactions! Keep up the great work!
Little Richard had a very powerful voice i have many of his songs in my collection
I think that whoo! Is his signature sound. I haven't heard a lot of songs by Little Richard but what I have does that a lot so I'm pretty much used to it. Plus I just think it just kind of makes it more exciting when he does that, I don't know.
His whoo! Is my favorite thing about him, lol
Little Richard was from my hometown, Macon, GA. He was truly the "architect" of rock-n-roll, and I had the privilege of having seen him live in Macon in 2005. He overcame so much prejudice, homophobia and was revered by the Beatles and others. Yet he never forgot where he came from.
Little Richard was one of the pioneer's of todays Rock and Roll I was 2yrs old by the time I was 5 I was listening to him and others on my grandparents record player he gave me the love of music. Just like Led Zepp.gave me the love blues and heavier Rock
The 50s were when it all changed. Jazz standards became true rock and roll. The passion and the fire came to the surface, and even if you listen to a rock song today, you can still hear the rhythms of these fifties classics.
Rock and roll owns more to rhythm and blues and blues than it does to jazz
From movie "DON'T KNOCK THE ROCK (1956 ) known as the architect of rock and roll .He influenced many singers. He is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriter Hall of Fame. 2015 received the National Museum African American Music. He was also a ordained minister in 1970.
Yes little Richard absolute legend. Lucille and Jenny great songs too.
That was from a 1956 movie called Don't Knock the Rock, hence the highly sanitized performance of Tutti Frutti. He was normally a lot wilder.
This song came out before I was born, but my Mom used to play it when I was little. This song has been passed down to generations in my family.
My daughter was born in the 80s and when she was 5 years old this was her favorite song. When she would have playdates come over she would put this song on and they would look at her so strange but after a few minutes they would all be dancing and having a ball! 😂😂😂💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
This was my oldest sons favorite song when he was tiny! My mother has called him Tutti Frutti for the last 30 years!😆🥰
Little Richard had energy to burn. His early stuff especially was brilliant. One of the real masters of rock and roll.
My mom had several of his 45s when I was growing up and I listened to them all the time. I still have them all now
All Little Richard interviews and guest appearances are worth watching
The most famous hit of a iconic band in an unrivaled gorgeous, phenomenal performance by Diana Ankudinova ( 18 y.o.)
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Little Richard called himself The Architect of Rock n Roll...and I'm not going to disagree! The Beatles were deeply influenced by him in their early years and they talked about what it was like playing in the clubs with him in Germany in the early 60s. We need a Little Richard biopic that tells his amazing story of his struggles and his triumphs!
Little Richard went on to become a preacher. Totally changed his life but still kept his heart and soul in Rock & Roll.
Saw Little Richard several times; he was AMAZING. R.I.P. Richard Penniman
❤️🥰❤️ Hello S & M SQUAD!!! ⭐️ This song has ALWAYS made me happy, because when I was VERY young, it would make my mother dance around the kitchen, with my older sisters, having the BEST TIME!!! Thank you for the sweet memory! 😪😇 Mom left us to go Heaven in 2007, and many of the songs you’ve played from the 1950’s remind me of Her and My Father, who passed away three years after Mom, in 2010. They’re together in Heaven, now holding hands and having the time of their lives! Thanks again for a lovely trip down memory lane with, Mom & Dad ❤️🥰❤️ S AND M SQUAD IS THE BEST!!! ❤️🥰❤️
Alleged unexpurgated lyrics:
Tutti Frutti, good booty
If it don't fit, don't force it
You can grease it, make it easy
They cleaned up the lyrics to make it more appropriate for a typical 1950s audience. 😁
Little Richard said he was the Originator and the Emancipator. Love him!
I am 37 and I grew up to this music because of my parents. This was the music they grew up on because they were born in the 40s. I can actually dance like the couple on the screen because my momma taught me when I was a young girl in the middle of our living room. We will go out dancing to our local VFW when they play 50s and 60s music. We are even planning our next visit after I heal up from hip preservation surgery.
He was so ahead of his time. Pure genius.
Haven’t you reached to him before? If not you have to check out Lucille,Long Tall Sally, Good Goly miss Molly, and Great Gosh Almighty. Keep it up guys!
That is the LITTLE RICHARD WHOOOOO....!!!!! This performance is pretty calm .....maybe cause it was about the dancers in this Video...they are great too!!
He liked to work the stage he even danced on the sound equipment. Venues were afraid he would get hurt so the posted security next to the equipment to keep him off
You guys just got to the root of it all. In '56 there were all kinds of pop voices, but Little Richard is pretty much the first real rock voice with grit. He is the legend.
Love y'all, love Little Richard too! I think y'all would love Dion and the Belmonts song I Wonder Why. Great Doo Wop song. ✌
Thanks for enjoying the music of my youth. How could you not.
Wow! To say Little Richard laid the foundation for everyone else in Rock and R&B is the understatement of the century
Back when we danced! I love it! My husband was the best dance partner ever!
Rock and roll came right out of boogie woogie piano style. Little Richard one of the founding fathers of rock and roll. So much energy.
Little Richard always knew how to light up a room. 🎉🎉
The couple dancing is doing what my generation called "The Bop".
Loved it!!!
Paul Mccartney (The Beatles), while playing at the same venues back in the day, asked Little Richard how to do the "WOOOOS". That's what I've heard, anyway. Love you, Shawn and Mel, so joyful and entertaining watching you get into these "oldies but goodies"!!!! 🤣🤣 Janet from Louisiana ☮🖤🤘
From a seventy four year old from the UK. This man's sound was the essence of rock and roll and was idolised here in the UK
My parents taught all of us how to dance like that couple,so much fun,👍👍👍
Always guaranteed entertainment. His signature " Woo!!!".
The Beatles asked Little Richard to teach them how to do the scream.
This 70 year old hippie is lovin’ your reactions ☮️🌻❤️😎
I saw him in concert much later in life and he still rocked it.
I did too! With Chuck Berry. Fun concert.
@@ajruther67 yes it Chuck Berty, Little Rochard and Jerry Lee Lewis
@@cassbumk3565 Jerry Lee was not at the concert I attended
Little Richard IS the king of rock and roll! He's the best!! He was a beautiful person.
I was about 14 when this came out. I’ve been hearing these songs almost my whole life.
I’m sure you all may be amused by knowing that the original uncensored lyrics went “tutti fruity, good booty” 😊
😂
"If it don't fit, don't force it
You can grease it, make it easy..." XD
66 ans et toujours le même plaisir d'écoute,il a révolutionné la musique
I would love to learn to dance like that. It looks like sooooooo much fun.
Little Richard gave us so many musical acts the Great Innovator of Rock and Roll
Me&my boyfriend were walking down Hollywood Blvd. around 1992. We saw Little Richard crusin by in a black limo. We freaked! We started running after the limo. I just happened to have my new camera on me I tried to take a picture. My son who was about 9 at the time couldnt catch up to us. I had to keep back trackin so I could cross him safely the keep tryin runnin. Finially his limo took off and I got a picture of his arm wavin out the window. I was in my late 30s at the time& my boyfriend in his early40s. Little Richard made us kids again!. Love him sooooo much.😊❤
Richard "Little Richard" Penimen. The original rocker. He was amazing at the rock show in Wadeba Iowa in 1969. Tore it up!!!
This was a throw-back, but never, never, never a throw-away. Fun stuff always!
The Architect of Rock and Roll
Him slipping that first WHOOO was diabolical😂so easy for him
1950s & early 1960s - the birth of R&R!
The best Rock'n Roll vocalist, ever!
Check out a PBS Documentary on him.. HE'S THE ORIGINATOR.. THE ARCHITECT.. THE BEGINNING OF IT ALL.. THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL LITTLE RICHARD. THAT'S HIS ORIGINAL TITLE WHEN HE TOURED THE WORLD.
Incredible to see this video from 1956 I think little richards sound was way ahead of his time
When the music was so good and uplifting. And the musicians had class
Tutti Fruti meant something specific to us back in the day, which was not really spoken about. Thank God, we are more open about all of that today.
Great singer of all time great live show great voice
Jimi Hendrix on guitar in the background, I bet you don’t believe me but I swear it’s true, as always great reaction, love from the 🇬🇧
If that's Jimi Hendrix on guitar he was only 14 years old. 😎😎😎😎
You’re right! Jimi backed not only Little Richard but the Isley Brothers, too.
Jimi didn't join Richard until about 10 years later. In 1956 Jimi was only 14 years old.
Jimi played with little Richard in the 60's not during his heyday in the 50's.
@@keithroberts4952 your right, but I’m sure I saw a documentary saying that he was playing on this film!!!
Look for Little Richard inducting Jody Watley into an award best new artist. He is helarious.
I think of "The Brave Little Toaster" when I hear this one!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The king of rock. I shook his hand in 2002.
Little Richard "Keep A Knockin'" and "I Can't Believe You Wanna Leave"
Little Richard Master of Rock n Roll!,,,,
Original song was much more explicit and in large part about gay sex. He’d done it in person for years before making a clean version to record. Definitely an influential artist.
watched a video clip on tube few years back little Richard was speaking of repenting end of his life gaining whole world not meaning nothing over your soul. was glad to have seen it. he struggled falling many years he said.
Little Richard his title the architect of rock and roll
The real king of rock n' roll. Jim
The falseto WOOOO, was Little Richard's trademark.
Obrigado pela contribuição L.R,um monstro!
Prince learned his swag from Little Richard
Check out Screamin Jay Hawkins.. he was a 1950's singer, many consider him the father of shock rock... He had a very operatic voice
This may have been the first rock & roll song I ever heard. When I was about 7 years old (1955) mainstream radio didn't play black R&B songs. The few black performers they played, though great performers, were jazz and pop artists like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole. But in my bedroom, with my little clock radio, I discovered WILD, the Boston black radio station (called a "race station" back then). It was music different than anything else I heard and I loved it.
It was all R&B and rock and roll and some jazz. This song quickly became my favorite, another was Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame". I can't remember all the songs I first heard on that station, but it became my favorite station to fall asleep to at bedtime.
In 1955 there wasn't a single black artist in the yearly Billboard top ten, but there was Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and his Comets and two covers of songs originally done by black artists "The Wallflower Song (Roll with Me Henry)" by Etta James was covered by Georgia Gibbs (with a slight change to the title and lyrics to "Dance with Me Henry" - "roll with me" was probably thought to be too suggestive!), and Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame" covered by Pat Boone. They were the only songs with any connection to rock. The other's were songs like "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" and "The Yellow Rose of Texas" (although the original "Unchained Melody", later to become a huge hit for the Righteous Brothers was also in the top ten that year).
In 1956 things began to make a dramatic change for the better. Elvis Presley made his appearance on Ed Sullivan in one of the most watched TV appearances ever, and suddenly every one new about rock 'n roll. By the end of the year a few of the mainstream radio stations were playing Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino and other black R&B and rock & roll artists on late night shows.
By the end of the next year, pretty much all the stations were playing them in their daytime programs too. It was like rock & roll had finally fully arrived, and many of the most important founders of the form were finally getting their due recognition! Unfortunately there were still a lot of earlier black artists who had huge influences on the evolution of rock & roll who never got the recognition they deserved in their lifetime.
Good read
Yuh, and that's the jitterbug those folks are doing. This is REAL music.
Like I told some others, you need to hear his version of Itsy Bitsy Spider from the 80's!!!! It is great and was even on rock TV at the time.
i had just watched your BTO reaction, then tuned into this one and saw the look on your faces at the first "OOOOOOOOOHHH", where you paused the video, and i thought to myself, " bbbbbbaaaa ba ba ba baby, you ain't seen nothing yet".
Still have his very first LP.......sadly he just died a few days ago..........87 RIP
that's what you call rock n roll.
He used to perform this back in the days, before he was famous, at gay clubs all around Georgia. He did a character named Miss Laverne and would sing this one all the time. However, he/Miss Laverne would sing the original lyrics which were, "Tutti Frutti good booty."
I like the band , they look so cool. Little Richard too of course
Mel, you do the whoop very good. That is a great imitation
My Mom’s music - may she RIP - she saw him LIVE in NYC in the 50a!
Sensational song, Sensational dancers
When Prince came out, I said he looks like Little Richard. You can compare the woos and some of the high notes. LR was a big influence to Prince. RIP to Little Richard and Prince 🙏❤️
No one can WOOOOO like him
Richard Penniman from Macon GA learned to sing like this in the church.