Legendary 50’s Rock and Roll pioneer Little Richard at 87. I can’t imagine what it was like to have seen Little Richard back in the 1950’s- it had be a shock to the world. He certainly wasn’t human- he seemed to me to be out of this world. With Little Richard’s death it looks like Jerry Lee Lewis is the last of the 50’s rockers still standing. Who would have ever thought that.
article below on Little Richard from Rolling Stone
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/little-richard-dead-48505/
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My dad told me…before I heard the man sing…that Little Richard had the biggest voice he ever heard in his life. He also told me about how good his records sounded in the fifties and the old Pat Boone records that kids would have to listen to when their parents were around and hide the Richard records.
Those records still sound good. He’s another one who should have been bigger than what he was. and Pat Boone what a fraud!
His retirement to the ministry in the 50s probably killed his momentum.
A Souless Fraud…
Isn’t it amazing the bad luck the 50’s rockers had… if there had been a conspiracy to kill rock and roll they couldn’t have worked it better [for them}- Buddy Holly plane crash/ Richard ministry/ Elvis-Army/ Jerry Lee marries his 13 year old cousin/ Berry jail…I am sure I am missing someone…
Oh…one more thing was Payola…that didn’t help
The only one that remained unscathed was Fats Domino…
and Pat Boone !! just kidding..
lol…I sometimes think he WAS planted to kill it.
The Osmonds had more soul.
Woooo… You just warped my mind…but you are completely right.
My earliest memories of hearing music was from my older brother, who was 16 years my senior. He was heavily into Little Richard, Elvis, Fats Domino & the Everly Brothers when I was 2 or 3 years old, so I learned to love rock’n’roll while literally still a baby.
You were there from about the beginning hearing artists like that at such a young age! Luckily he was into great stuff!
I think Jerry Lee is the only left from that group.
The only other one from the 50’s that I can think of is- Don Everly… and of course Pat Boone! just kidding.
Don Everly. Good catch, bad on my part. Pat Boone? Ouch! Probably a very nice man but did he do some damage to ‘Tutti Frutti’. You would know the stats on his version and Little Richards. Hopefully LR made a few bucks from that.
I know Chuck Berry was a bitter guy- but he did have reason to be. Those early pioneers were ripped off pretty bad.
Brutal, criminal and just wrong is so many ways. Hey Hans, we just have to counter balance that stuff.
This is true!