Little Richard - King Of Rock And Roll - The Complete Reprise Recordings '2005
Artist | Little Richard Related artists |
Album name | King Of Rock And Roll - The Complete Reprise Recordings |
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Date | 2005 |
Genre | Soul |
Play time | 3:28:50 |
Format / Bitrate | Stereo 1420 Kbps
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Media | CD |
Size | 498 mb / 1.26 gb |
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 Little Richard was not the only original rock & roller to attempt a comeback in the late 60s and early 70s, but he may have been the one to take the greatest musical risks. Fats Domino merely updated his sound (albeit in a charming fashion), Jerry Lee Lewis refashioned himself as a hardcore country singer, and Chuck Berry pandered with My Ding-A-Ling, but Little Richard pushed himself on his three albums for Reprise, all of which were collected -- along with his contributions to Quincy Jones 1972 Dollar$ soundtrack album, non-LP singles, session outtakes, and a complete unreleased album from 1972 called Southern Child -- in 2005 by Rhino Handmade for the triple-disc set The King of Rock and Roll. Richard had been an active recording artist ever since the mid-60s, when he had signed to Vee-Jay and cut effective but neglected soul singles, but the rock & roll revival of the late 60s gave him the opportunity to launch a splashy, big-budget comeback, and he seized it. Instead of serving up the expected high-energy rock & roll on his 1970 LP, The Rill Thing, he recorded an eclectic, wide-ranging album that touched on country, acoustic blues, hard-driving funk, soul, melodic pop, and rock & roll. While there were wah-wah guitars and electric sitars that clearly marked it as a product of its time, those production quirks fade into the background, since the range and accomplishment of the music are quite staggering. Its overpowering, but not in the familiar Little Richard fashion, where the boundless, reckless energy is the defining characteristic. Instead, The Rill Thing and the albums that followed it -- 1971s King of Rock n Roll, 1972s The Second Coming, and the unreleased Southern Child -- all followed the same musical blueprint and aesthetic: Little Richard opened his music up, slowing things down on occasion, varied his arrangement and styles, and wrote powerful, memorable new songs, while carefully picking songs from Hank Williams, John Fogerty, and the Beatles to showcase the scope of his music. Sure, there still was the familiar piledriving rock & roll, but it was part of a mosaic of American roots music that proved that Little Richard could do it all -- rock, pop, country, blues, soul, gospel, funk -- and do it his own way. There were the occasional missteps -- the instrumental jams all stretch out too long -- but they were rare. On the whole, his Reprise work was all-encompassing, fully realized, and -- in its own way -- as exciting as his timeless work for Specialty. And thats why The King of Rock and Roll isnt just essential for any serious student of rock & roll, its one of the few reissues of this decade that can truly be called revelatory. :: TRACKLIST :: 1-1 Freedom Blues 3:01 1-2 Greenwood, Mississippi 3:32 1-3 Two-Time Loser 3:20 1-4 Dew Drop Inn 2:41 1-5 Somebody Saw You 3:39 1-6 Spreadin Natta, Whats The Matter? 4:37 1-7 The Rill Thing 10:27 1-8 Lovesick Blues 4:34 1-9 I Saw Her Standing There 3:31 1-10 Shake A Hand (If You Can) 2:41 1-11 Money Is 4:30 1-12 Do It-To It 2:52 1-13 King Of Rock And Roll 3:11 1-14 Joy To The World 6:49 1-15 Brown Sugar 3:23 1-16 In The Name 3:10 1-17 Dancing In The Street 5:31 1-18 Midnight Special 4:02 1-19 The Way You Do The Things You Do 3:29 2-1 Green Power 3:59 2-2 Im So Lonesome I Could Cry 2:40 2-3 Settin The Woods On Fire 2:22 2-4 Born On The Bayou 4:28 2-5 Mockingbird Sally 3:41 2-6 Second Line 4:50 2-7 It Aint What You Do, Its The Way How You Do It 2:45 2-8 The Saints 5:03 2-9 Nuki Suki 5:32 2-10 Rockin Rockin Boogie 5:29 2-11 Prophet Of Peace 3:19 2-12 Thomasine 3:11 2-13 Sanctified, Satisfied Toe-Tapper 7:12 2-14 In The Name (Version 2) 2:45 2-15 Why Dont You Love Me 2:14 2-16 Settin The Woods On Fire (Instrumental) 3:00 2-17 Mississippi (Instrumental) 3:02 2-18 Still Miss Liza Jane 5:23 2-19 Open Up The Red Sea 4:43 3-1 California (Im Comin) 3:16 3-2 If You Pick Her Too Hard (She Comes Out Of Tune) 3:51 3-3 Burning Up With Love 3:20 3-4 Aint No Tellin 5:54 3-5 Last Years Race Horse (Cant Run In This Years Race) 4:14 3-6 Southern Child 2:56 3-7 In The Name (Version 3) 2:57 3-8 Over Yonder 3:55 3-9 I Git A Little Lonely 1:43 3-10 Puppy Dog Song 8:40 3-11 In The Name (Version 4, Take 1; False Start) 0:43 3-12 In The Name (Version 4, Take 2) 3:02 3-13 In The Name (Version 4, Take 3) 3:04 3-14 Sneak The Freak 4:11 3-15 Radio Spot A 1:02 3-16 Radio Spot B 1:01 This compilation ℗ 1972 & 2004 Warner Bros. Records Inc. © 2004 Warner Strategic Marketing. Limited at 2500 copies. Tracks 2-14 to 3-14: previously unreleased.
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