Tag: influential figure in popular music and culture for more than six decades

Definitive Little Richard 3CD box, spanning specialty and vee-jay years

17-08-2015 @ 10:12

Little Richard: An influential figure in popular music and culture for more than six decades (wikipedia)

In the early ’50s, Little Richard Penniman combined the spirit of church music, the barroom-hewn raunch of blues and the swing of New Orleans jazz and turned it into something altogether new — rock ’n’ roll. When the Macon, Ga. native signed to Art Rupe’s Specialty Records in Los Angeles, he was in turn dispatched to New Orleans to record at Cosimo’s legendary studio. Over the course of sev...

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