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in 1970, with a backing band that sounds suspiciously like the Meters.
NEED I SAY MORE?
Well, probably yes. Despite the openly "flamboyant" nature of the main performers, this song and the riddim attached to it became a huge hit, re-recorded many times since in homophobic Jamaica. Hmmmmm....
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who the lead guitarist is on this ripped from the soul piece of New Orleans R'n'B by Little Richard from 1964?
The answer may surprise a few of you
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Some years ago I bought the box set of Little Richard's recordings for Specialty Records
Included therein is a short promo segment where Little Richard is recording various takes pitching the pomade Royal Crown Hairdressing
It's amazing. He approaches this with tremendous energy and enthusiasm, and no take is even remotely the same. He's just riffing to beat the band. Kinda like his glorious music.
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RodneyPWelch of rodneypwelch@bellsouth.net
This track, one of the many lost gems resurrected on Rhino's educational, enticing and life-enhancing What It Is box set, proves one of the great funk lessons: once you're down with the groove, you don't need much in the way of words. Who better to deliver this lesson than the man who made the single greatest utterance in rock history when he said "A-Wop-Bop-A-Loo-Bop-A-Wop-Bam-Boom"? Here he doesn't do much more here than plead, as only he can, to "gimme some, gimme some,... MORE
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I spent last week in Los Angeles, hanging with my family. Along with the cooking, laughing and listening I did, I was finally able to coerce my dad into writing another "DadMog". Hope everyone enjoys reading this as much as I did: It's 1985, we're in a radio studio in Santa Monica with the architect of rock and roll, Little Richard himself, and he can't stop talking about Buddy Holly's schlong. "He was so huge. I never seen nobody that big in my life. He was huge, huge,... MORE
