Little Richards is GREAT, but as Chuck Berry said "How do I describe Elvis ? The greatest that ever was, or ever will be!" Elvis was, is, always will be THE KING and the greatest entertainer/performer of ALL TIME !!!!!!!!!!!!
@@ITILII ....except he wasn't, in the end he turned his back on rock and roll for ballads. Berry himself was the true rock and roll pioneer ! Oh and Elvis didn't write any songs unlike Berry.
Having seen him live .he was just incredible and easily the most amazing act ive ever seen in over 40 years of concerts! Just a force of nature and the greatest rock and roll artist of all time in my opinion .and yes i have seen chuck berry and jerry lee lewis. Both also incredible .
My God! No wonder why he influenced so many people. Elton John, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and of course David Bowie (RIP). I sometimes forget what an amazing performer he is.
@@dwightlove3704 yup, just reading NPR's article about the upcoming American Masters documentary on LIttle Richard. Beatles and the Stones both opened for him he was the star and they were the unknowns!
@@justlookin61 Yes he was very influential amongst his peers .He did a interview with Dick Cavett saying that Elvis Presley made more money than he did singing his classic TUTTI FRUITTI.If Presley only knew what he was singing about in that song.
@@sallyshipwreck4315 yep! My grandma tells me about it all the time. She was born in 1920 and was a huge music fan as her dad was a local blues musician and though i learned a lot about how hard it was being a musician during Jim Crow, i realized that the darkest parts were left out of history books unfortunately.
In 1988 there was USSR and we never saw US movies. It was Predator - my first US movie and my first rock-n-roll song. It was something extremly different, something that i cant even imagine. Yes...
Believe me, nothing sounded like this is 1956. This is unbelievably groundbreaking music that gave birth to funk, rock, soul and all the rest of it. God bless Little Richard for bringing it to us.
I was born in 1940 and can remember listening to the radio when there was "no rock and roll music". It was my good fortune to having been a teenager when rock and roll hit the charts. Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, Bo Diddley, and many others contributed to it's growth and I can say it all had heart. I love 'em all. Read Little Richard's bio........GREAT!
Gotta love that wonder bread audience..... He was my absolute favorite growing up in the early 60s, and he still is. I met him in NY a number of years ago and I was literally speechless
Saxophonist Grady Gaines passed away on January 29th, 2021. He was 86 years old... Mr. Gaines was working as a session musician in 1955 when Little Richard asked him to join his backing band, the Upsetters. He became the band’s leader, touring extensively with Richard for the next few years as well as playing sax on recordings including “Keep A Knockin’,” “Ooh My Soul,” and “I’ll Never Let You Go.” Mr. Gaines had an iconic moment with Richard in the 1956 movie 'Don't Knock The Rock', he jumped atop Richard’s piano and played his solo sax on "Long Tall Sally"... After Richard stepped away from secular music in 1958, the Upsetters continued on, backing other greats including Sam Cooke (1931-1964) and James Brown (1933-2006). In later years, he formed a new band, the Texas Upsetters. He toured and recorded with the Texas Upsetters for years... In the 1970s he played with Millie Jackson and Curtis Mayfield... May he R.I.P.
I asked if we could have this on in music today; the teacher agreed- EVERYONE loved it :) The sax solo is epic, its cool how back then performers were crazy!!!
Music then was a lot more for music sake, music has changed with music videos and being entirely about a target audience to make money. And if you go even further back in history to the classical days, some prominent musicians and composers even died poor having made no money but instead made music for the sake of music.
REALLY, WHY IS IT THEN THAT YOU REFUSE TO ADMIT BILL WITHERS WROTE, PEFORMED FIRSTT, AND HAD THE BST RENDITION OF "AIN'T NO SUNSHINE"? ???????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Raquel Rojas same here sweetheart....music from the 50's to the mid and early late 90's were music. Music now in days has mess up these young generations
The parallels between this is and modern music is uncanny. Goes to show you that humanity is one long cyclical loop. Whether it's your parents saying "Oh it's just some guy saying long tall sally" or "Oh it's just some guy saying guchi gang a shit ton" it's all the same story. Kids will be kids.
Redline Rider I know what I'm saying, do you know what you're saying? What does prolonged king Tf mean? I don't understand these abbreviations. Can you explain this? I never mentioned the name Elvis in my comment, why did you? What are you some kind of Elvis fan?
🖤 💋 I am so obsessed with this era and the Kennedys and so am I, I feel like drinking wine, smoking a cigarette, getting a older man, wearing pearls and gloves and just dancing in my living room, love that style! (For the idiots in the comments, it’s just a comment expressing how the music can make one feel. Although I feel like it I’m never going to smoke 🚭)
Это круто для наших времён,я в полном экстазе,это не передать словами.Я Русский Человек и я обожаю Литтла Ричарда - Перевод на английский - This is great for our times, I am in total ecstasy, it's not words. I am Russian and I adore the Little Richard-English
My big brother introduced me to Little Richard and Chuck Berry back in the the 50s when they were first being played on WCIN in Cincinnati. I instantly became a big fan of both musicians and owe my love of rock and roll to them. They are still tops in my book (and so is my big brother!). Gone but never forgotten.
@@209thebizz and yet when you google the definitive king, Elvis is always the first response... I obviously understand Chuck’s greatness but let’s not turn this into a competition
Фильм хищник вспомнил Даже не подозревал что песня спета еще 1956 Без фонограммы даже без микрофона Это все тренировки голосовых связок Литл Ричард невероятно крут Вот бы рок н ролл возродился снова и музыка пришла б к порядку
My mom loved Little Richard and so did my brother an I when we were growing up in the 50s. His band was awesome and I loved his voice and showmanship. The music today doesn't even compare to what we had back then.
Predator movie... Arnold Schwarzenegger... My childhood... Oh, great Devil, please bring my childhood back! Please, bring it back!!!! And you can take my soul after my death...
+Zevik This stuff will make you a god damned sexual Tyrannosaurus, just like me !!! (Today's action movies lack that sort of humor and take themselves way too seriously.)
I'll tell ya, I love this fucking movie to pieces, but your soul is doomed my illuminati friend! Selling your soul is no joke, and I hope for your sake it was just a fucking joke! That kinda thing happens all the time in Hollywoood cause Satan is VERT real!
I don't think anyone else can sing with this sort of power and make it sound natural. He was the first and influenced the best Gillan Macca and well all the rest.
This is why rock has died.. rock n roll was always about getting the party started. Somewhere along the line having a good time and rock n roll parted ways
Yeah, well, whites were the only ones listening to Little Richard's kind of music. As well as the music of Chuck Berry. And who will deny that Jimmi Hendrix was playing music that whites listened to. Those guys were blacks playing rock-n-roll. Not the blacks playing the R&B and blues to black audiences. People like Bessie Smith, T-Bone Walker, Arthur Big Boy Crudup or Big Joe turner. Big difference in music genre there. So your snide "Jim Crow" remark is a un-called for. Especially since Jim Crow refers to segregation. Little Richard knew who his audience was and he played to them, willingly.
Yeah well, it still looks strange in the video. An all black band playing to an all white audience. I don't think that reflected the reality of Little Richard' general audiences. I believe it was done for effect.
digidgetnation Little Richard (Richard Penniman) was one of the first black artists to attract white audiences dude. As hard as that may be for you to accept with your apparent deep seated generalizations that everything must have been 'always' black or white and no in between. (Just keep feeding into that Liberal Hollywood agenda of sterotyping everything and everyone because well, if they say that's all there is to it then it must have been..no exceptions to the rule.) Fact is, everything was 'not' necessarily exactly the way you believe it it must have been...all the time. "Penniman attracted mixed-race audiences at a time when public places were divided into "white" and "colored" domains. H.B. Barnum later explained that Penniman "opened the door. He brought the races together!"
39thala In reality, they were really playing the same music, Rhythm and Blues. Rock and Roll was another name given to the more popular R&B songs of that era . call it commercialized R&B. They initially did not intend to play to an all white audience. They were just playing R&B music which was the popular music in the black community at that time. It still continues to this day..
Глядя на сей шедевр 60-летней давности, приходит чёткое осознание того, насколько никчемны и ничтожны в подавляющем большинстве своём современные бездари, возомнившие себя певцами и музыкантами.
