Little Richard's Greatest Hits: Recorded Live!

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Little Richard's Greatest Hits - Recorded Live!
Live album by Little Richard
Released July 1967
Recorded 25 January 1967
Genre Rock and Roll
Length 35:51
Label Okeh
Producer Larry Williams
Professional reviews
Little Richard chronology
The Explosive Little Richard (1967) Greatest Hits: Recorded Live! (1967) The Rill Thing (1970)

Little Richard's Greatest Hits - Recorded Live! is the second and final album from Little Richard under the Okeh label. Although technically a live album, it was recorded in the CBS Studios at Hollywood. What's notable about the album is that the rerecordings of his old hits are perfunctory, often missing out the bridge and the tracks being expanded by Richard talking to the audience. As an example of this, the version of Tutti Frutti lasts just 1:14, the rest of the track speech. Like his first album for Okeh, it failed to chart.

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[edit] History

After the release of the album Richard himself noted ([1], page 130) "I was in the second year of the Okey (sic) contract and there was still no hit record. So I tore it up. The contract gave me no say in the material I recorded with them or in what was released. Larry Williams was the worst producer in the world. He wanted me to copy Motown and I was no Motown artist. [...] The Okeh stuff didn't sell at all because Okeh was an R'n'B label - a black label. I should have recorded on the Epic label, because I'm not primarily a black artist. It would have done a lot better."

After the recording sessions for this album, Richard recorded three more then unreleased tracks for Okeh on May 17 1967, and then recorded six tracks in New York for the Brunswick Records label the same year. The Brunswick tracks were released between December '67 - September '68, none of which were hits. Meanwhile, Little Richard saw out 1967 with an appearance in the film Catalina Caper.

From this point on Richard was out of the recording studios for three years, not returning until March 1970 with the Reprise Records label.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Lucille" - 2:30
  2. "The Girl Can't Help It" – 1:34
  3. "Tutti Frutti" – 1:29
  4. "Send Me Some Lovin'" – 2:48
  5. "Get Down With It" – 6:24
  6. "Long Tall Sally" – 1:43
  7. "True Fine Mama" – 3:04
  8. "Jenny, Jenny" – 1:55
  9. "Good Golly Miss Molly" – 2:37
  10. "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" – 3:03
  11. "Anyway You Want Me" – 2:54
  12. "You Gotta Feel It" – 4:22

[edit] Personnel

Drummer unknown; no records kept by Okeh

[edit] Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1967 Billboard Pop Albums Did not chart

[edit] References

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  1. ^ White, Charles. (2003). The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorised Biography. Omnibus Press.
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