The Second Coming (Little Richard album)

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The Second Coming
The Second Coming cover
Studio album by Little Richard
Released September 1972
Recorded 27 March 1972 - 12 April 1972
Genre Rock 'n' Roll
Length 44:01
Label Reprise Records
Little Richard chronology
The King of Rock and Roll
(1971)		 The Second Coming
(1972)		 Southern Child (1972)

The Second Coming was Little Richard's third album for Reprise Records, and saw him reunited with Robert "Bumps" Blackwell from his Specialty days, with them co-writing the majority of the album together. Unfortunately the album again failed to chart.

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[edit] History

Little Richard's profile was high during this period, with works including a track (Miss Ann) on the album To Bonnie from Delaney and two tracks on the soundtrack to $ (film). However, his own albums weren't selling, and a fourth and final album for Reprise - Southern Child - was dropped from release. The tracks to all of Richard's Reprise sessions, including the Southern Child album, were finally released on CD in 2005 by Rhino Records.

Richard recalled: "I left Reprise because I felt that the producers didn't have me at heart. The Rill Thing was a good album. All the Reprise albums were, but they didn't push them. So I left them. It wasn't mutual. I went to Reprise because I felt the company could do something. [...] I think the producers and people who worked there thought I wasn't their main singer." [1] (page 167).


[edit] Track listing

  1. "Mockinbird Sally" - 3:41
  2. "Second Line" – 4:50
  3. "It Ain't What You Do, It's the Way How You Do It" – 2:45
  4. "The Saints" – 5:03
  5. "Nuki Suki" – 5:32
  6. "Rockin' Rockin' Boogie" – 5:28
  7. "Prophet Of Peace" – 3:19
  8. "Thomasine" – 3:11
  9. "Sanctified, Satisfied Toe-Tapper" – 7:12


[edit] Personnel


[edit] Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1972 Billboard Pop Albums Did not chart

[edit] References

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