Hardbopjazz Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 Early rock performer Little Richard has died at the age of 87. Rest in peace thanks for the music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 Just saw. What a life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 "Early rock performer" doesn't begin to describe it. He was a force of nature, period. RIP, to one of the foremost bedrocks of post WWII American Popular Music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcam_44 Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 (edited) I used to talk to him almost everyday about 10 years ago when I lived in Nashville. Sad to hear he passed. He was dealing with a lot. Actually I guess it was 13-14 years now. Wow Edited May 9, 2020 by jcam_44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave James Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 If you look at the history of rock & roll like a hotel, Little Richard had a suite on the first floor. It would be impossible to list all the musicians he influenced both here and across the pond. Music might very well have charted a different course without him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 RIP maestro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 (edited) Shut Up !!! Rest Easy One Of A Kind Edited May 9, 2020 by Soulstation1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 RIP. Hard to imagine today’s music sounding the same without his enormous influence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 Jerry Lee Lewis really is ( as one of his records says) The Last Man Standing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 RIP Little Richard! I saw him twice, in '71 and '72. The first time was fantastic. The second time was terrible. Oh, well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 R.I.P .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 Serious and respectful historical question: Wasn’t Richard one of the first (was he THE first?) truly “flamboyant” performer to reach a national audience to the degree he did? (I’m NOT trying to invoke any “no true Scotsman” logic/arguments over whether any predecessors were “flamboyant enough” to qualify - just were they anywhere near as popular/famous as early/earlier than Richard’s early prominence.) For instance, where does Liberace fit in the chronology here? - not that his and Richard’s brands of flamboyance were necessarily that (or even remotely) similar. David Bowie. Prince. I’m sure plenty of others since, and probably a number I’m forgetting pre-Prince owe a great debt to Richard’s trail-blazing influence. And aside from his musical import, I’d say he was certainly “culturally” important. Not only in retrospect, but certainly to any number of folks back in the day who might have wished for the freedom to exhibit the kind (and particular variety) of ‘chutzpah’ that Richard wore on his sleeve early on, and throughout his career. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 3 hours ago, medjuck said: Jerry Lee Lewis really is ( as one of his records says) The Last Man Standing. And who would have thought that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Rooster_Ties said: Serious and respectful historical question: Wasn’t Richard one of the first (was he THE first?) truly “flamboyant” performer to reach a national audience to the degree he did? (I’m NOT trying to invoke any “no true Scotsman” logic/arguments over whether any predecessors were “flamboyant enough” to qualify - just were they anywhere near as popular/famous as early/earlier than Richard’s early prominence.) . Rooster, Little Richard was said to have copied his look and his flamboyant style from Esquerita. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquerita Edited May 9, 2020 by GA Russell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milestones Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 This is the first I have ever heard of (much less heard) Esquerita. That sure sounds like a lot of influence on Little Richard. Shouldn't Esquerita get more credit in the development of rock 'n roll? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 some guy is arguing w/ christian mcbride on twitter about it and christian says "i'm QUITE familar with Esqurita, sir. However hew was not the king of Rock and Roll. Quite influential on Richard, but influencers are not the same as innovators." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 2 hours ago, Milestones said: This is the first I have ever heard of (much less heard) Esquerita. That sure sounds like a lot of influence on Little Richard. Shouldn't Esquerita get more credit in the development of rock 'n roll? More than he does, but not more that Little Richard, because what Christian McBride says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 S Q Rita never reached a national audience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 THREE tenor solos in a 2:40 B-Side, ALL of them mighty as ALL fuck! And still - LITTLE RICHARD!!!! ZERO tenor solos, and to what end? Esquerita deserves a brighter light, but he was not the the sun that Little Richard was. He just wasn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted May 10, 2020 Report Share Posted May 10, 2020 38 minutes ago, JSngry said: Esquerita deserves a brighter light, but he was not the the sun that Little Richard was. He just wasn't. This, and folks who don't get this...well, they just don't get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 10, 2020 Report Share Posted May 10, 2020 Also, not just a secular performer, please don't forget that. but... Too bad Roy Wood never produced a Little Richard record. God knows he made enough of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted May 10, 2020 Report Share Posted May 10, 2020 It's not hard to trace where he got his famous "Wooooo" high notes from. He admitted that he got it from Marion Williams, my fave Gospel singer. I saw her at SOB in NYC, and got her autograph at the end of the show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted May 10, 2020 Report Share Posted May 10, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said: S Q Rita never reached a national audience. He also never recorded until several years after Little Richard so we'll never know what he sounded like pre-Little Richard. 3 hours ago, JSngry said: THREE tenor solos in a 2:40 B-Side, ALL of them mighty as ALL fuck! And still - LITTLE RICHARD!!!! ZERO tenor solos, and to what end? Esquerita deserves a brighter light, but he was not the the sun that Little Richard was. He just wasn't. Notice that Little Richard has taken an authorship credit on his recording. And both recordings owe a lot to Lieber & Stoller's "Charlie Brown" as well as Danny and the Junior's "At the Hop". Edited May 10, 2020 by medjuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted May 10, 2020 Report Share Posted May 10, 2020 (edited) I admit it: I probably first heard Little Richard songs via Elvis-- maybe even Pat Boone. But in 1956 when I was 13, a friend got this record: and being a pedant even then, I noted that some guy named R. Penniman got writing credit on most of the songs-- all of which I loved. Seeing "The Girl Can't Help It" in Sydney Nova Scotia on New Year's Eve that year sealed the deal. Edited May 10, 2020 by medjuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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