Here's Little Richard

Here's Little Richard
Studio album by
Little Richard
ReleasedMarch 4, 1957
RecordedSeptember 14, 1955 – October 15, 1956
StudioJ & M Studio (New Orleans); Radio Recorders and Master Recorders (Los Angeles)
Genre
Length28:30
LabelSpecialty
ProducerBumps Blackwell
Little Richard chronology
Here's Little Richard
(1957) 		Little Richard
(1958)
Singles from Here's Little Richard
  1. "Tutti Frutti"
    Released: October 1955
  2. "Long Tall Sally/Slippin' and Slidin'"
    Released: March 1956
  3. "Rip It Up / Ready Teddy"
    Released: June 1956
  4. "She's Got It"
    Released: October 1956
  5. "Jenny, Jenny/Miss Ann"
    Released: June 1957
  6. "True Fine Mama"
    Released: May 1958

Here's Little Richard is the debut album by American musician Little Richard, released on March 4, 1957.[1] Promoted as "six of Little Richard's hits and six brand new songs of hit calibre", the album compiles many of the A-sides and B-sides from Richard's hit singles including the Billboard top 40 entries "Tutti Frutti", "Long Tall Sally", "Slippin' and Slidin'", "Rip It Up" and "Jenny, Jenny" and the top 10 Rhythm and Blues Best-Sellers hits "Ready Teddy", "She's Got It" and "Miss Ann".[2]

The album's twelve tracks were produced by Robert "Bumps" Blackwell and recorded in New Orleans and Los Angeles in a highly collaborative process. Several of the songs included have been characterised as innovative and important in the development of rock and roll. Here's Little Richard was Richard's highest charting album, peaking at 13 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. In the years since its release, the album has been included in several lists of the greatest albums of all time including those by Rolling Stone and Time.

  1. ^ Sexton, Paul (2020-03-04). "'Here's Little Richard': The Georgia Peach In All His 1957 Glory | uDiscover". uDiscover Music. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  2. ^ "Little Richard is Tops" (PDF). Billboard. 23 March 1957. p. 50. Retrieved 16 November 2021.