The Fabulous Little Richard

The Fabulous Little Richard
Studio album by
Little Richard
Released1958 (UK & Canada)
March 1959 (U.S.)
RecordedSeptember 13, 1955–October 18, 1957
GenreRock and roll
Length30:37
LabelSpecialty
ProducerBumps Blackwell
Little Richard chronology
Little Richard
(1958) 		The Fabulous Little Richard
(1958) 		Pray Along with Little Richard
(1960)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]

The Fabulous Little Richard was the third album from Little Richard, and the end of his rock and roll period. Released seventeen months after he had left the Specialty Records label, Richard had returned to religion and turned his back on the music that made him famous. Though he would briefly rescind that decision in 1962, and sporadically throughout his career, this album marked the end of his peak period. In order to make the record more accessible to listeners, over half of the tracks featured an overdubbed female backing group. The record was put together including out-takes and other leftover studio tracks, which saw Richard in a somewhat more mellow styling.[4]

It was voted number 483 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).[5]

  1. ^ AllMusic review
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0857125958.
  3. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 428.
  4. ^ Du Noyer, Paul (2003). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music (1st ed.). Fulham, London: Flame Tree Publishing. p. 16. ISBN 1-904041-96-5.
  5. ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (2006). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 171. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.