The Explosive Little Richard
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| Studio album by Little Richard | ||||
| Released | January 1967 | |||
| Recorded | 5 February 1966 - 15 September 1966 | |||
| Genre | Rock and roll, soul | |||
| Length | 29:49 | |||
| Label | Okeh | |||
| Producer | Larry Williams | |||
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The Explosive Little Richard is the first album from Little Richard under the Okeh label, produced by Little Richard's long-time friend Larry Williams and Johnny "Guitar" Watson and reflecting the then current sound of Soul and Motown. A mixture of cover versions and originals, it featured no tracks penned by Richard himself. Despite the new direction, it failed to chart.
Other personnel unknown; no records kept by Okeh. The 2004 album Get Down With It: The OKeh Sessions includes a booklet that also credits the following musicians: Eddie Fletcher – bass, Glen Willings – guitar.
CD reissues have seen the album attract positive reviews. Record Collector gave the album four stars, and cited it as quite possibly the best long player he ever made. In a review of the entire Okeh recordings, Rolling Stone stated that Richard's hair-raising vocals on the Motown staple "Money" effectively claim the song as his own. i-News reviewed the album for a 2016 vinyl release, giving it four stars and stating that Richard was still blessed with an immaculate voice and threw himself wholeheartedly some great contemporary sounding tracks.
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Richard's "I Don't Want To Discuss it" was not a hit for him but was duly noted later by Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Rhinoceros, and Rod Stewart. The song "Well" is better known as "Well Alright!", a Sam Cooke composition Richard had in the Specialty vaults at the time he cut the Okeh version (reported to feature Jimi Hendrix).
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