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{{Infobox album
{{Infobox album
| name = Little Richard
| name = Little Richard
| type = Studio album
| type = studio
| artist = [[Little Richard]]
| artist = [[Little Richard]]
| cover = Little Richard 1958.jpg
| cover = Little Richard 1958.jpg
| alt =
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1958|07|21}}<ref name="cook">{{cite magazine |last1=Howard |first1=Cook |title=Distributor News |magazine=Billboard |date=21 July 1958 |page=6 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/50s/1958/Billboard%201958-07-21.pdf |access-date=18 November 2021}}</ref>
| released = Jul 1958
| recorded = November 29, 1955 – October 18, 1957
| recorded = November 29, 1955{{snd}}October 18, 1957
| venue =
| studio =
| studio =
| genre = [[Rock and roll]], [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]]
| genre = {{hlist|[[Rock and roll]]|[[R&B|rhythm and blues]]}}
| length = 26:48
| length = 26:48
| label = [[Specialty Records]]
| label = [[Specialty Records|Specialty]]
| producer = [[Robert Blackwell|Bumps Blackwell]]
| producer = [[Robert Blackwell|Bumps Blackwell]]
| prev_title = [[Here's Little Richard]]
| prev_title = [[Here's Little Richard]]
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| next_title = [[The Fabulous Little Richard]]
| next_title = [[The Fabulous Little Richard]]
| next_year = 1958
| next_year = 1958
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Little Richard
| type = studio
| single1 = [[She's_Got_It|Heeby-Jeebies]]
| single1date = Oct. 1956
| single2 = [[The Girl Can't Help It (song)|The Girl Can't Help It]]/All Around the World
| single2date = Dec. 1956
| single3 = [[Lucille (Little Richard song)|Lucille]]/[[Send Me Some Lovin']]
| single3date = Feb. 1957
| single4 = [[Keep A-Knockin']]
| single4date= Aug. 1957
| single5 = [[Good Golly, Miss Molly]]
| single5date = Jan. 1958
| single6 = [[Ooh! My Soul]]
| single6date = May 1958
| single7 = [[Baby Face (song)|Baby Face]]
| single7date = July 1958
| single8 = [[By the Light of the Silvery Moon (song)|By the Light of the Silvery Moon]]
| single8date = March 1959
}}

}}
}}


'''''Little Richard''''' (titled '''''Volume 2''''' in the UK) is the second album<ref name="liner">{{cite AV media notes| title = Little Richard| others= Little Richard| year = 1958| type = liner| publisher = [[Specialty Records|Specialty]]}}</ref> by American musician [[Little Richard]], released in July 1958, ten months after Richard announced a retirement from [[rock and roll]] to pursue a life in the [[minister (Christianity)|ministry]]. Like [[Here's Little Richard|his first album]], it largely contains previously released [[A-side and B-side|A-sides and B-sides]] including several which reached [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'''s]] [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|Rhythm & Blues]] and [[Hot 100]] charts.<ref>{{cite book| last = Whitburn| first = Joel| author-link = Joel Whitburn| year = 1988| section = Little Richard| title = Top R&B Singles 1942–1988| location = Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin| publisher = [[Record Research]]| isbn = 0-89820-068-7| page = 260}}</ref> Nine of its twelve tracks charted in the US including Richard's fourth million-seller "[[Lucille (Little Richard song)|Lucille]]", the [[rock and roll]] standard "[[Good Golly, Miss Molly]]" and "[[The Girl Can't Help It (song)|The Girl Can't Help It]]", the title song from the motion picture of the [[The Girl Can't Help It|same name]]. Among the previously unreleased tracks are two [[Tin Pan Alley]] songs recorded in Richard's frantic style.
'''''Little Richard''''' (released as '''''Volume 2''''' in the UK) was the [[eponymous]] second studio album by [[Little Richard]], released in 1958.
==Critical reviews==

{{Album reviews
{{Album reviews
|rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Deming">{{cite web| url = https://www.allmusic.com/album/little-richard-1958-mw0000860245| last = Deming| first = Mark| title = ''Little Richard''{{snd}}Review| website = [[AllMusic]]| accessdate = June 29, 2020}}</ref>
|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r65983|pure_url=yes}} link]
| rev2 = [[Sputnikmusic]]
| rev4 = Sputnikmusic
| rev2Score = {{rating|4.0|5}}<ref>{{cite web|last= g|first=manos|title=Review: CD Little Richard - Little Richard Album|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/65270/Little-Richard-Little-Richard/ |publisher=[[Sputnikmusic]] |date=8 December 2014 |accessdate=2015-01-01}}</ref>
| rev4Score = {{rating|4.0|5}}<ref>{{cite web|title=''Little Ricard''{{snd}}Review|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/65270/Little-Richard-Little-Richard/ |website=Sputnikmusic |date=December 8, 2014 |accessdate=January 1, 2015}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=428}}</ref>
}}
}}
Reviewing ''Little Richard'' upon its release, ''[[Billboard magazine|Billboard]]'' praised the album as "a worthy successor to ''Here's Little Richard''", commenting "the cat is at his frantic best"<ref name="billboard review">{{cite journal |title=Rhythm & Blues Albums |date=28 July 1957 |page=20 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/50s/1958/Billboard%201958-07-28.pdf |access-date=18 November 2021}}</ref> ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]'' described the album as "in typical explosive
Richard style".<ref name="cash box review">{{cite journal |title=LITTLE RICHARD|journal=Cash Box |date=26 July 1958 |page=40 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/50s/1958/CB-1958-07-26.pdf |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref>


Among retrospective reviews, [[AllMusic]]'s Mark Deming considered ''Little Richard'' "every bit as rockin' as his first album, if not more so... there isn't a single throwaway among the 12 tunes on deck".<ref name="Deming"/>
==Track listing==
==Track listing==
;Side one
;Side one
# "[[Keep A Knockin']]" ([[Little Richard|Richard Penniman]])
# "[[Keep A Knockin']]" (Richard Penniman)
# "[[By the Light of the Silvery Moon (song)|By the Light of the Silvery Moon]]" ([[Gus Edwards (songwriter)|Gus Edwards]], [[Edward Madden]])
# "[[By the Light of the Silvery Moon (song)|By the Light of the Silvery Moon]]" ([[Gus Edwards (vaudeville)|Gus Edwards]], [[Edward Madden (lyricist)|Edward Madden]])
# "[[Send Me Some Lovin']]" ([[John Marascalco]], [[Leo Price (songwriter)|Leo Price]])
# "[[Send Me Some Lovin']]" ([[John Marascalco]], Leo Price)
# "I'll Never Let You Go (Boo Hoo Hoo Hoo)" (Richard Penniman)
# "I'll Never Let You Go (Boo Hoo Hoo Hoo)" (Penniman)
# "Heeby-Jeebies" (Maybelle Jackson, John Marascalco)
# [[She's_Got_It|"Heeby-Jeebies"]] (Maybelle Jackson, Marascalco)
# "All Around the World" ([[Robert Blackwell]], [[McKinley Millet]])
# "All Around the World" ([[Robert Blackwell]], [[McKinley Millet]])


;Side two
;Side two
# "[[Good Golly, Miss Molly]]" (Robert Blackwell, John Marascalco)
# "[[Good Golly, Miss Molly]]" (Blackwell, Marascalco)
# "[[Baby Face (1926 song)|Baby Face]]" ([[Harry Akst]], [[Benny Davis]])
# "[[Baby Face (song)|Baby Face]]" ([[Harry Akst]], [[Benny Davis]])
# "[[Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!|Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey]]" (Richard Penniman)
# "[[Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!|Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey]]" (Penniman)
# "[[Ooh! My Soul]]" (Richard Penniman)
# "[[Ooh! My Soul]]" (Penniman)
# "[[The Girl Can't Help It (song)|The Girl Can't Help It]]" ([[Bobby Troup]])
# "[[The Girl Can't Help It (song)|The Girl Can't Help It]]" ([[Bobby Troup]])
# "[[Lucille (Little Richard song)|Lucille]]" (Al Collins, Richard Penniman)
# "[[Lucille (Little Richard song)|Lucille]]" (Al Collins, Penniman)


==Charts==
==Critical Response==
===Weekly===
The side two opening track "Good Golly Miss Molly" was listed as No.94 in Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.<ref name="good golly">https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407/little-richard-good-golly-miss-molly-20110526</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!align="left"|Year
!align="left"|Chart
!align="left"|Position
|-
|align="left"|1958
|align="left"|[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] Pop Albums
|align="left"|76
|}

===Singles===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!align="left"|Year
!align="left"|Single
!align="left"|Chart
!align="left"|Position
|-
|align="left"|1956
|align="left"|"Heeby-Jeebies"
|align="left"|Billboard Black Singles
|align="left"|7
|-
|align="left"|1956
|align="left"|"The Girl Can't Help It"
|align="left"|Billboard Black Singles
|align="left"|7
|-
|align="left"|1956
|align="left"|"The Girl Can't Help It"
|align="left"|Billboard Pop Singles
|align="left"|49
|-
|align="left"|1956
|align="left"|"All Around the World"
|align="left"|Billboard Black Singles
|align="left"|13
|-
|align="left"|1957
|align="left"|"Lucille"
|align="left"|Billboard Black Singles
|align="left"|1
|-
|align="left"|1957
|align="left"|"Lucille"
|align="left"|Billboard Pop Singles
|align="left"|21
|-
|align="left"|1957
|align="left"|"Send Me Some Lovin'"
|align="left"|Billboard Black Singles
|align="left"|3
|-
|align="left"|1957
|align="left"|"Send Me Some Lovin'"
|align="left"|Billboard Pop Singles
|align="left"|54
|-
|align="left"|1957
|align="left"|"Keep A-Knockin'"
|align="left"|Billboard Black Singles
|align="left"|2
|-
|align="left"|1957
|align="left"|"Keep A-Knockin'"
|align="left"|Billboard Pop Singles
|align="left"|8
|-
|align="left"|1958
|align="left"|"Good Golly, Miss Molly"
|align="left"|Billboard Black Singles
|align="left"|4
|-
|align="left"|1958
|align="left"|"Good Golly, Miss Molly"
|align="left"|Billboard Pop Singles
|align="left"|10
|-
|align="left"|1958
|align="left"|"Ooh! My Soul"
|align="left"|Billboard Black Singles
|align="left"|15
|-
|align="left"|1958
|align="left"|"Ooh! My Soul"
|align="left"|Billboard Pop Singles
|align="left"|35
|-
|align="left"|1958
|align="left"|"Baby Face"
|align="left"|Billboard Black Singles
|align="left"|21
|-
|align="left"|1958
|align="left"|"Baby Face"
|align="left"|Billboard Pop Singles
|align="left"|41
|}


==References==
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Latest revision as of 02:26, 30 December 2023

Little Richard
Studio album by
Little Richard
ReleasedJuly 21, 1958 (1958-07-21)[1]
RecordedNovember 29, 1955 – October 18, 1957
Genre
Length26:48
LabelSpecialty
ProducerBumps Blackwell
Little Richard chronology
Here's Little Richard
(1957) 		Little Richard
(1958) 		The Fabulous Little Richard
(1958)
Singles from Little Richard
  1. "Heeby-Jeebies"
    Released: Oct. 1956
  2. "The Girl Can't Help It/All Around the World"
    Released: Dec. 1956
  3. "Lucille/Send Me Some Lovin'"
    Released: Feb. 1957
  4. "Keep A-Knockin'"
    Released: Aug. 1957
  5. "Good Golly, Miss Molly"
    Released: Jan. 1958
  6. "Ooh! My Soul"
    Released: May 1958
  7. "Baby Face"
    Released: July 1958
  8. "By the Light of the Silvery Moon"
    Released: March 1959

Little Richard (titled Volume 2 in the UK) is the second album[2] by American musician Little Richard, released in July 1958, ten months after Richard announced a retirement from rock and roll to pursue a life in the ministry. Like his first album, it largely contains previously released A-sides and B-sides including several which reached Billboard's Rhythm & Blues and Hot 100 charts.[3] Nine of its twelve tracks charted in the US including Richard's fourth million-seller "Lucille", the rock and roll standard "Good Golly, Miss Molly" and "The Girl Can't Help It", the title song from the motion picture of the same name. Among the previously unreleased tracks are two Tin Pan Alley songs recorded in Richard's frantic style.

Critical reviews

[edit]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[7]
Sputnikmusic[5]

Reviewing Little Richard upon its release, Billboard praised the album as "a worthy successor to Here's Little Richard", commenting "the cat is at his frantic best"[8] Cash Box described the album as "in typical explosive Richard style".[9]

Among retrospective reviews, AllMusic's Mark Deming considered Little Richard "every bit as rockin' as his first album, if not more so... there isn't a single throwaway among the 12 tunes on deck".[4]

Track listing

[edit]
Side one
  1. "Keep A Knockin'" (Richard Penniman)
  2. "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" (Gus Edwards, Edward Madden)
  3. "Send Me Some Lovin'" (John Marascalco, Leo Price)
  4. "I'll Never Let You Go (Boo Hoo Hoo Hoo)" (Penniman)
  5. "Heeby-Jeebies" (Maybelle Jackson, Marascalco)
  6. "All Around the World" (Robert Blackwell, McKinley Millet)
Side two
  1. "Good Golly, Miss Molly" (Blackwell, Marascalco)
  2. "Baby Face" (Harry Akst, Benny Davis)
  3. "Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey" (Penniman)
  4. "Ooh! My Soul" (Penniman)
  5. "The Girl Can't Help It" (Bobby Troup)
  6. "Lucille" (Al Collins, Penniman)

Charts

[edit]

Weekly

[edit]
Year Chart Position
1958 Billboard Pop Albums 76

Singles

[edit]
Year Single Chart Position
1956 "Heeby-Jeebies" Billboard Black Singles 7
1956 "The Girl Can't Help It" Billboard Black Singles 7
1956 "The Girl Can't Help It" Billboard Pop Singles 49
1956 "All Around the World" Billboard Black Singles 13
1957 "Lucille" Billboard Black Singles 1
1957 "Lucille" Billboard Pop Singles 21
1957 "Send Me Some Lovin'" Billboard Black Singles 3
1957 "Send Me Some Lovin'" Billboard Pop Singles 54
1957 "Keep A-Knockin'" Billboard Black Singles 2
1957 "Keep A-Knockin'" Billboard Pop Singles 8
1958 "Good Golly, Miss Molly" Billboard Black Singles 4
1958 "Good Golly, Miss Molly" Billboard Pop Singles 10
1958 "Ooh! My Soul" Billboard Black Singles 15
1958 "Ooh! My Soul" Billboard Pop Singles 35
1958 "Baby Face" Billboard Black Singles 21
1958 "Baby Face" Billboard Pop Singles 41

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Howard, Cook (21 July 1958). "Distributor News" (PDF). Billboard. p. 6. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ Little Richard (liner). Little Richard. Specialty. 1958.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1988). "Little Richard". Top R&B Singles 1942–1988. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research. p. 260. ISBN 0-89820-068-7.
  4. ^ a b Deming, Mark. "Little Richard – Review". AllMusic. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
  5. ^ "Little Ricard – Review". Sputnikmusic. December 8, 2014. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
  6. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  7. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 428.
  8. ^ "Rhythm & Blues Albums" (PDF). 28 July 1957: 20. Retrieved 18 November 2021. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ "LITTLE RICHARD" (PDF). Cash Box: 40. 26 July 1958. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
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