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{{Infobox Album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
{{Infobox album
| Name = Southern Child
| Type = Studio Album
| name = Southern Child
| Artist = [[Little Richard]]
| type = studio
| Cover = Southernchild.jpg
| artist = [[Little Richard]]
| cover = Southernchild.jpg
| Released = January 2005
| Recorded = April - May 1972
| alt =
| Genre = [[Country and Western]]
| released = January 2005
| Length =
| recorded = April – May 1972
| Label = [[Reprise Records]]
| venue =
| studio =
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| Producer = [[Robert "Bumps" Blackwell]]
| genre = [[Country music|Country]], [[R&B]]
| Last album = ''[[The Second Coming (Little Richard album)|The Second Coming]]''<br>(1972)
| length =
| This album = ''Southern Child''<br>(Unreleased, 1972)
| label = [[Reprise Records|Reprise]]
| Next album = ''[[Friends from the Beginning - Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix]]''<br>(1972)
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| producer = [[Robert "Bumps" Blackwell]]

| prev_title =
| prev_year =
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'''''Southern Child''''' was [[Little Richard]]'s fourth and final album for [[Reprise Records]], due to be released in 1972. However, for unconfirmed reasons the album was shelved, and the tracks comprising the album were finally released in 2005 from [[Rhino Records]] in their ''Complete Reprise Recordings'' collection.
'''''Southern Child''''' is an album by [[Little Richard]], scheduled to be released in 1972 as his third album for [[Reprise Records]]. It was going to be [[Reprise]] RS 2097. For unconfirmed reasons the album was shelved in favour of ''[[The Second Coming (Little Richard album)|The Second Coming]]'', released in October. The tracks comprising the album were released in 2005 from [[Rhino Records]] as part of their ''Complete Reprise Recordings'' collection.<ref name="allmusic1">{{cite web |last1=Erlewine |first1=Stephen Thomas |title=King of Rock & Roll: The Complete Reprise Recordings Review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/king-of-rock-roll-the-complete-reprise-recordings-mw0001006468 |website=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[RhythmOne]] |access-date=31 July 2022}}</ref> A stand-alone version was released in December 2020.<ref name="allmusic2">{{cite web |last1=Erlewine |first1=Stephen Thomas |title=Southern Child Review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/southern-child-mw0003442160 |website=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[RhythmOne]] |access-date=31 July 2022}}</ref>


==History==
==History==
The sleeves notes for the ''Complete Reprise Recordings'' had it that: ''Cut at more or less the same time and in the same place as the ''Second Coming'' material, ten further songs were mixed, sequenced, assembled onto master reels, and delivered to Reprise. Having decided on the title ''Southern Child'', the label even had the album art photographed: 'It was me milking a cow that they brought into the backyard of my home,' recalls Richard. But that was as far as it went. For reasons that remain hazy, Southern Child was never released... until now, more than 32 years after it was recorded.'' <ref>Tom Vickers, The Complete Reprise Recordings Liner Notes, c. Warner Bros. Records, 2004.</ref>
The sleeve notes for the ''Complete Reprise Recordings'' had it that: "Cut at more or less the same time and in the same place as the ''Second Coming'' material, ten further songs were mixed, sequenced, assembled onto master reels, and delivered to Reprise. Having decided on the title ''Southern Child'', the label even had the album art photographed: 'It was me milking a cow that they brought into the backyard of my home,' recalls Richard. But that was as far as it went. For reasons that remain hazy, Southern Child was never released... until now, more than 32 years after it was recorded".<ref>Tom Vickers, ''The Complete Reprise Recordings'' liner notes, c. Warner Bros. Records, 2004.</ref>


An eleventh track recorded at the same sessions but not selected for the album (Though released with ''The Complete Reprise Recordings'') was a 4:11m instrumental, ''Sneak The Freak''.
An eleventh track recorded at the same sessions but not selected for the album (though released with ''The Complete Reprise Recordings'') was a 4:11m instrumental, "Sneak the Freak”, which is anomalous with its ‘50s pianistics and saxophone playing - also contains a distinct fluff by the rhythm guitarist.

Many of the tracks were copyrighted before the release of ''The Second Coming''. Richard performed "Burning Up with Love" on ''[[The Merv Griffin Show]]'' before the release of ''The Second Coming''; he also mentioned his "new" album, "The Southern Child", on the show.


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
# "California (I'm Comin')" - (Randy Ostin/Richard Penniman/Keith Winslow) 3:16
All tracks composed by Richard Penniman; except where noted.
# "California (I'm Comin')" (Randy Ostin, Richard Penniman, Keith Winslow) – 3:16
# "If You Pick Her Too Hard (She Comes Out Of Tune)" – (Richard Penniman) 3:51
# "Burning Up With Love" – (Richard Penniman) 3:20
# "If You Pick Her Too Hard (She Comes Out of Tune)" (Richard Penniman; another source credits Michael Deasy) – 3:51
# "Ain't No Tellin'" – (Randy Ostin/Richard Penniman/Keith Winslow) 5:54
# "Burning Up with Love" (Richard Penniman; another source credits Michael Deasy ) - 3:20
# "Ain't No Tellin'" (Randy Ostin, Richard Penniman, Keith Winslow) – 5:54
# "Last Year's Race Horse (Can't Run In This Year's Race)" – (Richard Penniman) 4:14
# "Last Year's Race Horse (Can't Run in This Year's Race)" – 4:14
# "Southern Child" – (Richard Penniman) 2:56
# "In The Name" – (Richard Penniman) 2:57
# "Southern Child" – 2:56
# "Over Yonder" – (Richard Penniman) 3:54
# "In the Name" – 2:57
# "Over Yonder" – 3:54
# "I Git A Little Lonely" – (Richard Penniman) 1:43
# "I Git a Little Lonely" – 1:43
# "Puppy Dog Song" - (Richard Penniman/Chuck Raney) 8:40
# "Puppy Dog Song" (Richard Penniman, [[Chuck Rainey]]) – 8:40


==Personnel==
==Personnel==
*Little Richard – [[Singing|vocals]], [[piano]]
*Little Richard – vocals, piano (inaudible except on “California (I’m Coming)” and “The Puppy Dog Song”)
*[[Lee Allen (musician)|Lee Allen]] - [[tenor sax|tenor saxophone]]
*[[Lee Allen (musician)|Lee Allen]] – [[tenor sax]]ophone
*[[Jim Horn]] - [[sax]]
*[[Jim Horn]] – saxophone
*[[Sneaky Pete Kleinow]] - [[pedal steel guitar]]
*[[Sneaky Pete Kleinow]] – [[pedal steel guitar]]
*[[Earl Palmer]] - [[Drum kit|drums]]
*[[Earl Palmer]] – drums
*[[Mike Deasy|Michael Deasy]] – slide guitar
*Bob Love - unknown instrument according to Reprise Records
*Bob Love – unknown instrument according to Reprise Records


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 07:04, 8 September 2024

Southern Child
Studio album by
Little Richard
ReleasedJanuary 2005
RecordedApril – May 1972
GenreCountry, R&B
LabelReprise
ProducerRobert "Bumps" Blackwell

Southern Child is an album by Little Richard, scheduled to be released in 1972 as his third album for Reprise Records. It was going to be Reprise RS 2097. For unconfirmed reasons the album was shelved in favour of The Second Coming, released in October. The tracks comprising the album were released in 2005 from Rhino Records as part of their Complete Reprise Recordings collection.[1] A stand-alone version was released in December 2020.[2]

History

[edit]

The sleeve notes for the Complete Reprise Recordings had it that: "Cut at more or less the same time and in the same place as the Second Coming material, ten further songs were mixed, sequenced, assembled onto master reels, and delivered to Reprise. Having decided on the title Southern Child, the label even had the album art photographed: 'It was me milking a cow that they brought into the backyard of my home,' recalls Richard. But that was as far as it went. For reasons that remain hazy, Southern Child was never released... until now, more than 32 years after it was recorded".[3]

An eleventh track recorded at the same sessions but not selected for the album (though released with The Complete Reprise Recordings) was a 4:11m instrumental, "Sneak the Freak”, which is anomalous with its ‘50s pianistics and saxophone playing - also contains a distinct fluff by the rhythm guitarist.

Many of the tracks were copyrighted before the release of The Second Coming. Richard performed "Burning Up with Love" on The Merv Griffin Show before the release of The Second Coming; he also mentioned his "new" album, "The Southern Child", on the show.

Track listing

[edit]

All tracks composed by Richard Penniman; except where noted.

  1. "California (I'm Comin')" (Randy Ostin, Richard Penniman, Keith Winslow) – 3:16
  2. "If You Pick Her Too Hard (She Comes Out of Tune)" (Richard Penniman; another source credits Michael Deasy) – 3:51
  3. "Burning Up with Love" (Richard Penniman; another source credits Michael Deasy ) - 3:20
  4. "Ain't No Tellin'" (Randy Ostin, Richard Penniman, Keith Winslow) – 5:54
  5. "Last Year's Race Horse (Can't Run in This Year's Race)" – 4:14
  6. "Southern Child" – 2:56
  7. "In the Name" – 2:57
  8. "Over Yonder" – 3:54
  9. "I Git a Little Lonely" – 1:43
  10. "Puppy Dog Song" (Richard Penniman, Chuck Rainey) – 8:40

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "King of Rock & Roll: The Complete Reprise Recordings Review". AllMusic. RhythmOne. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  2. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Southern Child Review". AllMusic. RhythmOne. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  3. ^ Tom Vickers, The Complete Reprise Recordings liner notes, c. Warner Bros. Records, 2004.
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