Little Richard plays at 78!

Rock 'n' Roll and Soul don't come any better than this...

I don't know what you've got, but it's got me

Lucille

Ready Teddy

and somewhat tasteless, but tongue in cheek...Good Golly Miss Molly 

Long Tall Sally (Live on radio, Australia, 1957)

You wouldn't think that Little Richard (born December 5, 1932) "gave up" rock 'n' roll back in 1957, after he'd played Newcastle (New South Wales). According to Johnny O'Keefe, Little Richard "opened the window of the bus and threw his jewellery into the Hunter River." Then, in Melbourne, Little Richard was "very worried about the first sputnik that was going over on the night we opened...Richard says, 'That's it. The end of the world is coming. I'm going to die in America. I'm not going to sing any more'."

He quit show business to go back to religion. Interview extract

Joy, Joy, Joy

Before too long he was rocking again. Yesterday he was 78.

Chronia Polla!

This is the song I first had as a 78: Long Tall Sally (backed with Tutti Frutti).