Little Richard Interview with Bill Boggs

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Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known by the stage name Little
Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor,
considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the mid-
1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat[4][5]
and contributed significantly to the early development of soul music.[6][7] The
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website entry on Penniman states that:
He claims to be "the architect of rock and roll", and history would seem to bear
out Little Richard's boast. More than any other performer -- save, perhaps, Elvis
Presley, Little Richard blew the lid off the Fifties, laying the foundation for
rock and roll with his explosive music and charismatic persona. On record, he made
spine-tingling rock and roll. His frantically charged piano playing and raspy,
shouted vocals on such classics as "Tutti Frutti", "Long Tall Sally" and "Good
Golly, Miss Molly" defined the dynamic sound of rock and roll.[8]
Penniman began performing on stage and on the road in 1945, when he was in his
early teens.[3] He began his recording career on October 16, 1951[9] by imitating
the gospel-influenced style of late-1940s jump blues artist Billy Wright,[10] who
was a friend and also helped arrange his first sessions. He recorded for RCA
Records from 1951-52 and for Peacock Records beginning in 1953. Dissatisfied with
his lack of commercial success during this time, Penniman formed a new "hard-
driving" R&B road band in 1953. By early 1955, a demo tape of his music caught the
attention of Specialty Records president Art Rupe, who bought out his contract from
Peacock and arranged for him to record for Specialty in September 1955. Under the
guidance of Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, Penniman began recording in a style he had
been performing onstage for years,[11] featuring varied rhythm (derived from
everything from drum beats he would hear in his voice to the sounds of trains he
would hear thundering by him as a child), a heavy backbeat, funky saxophone
grooves, over-the-top gospel-style singing, moans, screams, and other emotive
inflections, accompanied by a combination of boogie-woogie and rhythm and blues
music.[3] This new music,[12][13] which included an original injection of funk into
the rock and roll beat,[5][8] inspired many of the greatest recording artists of
the twentieth century and beyond, including James Brown,[14] Elvis Presley,[15]
Otis Redding,[6] Bob Dylan,[16] Jimi Hendrix,[6][17] The Beatles,[18][19] Rolling
Stones,[20][21] Led Zeppelin,[22] Michael Jackson,[23] and generations of other
rhythm & blues, rock, soul, as well as funk and rap artists.[24][25][26][27]
On October 12, 1957, while at the height of stardom, Penniman abruptly quit rock
and roll music and became a born-again Christian.[28] He had charted seventeen
original hits in less than three years.[29] In January 1958, he enrolled in and
attended Bible college[30] to become a preacher and evangelist and began recording
and performing only gospel music for a number of years. He then moved back and
forth from rock and roll to the ministry, until he was able to reconcile the two
roles in later life.[31]
Penniman was among the first group of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
in 1986 and one of only four of those artists (along with Ray Charles, James Brown,
and Fats Domino) to also receive the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Pioneer Lifetime
Achievement Award. In 2003, Penniman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of
Fame.[32] In 2007, his 1955 original hit "Tutti Frutti" was voted Number 1 by an
eclectic panel of renowned recording artists on Mojo's The Top 100 Records That
Changed The World, hailing the recording as "the sound of the birth of rock and
roll."[33][34] In 2010, The United States of America's Library of Congress National
Recording Registry added the groundbreaking recording to its registry, claiming
that the hit, with its original "A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-lop-bam-boom!" a cappella
introduction, heralded a new era in music.[.- Wikipedia
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