Sunday, May 10, 2020

'This Is Healin' Music!'

That jackhammering piano. Those WHOOO-OOOOOHHHs. I would say rest easy, Richard Wayne Penniman, but that's just not your style. Heaven just got a helluva lot more interesting.

Ooh! My Soul
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5 comments:

Rol said...

Without him, we might never have had Prince.

RIP.

May 10, 2020 at 4:22 PM
The Swede said...

The Specialty recordings of 1955-57 form a slim body of utterly essential work that has echoed down the years to influence everyone from Dylan to The Beatles, Hendrix, Prince and far, far beyond. A massively important figure has gone, leaving Jerry Lee as the last of the line.

May 11, 2020 at 4:29 AM
C said...

"Heaven just got a helluva lot more interesting" What a perfect tribute to the legendary man.

May 11, 2020 at 12:23 PM
Brian said...

Apt words, Rol.

Swede, Not to say there weren't other great songs in his canon, but if I came up with a top 10 for Little Richard, every one of them would all be from the Specialty years.

C, And that came from an agnostic!

May 11, 2020 at 9:14 PM
Kinorin Sama said...

This was great to readd

January 26, 2024 at 7:11 AM

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