Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Baby (Demo) - (with The Upsetters)
2. All Night Long (Demo) - (with The Upsetters)
3. She's My Star (Demo)
4. Lonesome and Blue
5. Wonderin'
6. All Night Long
7. Kansas City
8. Kansas City
9. Maybe I'm Right
10. Directly From My Heart
11. Baby
12. I'm Just a Lonely Guy (All Alone)
13. Tutti Frutti
14. Tutti Frutti
15. Slippin' and Slidin' (Peepin' & Hidin')
16. Slippin' and Slidin' (Peepin' & Hidin')
17. Slippin' and Slidin' (Peepin' & Hidin')
18. She's My Star
19. Chicken Little Baby
20. Miss Ann (Believin' 'N' Deceivin')
21. Baby
22. True Fine Mama
23. Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey
24. Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey
25. Long Tall Sally - (The Thing)
26. Long Tall Sally - (The Thing)
DISC 2:
1. Slippin' and Slidin'
2. Long Tall Sally (The Thing) (Unissued)
3. Miss Ann (Unissued)
4. Most I Can Offer (Just My Heart)
5. Oh Why?
6. Heeby-Jeebies Love
7. I Got It
8. Ready Teddy
9. Ready Teddy
10. Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey (Goin' Back to Birmingham)
11. Rip It Up
12. Rip It Up
13. Heeby-Jeebies (Slow Version Unissued)
14. Lucille
15. Heeby-Jeebies
16. Good Golly, Miss Molly (Fast Unissued)
17. Can't Believe You Wanna Leave
18. Shake a Hand
19. All Around the World
20. She's Got It
21. Hound Dog
DISC 3:
1. Jenny, Jenny
2. Good Golly Miss Molly
3. Baby Face
4. Girl Can't Help It, The
5. Girl Can't Help It
6. By the Light of the Silvery Moon
7. Send Me Some Lovin'
8. Commercials - (from "Royal Crown Hairdressings")
9. Ooh! My Soul
10. Keep a Knockin'
11. Keep a Knockin'
12. I'll Never Let You Go (Boo Hoo Hoo Hoo)
13. I'll Never Let You Go (Boo Hoo Hoo Hoo)
14. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
15. Ooh! My Soul
16. Ooh My Soul
17. Early One Morning
18. She Knows How to Rock
19. She Knows How to Rock
20. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On
21. Bama Lama Bama Loo
22. Poor Boy Paul
23. Annie Is Back
24. Annie Is Back
25. Miss Ann
26. Well Alright!
| Details | | Playing Time: | 178 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Alvin "Red" Tyler, Huey "Piano" Smith | | Distributor: | Fantasy (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
This Limited Edition box includes many rare photos and extensive liner notes, as well as alternate takes, false starts, session talk and unreleased material and the "master takes" of each track. The British label Ace has released a 6 CD version of this set with many more alternate takes, "...sometimes barely discernible from one another," according to the August ICE. The 2 companies have swapped some sets to cover special orders. Annotation on both sets are identical, including a discography by Ray Topping..
Personnel includes: Little Richard (vocals, piano); Danny Carmichael (vocals); Thomas Harwell (guitar); Lee Allen, Alvin Tyler (saxophone); Wilbert Smith (tenor saxophone); Huey "Piano" Smith, Luke "Fats" Gonder (piano); Jimmy Rice (bass); Earl Palmer, Charles Connor (drums).
Producer: Bumps Blackwell, Art Rupe.
Compilation producer: Billy Vera.
Recorded between 1955 and 1964. Booklet includes essays by Rob Finnis and Rick Coleman. Each disc also includes liner notes by Ray Topping.
Digitally remastered by Bob Jones and Gordon Skene (A&M Mastering Studios).
Little Richard's stint at Specialty Records in the late 1950s produced not only the most important work of his career, but some of the most exuberant, hair-raising rock & roll ever recorded, and this three-CD box set collects the lot. The folks at Specialty have taken the middle ground between the completist tactic of including every outtake and fragment and overlapping with previous compilations, by including well-known masters alongside key alternative takes, many of which were never issued before.
The set is sequenced chronologically, and one hears Richard coming into his own with the soulful, wailing "All Night Long." By the middle of disc one, which includes incendiary versions of "Kansas City" and "Tutti Frutti," the listener may be ready to leap into an ecstatic frenzy. Richard's gospel-derived, raw-throated yelp sounds like God and the Devil shaking hands, and his highly percussive piano playing rattles the bones of nearly every tune. "Slippin' and Slidin'," "Long Tall Sally," and "Good Golly, Miss Molly" are here, among other slices of nirvana. Beautifully remastered, and featuring extensive liner notes (there's a full-sized book and further essays and information in the jewel-case booklets), this set is a winner.
Editorial Reviews
Goldmine Highly Recommended Plenty of value for veteran fans and new fans alike.
Rolling Stone 4.5 Stars - Excellent Plus
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