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Here's Little Richard

Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues

Here's Little Richard is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Fats Domino, Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters. Those roots explain a lot about how Here's Little Richard arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Otis Redding, James Brown, Richard Berry, Etta James and John Lennon, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 11 connections around Here's Little Richard, reaching back through Fats Domino and forward to Otis Redding. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Here's Little Richard is the debut studio album by the American musician Little Richard, released on March 4, 1957. Promoted as "six of Little Richard's hits and six brand new songs of hit calibre", the album compiles many of the A-sides and B-sides from Richard's hit singles including the Billboard top 40 entries "Tutti Frutti", "Long Tall Sally", "Slippin' and Slidin'", "Rip It Up" and "Jenny, Jenny" and the top 10 Rhythm and Blues Best-Sellers hits "Ready Teddy", "She's Got It" and "Miss Ann".

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Here's Little RichardFats DominoClyde McPhatterThe DriftersOtis ReddingJames BrownRichard BerryEtta JamesJohn LennonPaul McCartneyJohn FogertyThe Rolling Stones

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Here's Little Richard grew out of Fats Domino, Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters, went on to shape Otis Redding, James Brown, Richard Berry and Etta James. 11 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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