Have to admit that though I love rooting in rock history and listen to the originals I've never owned a Little Richard album before. It's shameful but explainable. His fifties recordings helped to pave way for rock as we know it and he's frequently mentioned as a forerunner and role model by rock musicians and genre fans. So through the years I've been trying to find his first two original US albums to a price I could afford, but no luck. Then I saw this in a cheap bin and realised the tracking in a way coincided with US - side one has the same tracking as side one from his first "Here's Little Richard" (Specialty SP-100) and side two same as side two on his second "Little Richard" (Specialty SP-2103). And as the front sleeve say - "These are Little Richard's original hit recordings". All tracks oozes fifties atmosphere and it's obvious no meddling has been done with mixes or audio. It all comes out loud and offensive with a pristine glow. So even if the US originals still refuse to show up I can at least get some of the magic through here and listen to the songs as they were meant to be heard from the beginning. Happy days! Issued as fake stereo with the same title in UK 1969 (Specialty SNTF 5000) and Spain (Discophon SC 2087). The Italian 1972, named "All Time Hits" also seems to be fake stereo, while the French 1972 2-LP "Originals" (Specialty 2C 154-93389/90) might be original mono, but I haven't heard it so I'm not sure. To my knowledge never issued like this on CD. First Swedish had label as shown here in a fully laminated cover with top opening. (SÖNÄ*) (CCÖ*)
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