COLUMBUS DIY

I have a lot of little richard records, and this is one of his comeback records. The cover on this specimen is quite nice, a 12 or 13 color aura is radiating off of a b/w photo of LR's larger-than-life-sized face (L-T-L-S-ed in that it is both unimaginably beautiful and its size being 13" top to bottom (not including beautiful long black hair.)) The layout is readable as far as liner notes go, the highlight being chris albertsen's closing statement that "Little Richard is back and he's never been lovelier." Also on the inside is this really amazing set of photos of LR shrieking in profile with a really tiny version of him bent over and alternating between reaching for the ground and putting his arms behind his back. i think the first LP is a faked live record probably recorded sometime in 1967 or in early 1970 (though it could date back as far as 1964.) It contains a lot of LR classics, on this stuff the horns section is nowhere near as raunchy as I want it and the guitar and bass are mixed kind of wimpy. In between songs on the first LP there is some really silky lounge music behind his fierce stage banter. He describes himself as the "best looking man in show business" several times. He says mysteriously after playing through good golly miss molly that it's "an old one and good one and tonight its still new." He also claims his music fixes blindness and paralysis and he is introduced as the king of rock and roll. Some of the "WOOOOOOH"s on Jenny, Jenny are quite memorable in that they are so tonally pure that they are comparable only to the noise of an orgasming whale or laser warfare. The second LP is mostly songs I wasn't familiar with from sesame street or television adds. I think its good but its a little too Motown instead of Sun for me to get really into it. Overall this album is a little too slow and soulful and is unbalanced by the overpowering live stuff.