#richardpenniman

[trascapades]

📽#ArtIsAWeapon "Little Richard: I Am Everything" is the absolute best title for this new documentary about the beautiful, Black, queer Rock'N'Roll pioneer! Bravo to director Lisa Cortés @misscortes for brilliantly weaving together this poignant story of the talented, bold, mesmerizing, conflicted and complex artist #LittleRichard (born #RichardPenniman). Shout out to the @schomburgcenter for hosting last night's screening and talk-back featuring Cortés, filmmaker #DeeRees, music scholar Jason King @jasonkingsays and media executive @emilwilbekin.

Y'all, THIS IS A MUST SEE!! Go to www.littlericharddocumentary.com for info about how and where to view.

Reposted from @littlericharddoc A-WOP-BOP-A-LOO-BOP! The untold story of the larger-than-life legend who changed music. Watch #LittleRichard: I Am Everything at special theatrical screenings on 4/11, and on digital 4/21. Get tickets now at link in bio.

@magnoliapics

#lisacortés #rocknroll #documentary #movies #music #BlackArtists #BlackMusic #BlackFilmmakers #BlackGirlFilmGeeks

[blackpinups]

Rest in peace legend, thank you for what you have done for music, paving the way, and blazing trails in rhinestones and Pancake 31. #littlerichard #legend #pioneer #rocknroll #restinpeace #foundingfatherofrocknroll #richardpenniman https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-OqufFtRl/?igshid=wn0bhjql1g29

[samythekay]

GOD IS DEAD. I was six years old, watching a cartoon called "the brave little toaster, then without a warning "Tutti Frutti" came on. This was my first real musical. Rock and Roll owes everything and much more to Little Richard. #LittleRichard #RichardPenniman #specialtyrecords #tuttifrutti #longtallsally #goodgollymissmolly #rockandroll #illustration #indianink #chinaink #pentelbrushpen https://www.instagram.com/p/CAAaRuhowVX/?igshid=1jk09lkg9szbv

[steveconte]

Just sayin’ … #richardpenniman #littlerichard #rocknroll (at Amsterdam, Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/Chj-5CSrUxq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[fashionartfilmalien]

Farewell to the groundbreaking Architect of Rock n Roll and Grandfather of Queer Pop Richard “Little Richard” Penniman 1932-2020 #rip #architectofrocknroll #grandfatherofqueerpop #queerartist #legend #musiclegend #littlerichard #richardpenniman https://www.instagram.com/p/CAD7t74jTLU/?igshid=1mt1xqb9p0pq7

[phildekem]

RIP Florian Schneider (Kraftwerk) & RIP IT UP Little Richard #florianschneider #kraftwerk #radioactivity #capitolrecords #littlerichard #richardpenniman #rocknroll #tuttifrutti #musiclegend #dessin #encredechine #indianink #portrait #illustration #illustagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CAA63eXBahY/?igshid=1iy3gcjr5vwe2

[mightyatomboy]

Esquerita recalled having inspired him, teaching him a thing or two backstage, but who inspired James Brown early stageshow, McCartney’s head-shaking "OOOoooo!" and Gerry Roslie’s Sonic "Bama Lama Loo"... ? (RIP Penniman ) Little Richard!!! 🎹🎙⭐️😢 📀💿🎶#littlerichard #richardpenniman #thegeorgiapeach #tuttifrutti #bamalamaloo #awopbopaloobopawopbamboom #thegirlcanthelpit #lucille #reddyteddy #functioninthejunction #poordog (à Macon, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAAqB3tKdtM/?igshid=pww0i2t7wsu2

[informationpalace]

Little Richard: Rock and Roll Legend Died at the Age of 87

Little Richard, best known as Little Richard, who mixed the black church's sacred yells with the profane blues sounds to make some of the world's first and most influential rock 'n' roll songs, died in Tullahoma, Tenn, Saturday morning. He was 87. His lawyer, Bill Sobel, has said bone cancer was the cause. Little Richard never invented rock 'n' roll. By the time he released his first single, "Tutti Frutti" — a raucous song about sex, his lyrics cleaned up but its sense was hard to miss — other musicians had already found a similar vein in a New Orleans recording studio in September 1955. Chuck Berry and Fats Domino had reached the top 10 of the rock, Bo Diddley had topped the rhythm and blues charts, and for a year Elvis Presley had made hits. But Little Richard, delving deeply into the wellsprings of gospel music and the blues, pounding the piano vigorously and shouting as if for his own life, lifted the energy level to many notches and produced something not quite like any music that had been heard before — something fresh, exciting and more than a little dangerous. As Richie Unterberger the rock historian put it, “He was crucial in upping the voltage from high-powered R&B into the similar, yet different, guise of rock ’n’ roll.”

The label for which he released his greatest hits, Art Rupe of Specialty Music, named Little Richard "dynamic, completely uninhibited, unpredictable, wild." "Tutti Frutti" rocked up the charts and was soon followed by "Long Tall Sally" and other music now known as classics. His live performances were so amazing. "He would just burst out from anywhere onto the stage and you could not hear anything but the audience's roar," record producer and arranger H.B. Barnum, who played a saxophone early on in his career with Richard Penniman, recalled Charles White's authorized biography in "The Life and Times of Little Richard" (1984). "He would be on stage, he would be off stage, he would be jumping and yelling, screaming, whipping the audience on." An Immense Impact Rock 'n' roll was in its early days an unabashed macho music, but Little Richard, who had performed in drag as a teenager, posed a very different image on stage: gaudily dressed, his hair piled up six inches high, his face aglow with cinematic makeup. In later years he was fond of suggesting that if Elvis were the king of rock 'n' roll, he was the queen. He described himself as homosexual, bisexual and "omnisexual" in different ways offstage. His success as an artist was incalculable. It could be seen and heard in James Brown's flamboyant showmanship, who idolized him (and used some of his musicians when Little Richard began a long hiatus from performing in 1957), and in Prince, whose ambisexual image owed him a great debt. Presley has captured songs from him. A octave-leaping exultation, the Beatles adopted his signature sound: "Woooo! "(Paul McCartney said the first song he ever performed in public was" Long Tall Sally, "which he later recorded with the Beatles.) In his yearbook for high school, Bob Dylan wrote that his dream was to" join Little Richard. The impact of Little Richard was very social as well.

Mr. White quoted him as saying, “I’ve always thought that rock ’n’ roll brought the races together.” “Especially being from the South, where you see the barriers, having all these people who we thought hated us showing all this love.” Mr. Barnum told Mr. White that when Little Richard sang, "they still had the audience segregated" at concerts in the South in those days, but that, “most times, before the end of the night, they would all be mixed together.” If uniting black and white audiences was Little Richard's point of pride, it was a source of concern for many, particularly in the South. The North Alabama White Citizens Council released a rock 'n' roll denunciation primarily because it put "people of both races together." And with several radio stations under pressure to keep black music off the air, Pat Boone's clean-up, toned-down version of "Tutti Frutti" was a bigger success than the original Little Richard. (He even had a "Long Tall Sally" hit) Still, it seemed like nothing could hinder Little Richard's rise to the top, until he himself stopped it. He was at the height of his fame when, in late September 1957, he left the United States to begin a tour of Australia. He was tired as he told the story, under constant pressure from the Internal Revenue Service and angry at the low rate of royalties he earned from Specialty. He had signed a deal, without anybody to inform him, which gave him half a cent for every record he sold. "Tutti Frutti" sold half a million copies but only netted $25,000 for him. One night in early October, he had an epiphany in front of 40,000 fans at an outdoor Sydney arena. "Russia sent that very first Sputnik off that night," he told Mr White, referring to the first satellite that had been sent into orbit. "It looked like the huge ball of fire was going straight over the stadium about two or three hundred feet above our heads. It made my mind shake. It just made my head shake. I got up from the piano, saying, "This is it. I am through. He had one last Top 10 hit: "Good Golly Miss Molly," recorded in 1956 but not released until the beginning of 1958. At the time he had left behind a rock 'n' roll.

He was an evangelist on the run. He went into Oakwood College (now Oakwood University) to prepare for the ministry in Huntsville, Ala., a Seventh-day Adventist church. He cut his hair, married and began gospel music recording. He will be torn between pulpit gravity and stage pull for the remainder of his life. “Although I sing rock ’n’ roll, God still loves me,” he said in 2009. “I’m a rock ’n’ roll singer, but I’m still a Christian.” In 1962, he was drawn back to the stage and he performed for wild acclaim in England, Germany and France over the next two years. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones were among his opening acts, and then at the beginning of their careers. He went on to tour the United States relentlessly, with a band that included Jimi Hendrix on guitar at one time. By the late 1960s, sold-out performances in Las Vegas and triumphant appearances at Atlantic City and Toronto rock festivals were sending out a clear message: Little Richard was back to stay. ‘I Lost My Reasoning’ Alcohol and cocaine began to drain his soul by his own account ("I lost my reasoning," he would later say), and in 1977 he turned from rock 'n' roll to God once again. He became a Bible salesman, started making worship songs again and vanished from the spotlight for the second time. He is not staying away forever. His biography was released in 1984 and marked his return to the public eye, and he started performing again. By now he was as much a musician as he was a personality. He played a prominent role as a record producer in the hit movie "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" by Paul Mazursky in 1986. He appeared on television on talk shows, variety, comedy, and awards shows. He worked at celebrity weddings, and performed at funerals for celebrities. In concert he could still uplift the roof. He stole the spotlight at a rock 'n' roll revival concert in London's Wembley Arena, in December 1992. "Today, I am 60," he told the crowd, "and I still look remarkable." He proceeded to look incredible — with the aid of wigs and heavy pancake makeup as he flew intermittently into the 21st century. But in the end, age took its tool. He walked onstage with the assistance of two canes by 2007. In 2012, he suddenly ended a show at Washington's Howard Theater, telling the audience, "I cannot breathe hard." A year later, he told Rolling Stone magazine that he was retiring. "In a sense I am done," he said. "There is nothing I feel like doing right now." Survivors include a friend, Danny Jones Penniman. Full survivor information was not immediately available.

Raised in Macon, Ga., on 5 Dec. 1932, Richard Wayne Penniman was the third of 12 children born to Charles and Leva Mae (Stewart) Penniman. His father was a brick mason on the road, selling moonshine. An uncle, a brother, and a grandfather were preachers, and as a child he attended churches of the Seventh-day Adventist, Baptist, and Holiness, and aspired to be an evangelist artist. An early influence was Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a gospel singer and guitarist, one of the first artists to blend a religious message with the intensity of R&B. Richard's ambition had taken a detour by the time he was at his teens. He left home and started performing in traveling medicine and minstrel shows, part of a dying-out 19th-century tradition. Billed as Little Richard by 1948—the name was a nod to his youth and not to his physical stature — he was a cross-dressing actor with a minstrel troupe named Sugarfoot Sam From Alabam that had been performing for decades. He recorded his first songs in 1951, while performing alongside strippers, comics and drag queens on Atlanta's Decatur Street strip. The songs, without distinct style, were generic R&B, and attracted almost no attention. He encountered two performers during this time whose look and sound alone would have a profound impact: Billy Wright and S.Q. Reeder, who has performed as Esquerita and recorded it. Both of them were professional pianists, glamorous dressers, flamboyant entertainers and as openly gay as it was possible in the 1950s to be in the South. Richard Penniman acknowledged his debt to Esquerita, who he said gave him some tips for playing the piano, and to Mr. Wright, whom he once called "the most fantastic entertainer I have ever seen." However much he borrowed from either man, the music or persona that emerged were his own. His break came when Mr. Rupe signed him to Specialty in 1955, and arranged for him to record with local New Orleans musicians. He began singing a raucous yet obscene song during a break at that session which Mr. Rupe thought could attract the burgeoning teenage record-buying audience. Mr. Rupe hired Dorothy LaBostrie, a New Orleans songwriter, to clean up the lyrics; the song became "Tutti Frutti"; and a rock 'n' roll star was born. By the time he finished playing, Little Richard was a recipient of lifetime achievement awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (he was inducted in the Hall's first year) and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2010, "Tutti Frutti" was added to the National Register of Congress Library. If Little Richard ever thought he had deserved all the honors he got, he would never admit it. "Many people call me the rock 'n' roll architect," he said one time. "I do not call that to myself, but I think it is true." Do not forget leaving your valuable comment on this piece of writing and sharing with your near and dear ones. To keep yourself up-to-date with Information Palace, put your email in the space given below and Subscribe. Furthermore, if you yearn to know about effect of virus on Frank Soo, view our construct, ‘Frank Soo: Google is celebrating England's forgotten footballer.’ Read the full article

[ljemodeling]

I can only imagine the level of energy that Little Richard will bring to the universe igniting creativity amongst the cosmos and making the ancestors rock out. May you Rest In Peace King. Thank you CREATING rock & roll as well as your contributions to soul and the overall black experience in America! #LittleRichard #RichardPenniman #RockandRoll #InventorofRockandRoll #GoodGollyMissMolly #LongTallSally #RipItUp #WholeLottaShakinGoinOn #RnB #Rhythmandblues #blackbeauty #blackpower #afroart #blacklove #afrocentricity #melanin #blackandbrown #blackisbeautiful #blackpeople #blackpride #blackloveisbeautiful #blackfist #naturalbeauty #blackgirlmagic #blacklivesmatter #iloveblackwomen #peaceandlove #postivevibes https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-VxZEpueq/?igshid=2abodwhqbaoc

[thecurvycritic]

BREAKING NEWS!!!!! Shortly upon moving to LA, ‪I caught a glimpse of Little Richard in the Hollywood Post as he proudly walked to the front of the line. I was like ‘really’ and he jokingly barked his signature phrase ‘shut up🤣’ I’m sure Richard Penniman -The Architect of RnR is with cutting up with Chuck Berry having a good ole time. He was colorful, groundbreaking and forever woven into the tapestry of the music industry. 😞 #RIP #LittleRichard‬ #architectofrockandroll #rockandroll #RnR #boogiewoogie #music #richardpenniman #legend #entertainment https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-LhXXndA0/?igshid=lnlmct7u54hy

[wiseblood]

Happy Birthday #RichardPenniman

[disquejp]

先日に投稿できなかったレコードを。ブラック・ロックンロール定番。 ・ ・ SOUNDTRACK / Cocktail 7INCH RECORD / VINYL:EX / SLEEVE:EX- 1988 / ELEKTRA / GERMANY https://youtu.be/LVIttmFAzek ・ ・ #青いジャケット週間 #littlerichard #tuttifrutti #dorothylabostrie #joelubin #otisblackwell #richardpenniman #robertblackwell #thebeachboys #kokomo #kagoshima #satsuma #share_kago #tenmonkan #disquejp #usedrecords #7inchvinyl #recordshop #analogrecord #7インチ #レコード屋 #中古レコード #鹿児島 #天文館 #黑膠唱片 (GADGET) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0vk-PMHduK/?igshid=xqxfqlz70sd9

[steveconte]

It breaks my heart to announce this - R.I.P. Little Richard, Rock & Roll Pioneer Dies at 87. I once rode the elevator w/ him @ the Riot House in Hollywood and he was the sweetest man. #littlerichard #richardpenniman#legend #originator #architect #rocknroll https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-NFAWHHRb/?igshid=1ci23i3akg54b

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EVERYONE I listened to/ was blown away by/ mimicked/ copied/ enjoyed/ loved... Listened to/ was blown away by/ mimicked/ copied/ enjoyed and LOVED LITTLE RICHARD❤️ #littlerichard #richardpenniman #thearchitect #theleader #thebest #theoneandonly #richardwaynepenniman (at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-uJDhgEB3/?igshid=1keaj6wrt7yt1

[thedonlemon]

the great #LittleRichard aka #richardpenniman by #markleckey at @momaps1 (at MoMA PS1)