Mercury Records Collection: MG-20656: It's Real

MG-20656: It's Real - King Of The Gospel Singers / Little Richard

Label Type :	black Mercury type B
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MG 20656A MS1 FF
	SIDE-B	MG 20656B MS1 FF

Comments

Equivalent release: Mercury SR-60656 (stereo).

with original Mercury inner sleeve.

Inside The Groove

The great R&R singer Little Richard's famous Gospel recording.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

The famous story - Little Richard virtually vanished from the public eye for a few years in the late 1950s, then he returned to the business as a gospel singer in the early 1960s.

His public image as a great R&R singer might be too strong, and actually we cannot decide how this gospel singer Little Richard was. His gospel singing is attractive and interesting, but it's uncertain whether he was a great gospel singer or not...

Anyway, Little Richard sounds like nobody else - he always is himself.

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

6 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	21303 (PB6066/PS1828)	It's Real (H.L. Cox)	3:17
A-2	21302 (PB6065/PS1827)	Joy, Joy, Joy (Chas. Gabriel)	2:17
A-3	21232 (PB6057/PS1819)	Do You Care (Bill Dell)	2:48
A-4	21231 (PB6056/PS1818)	The Captain Calls For You (A. Spaulding & N. A. Miller)	2:19
A-5	21234 (PB6059/PS1821)	In Times Like These (Ruth Caye Jones)	3:26
A-6	21304 (PB6067/PS1829)	Do Lord, Remember Me (Richard Penniman & Quincy Jones)	2:33
SIDE-B
B-1	21300 (PB6063/PS1825)	Ride On King Jesus (Richard Penniman & Quincy Jones)	2:53
B-2	21301 (PB6064/PS1826)	(There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me) (Thomas A. Dorsey)	2:55
B-3	21233 (PB6058/PS1820)	He's Not Just A Soldier (William Pitt & Richard Penniman)	2:36
B-4	21236 (PB6061/PS1823)	My Desire (Thomas A. Dorsey)	3:00
B-5	21235 (PB6060/PS1822)	He's My Star (Richard Penniman)	3:22
B-6	21236 (PB6062/PS1824)	It Takes Everything To Serve The Lord (T. M. Kelly & Samuel Bond)	2:55

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

A-3, A-4, A-5, B-3, B-4, B-5, B-6:
Little Richard (vo),
Quincy Jones (arr, cond) and his Orchestra,
The Howard Roberts Singers (chorus group).
Recorded in New York City, maybe August 1961.

A-1, A-2, A-6, B-1, B-2:
Little Richard (vo),
Billy Byers Orchestra,
Quincy Jones (arr, cond).
Recorded in New York City on September 5, 1961.

Jackets

Front	Back

Labels

Side A	Side B

Inner Sleeve

Front	Back