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

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