{"id":807266,"date":"2020-05-09T09:27:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T15:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=996709"},"modified":"2020-05-09T09:27:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T15:27:40","slug":"flashback-little-richard-performs-a-blazing-long-tall-sally-in-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-little-richard-performs-a-blazing-long-tall-sally-in-1956\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Little Richard Performs a Blazing \u2018Long Tall Sally\u2019 in 1956"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As if there wasn\u2019t enough sorrow in the world right now, the news arrived this morning that Little Richard died from unknown causes.<\/a> The rock pioneer was 87. \u201cA lot of people call me the architect of rock and roll,\u201d he told Rolling Stone<\/em> in 2004.<\/a> \u201cI don\u2019t call myself that, but I believe it\u2019s true.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not hard to justify that claim. Starting with \u201cTutti Frutti\u201d in 1955, the flamboyant piano player unleashed a series of classic singles \u2013 including \u201cLong Tall Sally,\u201d \u201cLucille\u201d and \u201cGood Golly Miss Molly\u201d \u2013 that defined the genre and influenced countless artists that followed in his wake, including the the Beatles, Elton John, Prince and too many others to mention.<\/p>\n

Just a little over a year after he broke through to mainstream success, Little Richard<\/a> was invited to appear in the 1956 movie Don\u2019t Knock the Rock<\/em> alongside Bill Haley & His Comets, The Treniers, and Dave Appell and the Applejacks. Haley may have gotten top billing, but as you can see from these back-to-back performances of \u201cLong Tall Sally\u201d and \u201cTutti Frutti,\u201d Little Richard stole the show. Introducing him is DJ Alan Freed, who is widely credited with popularizing the term \u201crock and roll\u201d as a musical genre.<\/p>\n

Just one year after this performance, Little Richard stepped away from his career to attend the Alabama Bible school Oakwood College and devote his life to God. He recorded gospel music beginning with 1959\u2019s God Is Real,<\/em> though by the mid-1960s he returned to secular work and made a very comfortable living on the oldies circuit.<\/p>\n

Mobility issues slowed him down in recent years and he stopped appearing in public, but when Rolling Stone<\/em> spoke to him in 2017<\/a> after his longtime friend Fats Domino died, he was still in great spirits. \u201cGod has been good to me,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd every Saturday I\u2019m in church, every Saturday. I never miss a Saturday. Every Friday I open the Sabbath. I just feel wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As if there wasn\u2019t enough sorrow in the world right now, the news arrived this morning that Little Richard died from unknown causes. The rock pioneer was 87. \u201cA lot of people call me the architect of rock and roll,\u201d he told Rolling Stone in 2004. \u201cI don\u2019t call myself that, but I believe it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 15:39:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}