{"id":807270,"date":"2020-05-09T11:21:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T17:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=996745"},"modified":"2020-05-09T11:21:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T17:21:28","slug":"flashback-little-richard-plays-itsy-bitsy-spider-on-full-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-little-richard-plays-itsy-bitsy-spider-on-full-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Little Richard Plays \u2018Itsy Bitsy Spider\u2019 on \u2018Full House\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Little Richard<\/a>\u2019s reign as a Top 40 hitmaker may have been relatively brief, but thanks to his larger-than-life persona, love of the camera, and eagerness to perform anywhere and everywhere, he stayed in the spotlight decade after decade. That\u2019s one reason his death<\/a> is touching so many different generations today.<\/p>\n

When Martin<\/em> needed someone to play a goofy exterminator, Little Richard was there. When Baywatch<\/em> needed a star to come to the beach and play a song everyone knew, there he was pounding out \u201cGood Golly, Miss Molly\u201d near the surf. And when Full House<\/em> needed to bring in a rock icon to play at a rally for Uncle Joey when he ran for PTA president, guess who took their call?<\/p>\n

The Full House<\/em> episode in question is \u201cLittle Richard Too Late\u201d from Season Seven, which aired on May 10th, 1994. It begins with Uncle Jesse buying his family tickets to see Little Richard, but they\u2019re ruined when his twin sons Nicky and Alex cut them into little pieces for an art project.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, Little Richard happens to be the uncle of Michelle\u2019s friend Denise and he stops by the house that same day. The entire gang, including Kimmy Gibbler and Michelle\u2019s buddy Derek, follow him down to the basement where he plays \u201cItsy Bitsy Spider\u201d (a song he\u2019d recorded a few years earlier for a Disney benefit album<\/a>) on Jesse\u2019s keyboard. Check out the whole scene right here. Later in the show, he performs \u201cKeep A-Knockin’\u201d with Jesse and the Rippers at the Smash Club.<\/p>\n

Some old-time fans may have felt it was undignified for such a legend to appear on a show like Full House<\/em>, but for many kids who grew up in the Nineties, this was probably the first time they learned he even existed. The Beach Boys also jammed with the Tanners on several Full House<\/em> episodes, broadening their own audience in the process. The memories are probably quite fuzzy for Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, since they were so young at the time, but they got to jam with some of the greats.<\/p>\n

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Little Richard\u2019s reign as a Top 40 hitmaker may have been relatively brief, but thanks to his larger-than-life persona, love of the camera, and eagerness to perform anywhere and everywhere, he stayed in the spotlight decade after decade. That\u2019s one reason his death is touching so many different generations today. When Martin needed someone to […]<\/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-807270","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 14:21:18","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\/807270","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=807270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}