Name: Right Now!
Brand: Little Richard

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0810075113761

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-04-26

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Warner Music Group

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Standard:20

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Artist

Little Richard

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Rockabilly / 50s Rock 'n' Roll

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Omnivore Recordings

Little Richard was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and recording artist. He was born on December 5, 1932 in Macon, Georgia, USA and passed away on May 9, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Known for his influential contributions to rock and roll music, Little Richard was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame as a performer in 1986. Additionally, he was honored with induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003.

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Newly restored and remastered, the updated artwork contains new liner notes from Bill Dahl.&nbsp; With this reissue,&nbsp;Right Now!&nbsp;can belatedly assume its proper place in the seminal recorded legacy of Little Richard. After his incredible run on Specialty Records in the late 1950s, Little Richard released records sporadically throughout the 1960s for a number of established, and not so established, labels. His signing to Warner Bros. in 1970 proved a comeback with three stellar releases for the label:&nbsp;The Rill Thing&nbsp;(1970),&nbsp;The King Of Rock And Roll&nbsp;(1971), and&nbsp;The Second Coming&nbsp;(1972). In 1973, he returned with a new single,” In The Name,” on Kent Records. Then, an album appeared on a Kent subsidiary, United Records: Right Now! Right Now!, its genesis, and recording are relatively mysterious. Per Richard’s autobiography, the set was cut in one night with Robert “Bumps” Blackwell in order to secure funds for an upcoming tour. Other than “In The Name” carrying a recording date of January, 1973, that’s all of the information we have. No songwriters are listed on the artwork, and while “Dock Of The Bay” and “Chains Of Love” looked (and are) familiar, the track “Chain Chain Chain” was in fact the Aretha Franklin classic “Chain Of Fools.” While Richard calls out musicians’ names in the recordings, who they actually are is speculation. What is known is that the album is a scorcher. Richard’s barrelhouse keyboards set the tracks jumping—running in length from under three to over eight minutes. There are soul ballads (“Don’t You Know I”), stompers (“Geraldine Jones”), and slow blues. Had Richard and Blackwell known that the release would come out as unadorned and poorly distributed as it did, they might have had reservations. But, out it came on a budget label, and was relegated to the cutout bins and never reissued until now. Restored and Remastered, Right Now! returns after 50 years!

Right Now!

Music GB

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