Little Richard – Here's Little Richard

More than six decades later, dropping the needle on Tutti Frutti or Long Tall Sally still hits with the force of an unhinged freight train. Little Richard did not just sing early rock and roll; he battered his piano into submission and screamed with a feral, joyous abandonment that terrified 1950s authority figures. Supported by Bumps Blackwell's blazing New Orleans rhythm section and Lee Allen's honking tenor sax, this 1957 debut bursts out of the speakers with pure, undistilled kinetic ecstasy.