| Product Code: | 683 405 TL |
| Artist: | Little Richard |
| Origin: | New Zealand |
| Label: | Fontana (1960s) |
| Format: | LP |
| Availability: | Enquire Now |
| Condition: |
Cover: VG+
Record: VG+
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| Genre: | Pop , Rock U |
Very smart clean vinyl with a crisp gloss cover.
Great Hits (or His Greatest His) is an album of Little Richard songs re-recorded in 1964 and first released by Vee-Jay Records in 1965. It features updated versions of twelve of his best-known songs originally recorded in the 1950s for Specialty Records.[1] Some of these re-recordings use different musical arrangements, including unusual syncopation, tambourine and jazz horns.
Little Richard recorded forty-six songs for Vee-Jay Records, but nearly half of them were unreleased when the company filed for bankruptcy in January 1966. Eventually, they were compiled onto albums, such as: Mr. Big (1971), Friends from the Beginning - Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix (1972), Rip It Up (1973) and Talkin' 'Bout Soul (1974).
Jimi Hendrix is known to have played guitar on some tracks and Eskew Reeder (aka Esquerita) is playing piano on some on the album. .[2][3]
