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Little Richard: The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $19.95
Manufacturer: Continuum
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This book is a concise, evocative, and thoroughly researched study of one of the great rock'n'roll pioneers. After "Tutti Frutti," Little Richard began garnering fans from both sides of the civil rights divide. He brought black and white youngsters together on the dance floor and even helped to transform race relations. In June, 2007, Little Richard's 1955 Specialty Records single, "Tutti Frutti" topped "Mojo" magazine's list of '100 Records That Changed the World'. But back in the early 1950s, nobody gave Little Richard a second glance. It was a time in America where the black and white worlds had co-existed separately for nearly two centuries. After "Tutti Frutti" Little Richard began garnering fans from both sides of the civil rights divide. He brought black and white youngsters together on the dance floor and even helped to transform race relations. "Little Richard: The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll" begins by grounding the reader in the fertile soil from which his music sprang. In Macon, Georgia, David Kirby interviews local characters, who knew Little Richard way back when, citing church and family as his true inspiration. Kirby sees Little Richard as a warrior, one fighting with skill and cunning to take his place among the greats. In the words of Keith Richards (on hearing "Tutti Frutti" for the first time), 'it was as though the world changed suddenly from monochrome to Technicolor'. Those sentiments have consistently been echoed by the music-listening world, and the time is ripe for a reassessment of Little Richard's genius and legacy.
Reviews
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-03-11
Summary: "HOORAY, WE CAN ALL DANCE TOGETHER"
I Have read hundreds of biographies on blues and rock and roll and this ranks among the best. This book brought back memories of my experiences in seeing Little Richard live on stage in 1966 at the Cinnamon Cinder in Long Beach Calif and 30 years later at the Long Beach Blues Festival in 1996.
I highly endorse this book alone for the insights into Little Richards' life but if you are a fan dating back to the birth of rock and roll or a younger person wanting to get a perspective on this period this book is an essential read. One of the many insights is the story of Little Richard getting the author to give Little Richards' aunt $88.00. This story was necessarily woven throughout the book many times to show the reader how much Little Richard felt that he had been ripped off by record companies and promoters and that Little Richard was going to be sure, before anyone gets a piece of Little Richard ,they are going to pay.
But an even more important reason for me highly endorsing this book is that from my reference as a white man born in the 1940s and married to a black woman is the great insights this book gives to how the music of Little Richard had a positive influence on race relations .in the 50s and beyond.
Hooray for the master of the 88's getting his Aunt $88.00 and making it easier for all of us to dance together.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-02-15
Summary: "A top pick for any autobiography or music history collection"
Rock'n'Roll was more than revolution of music. "Little Richard: The Birth of Rock'n'Roll" looks at Little Richard and the effects that his wild and energetic piano playing did for 1950s America. Richard's music was one of the many things that helped pushed race relations to the forefront of the American agenda, as young people of both races mixed freely in celebration of the music, as well as looking at the man himself and how a legendary performer gets his starts. "Little Richard" is a top pick for any autobiography or music history collection.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-01-25
Summary: "A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-lop-bam-boom!"
In the introduction to this new Little Richard biography, poet David Kirby lets us know right off what kind of book this is going to be."If this book were a car," he declares, "it'd be a hooptie -- an Oldsmobile 88, say."
Kirby proceeds to take us on a fast and bumpy (yet stylin') ride through the mad career of The Georgia Peach: Mr. Richard Wayne Penniman. Along the way we're treated to Kirby's witty, poetical musings on pop music, the 1950s, the "Old, Weird America", Gay Macon, and the occasional Chuck Berry zinger. In fact Kirby drives us right into the heart -- I mean the birth -- of Rock `n' Roll.
Strangely, it's not so much the biography of a man, but the biography of a song. "Tutti Frutti" was Richard's breakout 1955 single, and it must have horrified people when it first erupted from A.M. radios. Kirby asks: how exactly did a song like that come to be?
He begins with Richard's magical incantation: A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-lop-bam-boom, a phrase born in the dish pit of the Macon Greyhound Station, where young Richard used it as a way to curse out his boss. We see it evolve from there into a bar song about anal sex, and then (as Kirby claims) into the world's first Rock 'n' Roll song.
Try as he might, Kirby is never able to nail down an interview with The Queen of Rock `n' Roll himself. The closest he gets is a phone conversation with the man at the home of Willie Ruth Howard, Richard's cousin. Here, in a hilarious exchange, Little Richard tricks Kirby into giving Willie Ruth 88 dollars.
Little Richard: The Birth of Rock `n' Roll is a funny, strange, and totally fitting tribute to a long-overlooked genius. Was "Tutti Frutti" really the "first" Rock `n' Roll song, as Kirby insists? Sure, I'll buy that. And even if you disagree, I think you'll love this book anyway. Any musician, music-lover, or lover of weirdness should hop on in.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-01-23
Summary: "The "Biography" Little Richard Deserves..."
I read way too many rock 'n' roll biographies. I could be filling my head with interesting socio-political tomes (which I do read on occasion) or treatises on the latest thoughts on victims' rights or whathaveyou, but instead I read typically badly-written stories of people who may or may not be remembered in another ten years for wielding their cigarette-burned axes all over the world with fellow drug-addled losers... Okay, maybe not all of them are that bad, but you know what I mean.
Well, anyway, my pal Dick and his wife gave me a nice gift certificate to a book store and I bought this here book, Little Richard: The Birth of Rock 'N' Roll, by a real life professor of English, David Kirby. It's a small thing, suitably decorated in a mid-2oth century pink cover design depicting our own Richard Penniman looking his straightest best, more than likely belting out "Tutti Frutti" or one of his other hits. In fact, Kirby's main premise in this book is that that song is the most important in the history of rock, and based on his very erudite and quite humorous arguments, he may just be right. This book isn't exactly a biography, though, because Kirby doesn't present "just the facts, m'am" like most do--he gives you basic facts 'n' figures but he surrounds them with his very interesting anecdotes and observations of Macon, Georgia (where Richard was born), of the man's bi/gay persuasion, of his lifelong swingin' back 'n' forth from absolutely primordial rock 'n' roll screamer to good-boy churchgoer. Kirby, a prof at Florida State U., makes this such an entertaining and energizing read, you just gotta get out your 18 Greatest Hits CD (on Rhino) or any one of the other packages of Little Richard's awesome songs and start boogieing right there on the floor in front of God and everybody.
And he doesn't just pour on the fanboy kudos all over the place, either. Though Charles White's bio on LR might be the one to get if you want a by-the-book biography (it ain't a bad book either, I recall), David Kirby's is the one to better show just what made this effeminate madman possibly the craziest, most outrageous shouter the world has ever known.
This review also appears on my blog, [...]
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-01-21
Summary: "Overcoming Adversity"
Ok, this is as much a book about dodging the obstacles that life throws in front of you, as it is about the birth of rock 'n' roll or Little Richard. Kirby writes so that it can be enjoyed on all of these levels. Little Richard faced so much adversity in his early life; he's still ranting about the lack of respect he received,and rightly so. Living in the south throughout the 1940s and 1950s was a tumultuous time. He was a pioneer not only in music but also someone who tried to develop a persona that fans would remember. The hair, the make-up, the moustache, the clothes, were all considered outrageous (to some, they still are). Then on top of this, add the lyrics the many found objectionable. Richard pushed the limits and found nominal success. Today he would be a superstar; in the '50s he had to shout to be heard. And that's unfortunate for such a talent and creative soul. Kirby nails Little Richard not only as a performer but also as the man behind the persona. This is an honest account of survival.