Of bone cancer.

You thought it was covid.

he was great in "Trading Places" and "Coming to America" ~



in b 4 ~ ¿ we news channel now OPie ? ~

didn't he sing tuty fruity? Those buggy eyes, he was quite a character!

You mean "Tutti Frutti," Pat Boone's hit?

I watched a documentary focused on Little Richard. Richard Penniman (Little Richard) claimed Boone did not record Tutti Frutti first. Actually his words were Boone stole his hit.

Do you have information that could clarify that? All I really have is this wiki article stating Boone's version was a cover of Little Richard's song.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutti_Frutti_(song)

Wished I had Known LR Wrote:
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> Do you have information that could clarify that?
> All I really have is this wiki article stating
> Boone's version was a cover of Little Richard's
> song.


Here it is:

https://medium.com/politicalhaze/pat-boone-has-lived-his-life-voting-republican-stealing-black-songs-and-wearing-a-crew-cut-5fc1121bbf9

I lived through this time in the recording industry (some of my fellow students, or their relatives, were recording artists), and this article tells it like it was.

[When I was in ninth grade, my parents, and my maternal aunt and her husband, decided (for unknown reasons I have never understood) that I would have a boy/girl party in their rec room--something I did not seek and did not want, but they were totally committed to.

My aunt's husband and my father were charged (by their wives) with the task of obtaining the current most popular records for us to dance to. They went together (without me) to the record store, and brought back "all the latest hits"--and every single one of them was a white cover of a black artist, which meant that every single one of them sucked.

It was one of the most embarrassing experiences of my junior high life: it presented a totally false impression of ME....and even worse, the white bread covers drained all of the potential life out of the party. I still cringe at the memory.

The party was (to me) a disaster--and even to my peers, it was dreadful.

My parents and my aunt and her husband thought they were being cool.

Jeez, I am cringing at the memory right now.]

P.S. A shoutout to my "neighbors," the Penguins--"Earth Angel," "Hey Senorita", etc.--who came from the same South L.A. neighborhood I first lived in, and kudos to all of the REAL recording artists of that American musical era.



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Thank you for the clarification.

I meant it as a joke. The white cover records of r&b hits started more or less in 1951, with something like "Satchelmouth Baby" from 1946 being recast as "Pretty Eyed Baby" for the white charts.

The white pop labels that founded the RIAA in 1952 were Mercury Records, Capitol Records, RCA/Victor, Decca, and Columbia. The first-ish r&b record that got on the white pop charts was "Sixty Minute Man" by the Dominoes on Federal. I think Mitch Miller (of Sing A-Long with Mitch infamy) got the white covers really started when he had Johnnie Ray cover the Drifters' "Such A Night" and Frank Sinatra cover Johnny Hodges' r&b hit, "The Castle Rock" in 1952.

In effect, the white pop major labels used the r&b hits as publishing demos and ruthlessly imitated the same arrangements with their own stable of pop singers. It pretty much ended about April, 1956, when Boone's version of Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally" and the Fontane Sisters' version of Fat's Domino's "I'm In Love Again" stiffed relative to the original versions.

I'm ashamed (ha!): I have 41 Pat Boone albums. Never have I ever found a Pat Boone "record collector."

Anyone for Pat Boone's version of the Beatles' "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"?



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Next year he will be Mormon.

Elder Berry Wrote:
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> Next year he will be Mormon.

If Little Richard ever gets to Mormon heaven, it will NEVER be the same again.

Guaranteed.

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:)

Dave the Atheist Wrote:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=f
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Spot on!

Thank you, Dave.

:)

Little Richard in Mormon Heaven lol.

Like bringing a bag of Flamin' Hot Doritos to a wake.
It would disturb the somber reverence of lives largely unlived.

I am sure I can hear him now after the ninth droning stanza of Follow the Prophet saying, "that coo! yeah that coo!"

Please tell me there is a better heaven than that.

Long live Little Richard.