#0014: Little Richard - Here's Little Richard [**]

At some point in the 50s, somebody figured out that if you sing the first couple of lines with minimal accompaniment, it disguises the fact you're playing a 12 bar blues _again_, making it sound like the progression comes in on chord IV.  Cases in point: Tutti Frutti, Long Tall Sally and every other track on this album.

It's a welcome break from all the Latin in the period but more than one track at a time of Mr Penniman's albeit splendid boogie piano chops is just dull.  Unfair?  Certainly.  I'm not arguing the merit of his inclusion in this list.  It's clearly influential but the issue here is whether I was entertained by it.  

And I wasn't.  Except for Tutti Frutti.  And even that gets old pretty quickly.