Vendor: Specialty Records
Type: CD
Price: 14.99

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Rip It Up: The Best Of Specialty Records brings together some of the most important tracks to be released on the notable Los Angeles record label. Founded in 1945 by Art Rupe, Specialty Records made a giant impact in the fields of gospel, rock n roll, and R&B. With legendary artists including Little Richard, Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke and Roy Milton – this completion features 18 tracks that helped to shape R&B as we know it.

Tracklist

1. LLOYD PRICE: Lawdy Miss Clawdy
2. LITTLE RICHARD: Long Tall Sally
3. ROY MILTON: R.M. Blues
4. SAM COOKE: I’ll Come Running Back to You
5. JOE LIGGINS: Pink Champagne
6. LITTLE RICHARD: Tutti Frutti
7. PERCY MAYFIELD: Please Send Me Someone to Love
8. ROY MILTON: Information Blues
9. LARRY WILLIAMS: Bony Moronie
10. LITTLE RICHARD: Lucille
11. JESSE & MARVIN: Dream Girl
12. JIMMY LIGGINS: Drunk
13. LLOYD PRICE: Ain’t It a Shame?
14. LARRY WILLIAMS: Short Fat Fannie
15. PERCY MAYFIELD: Lost Love (Baby, Please)
16. LLOYD PRICE: Oooh-Oooh-Oooh
17. ROY MILTON: Best Wishes
18. LITTLE RICHARD: Rip It Up

Features

• Brand new compilation featuring Specialty Records artists Little Richard, Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke, Roy Milton and more
• Extensive liner notes by Billy Vera
• Release is in conjunction with Specialty Records’ 75th anniversary

Vendor: Little Richard
Type: Vinyl
Price: 25.98

One of the original rock & roll greats, Little Richard merged the fire of gospel with New Orleans R&B, pounding the piano and wailing with gleeful abandon. While numerous other R&B greats of the early ’50s had been moving in a similar direction, none of them matched the sheer electricity of Richard’s vocals. With his bullet-speed deliveries, ecstatic trills, and the overjoyed force of personality in his singing, he was crucial in upping the voltage from high-powered R&B into the similar, yet different, guise of rock & roll.

This energetic collection of hits from his time at Specialty Records presents Little Richard at the top of his game, featuring favorites such as “Tutti Frutti”, “Good Golly, Miss Molly” and “The Girl Can’t Help It”.

Vendor: Little Richard
Type: CD
Price: 19.99

Little Richard’s 1957 debut launched the career of a foundational figure in music, and featured some of the artist’s best-loved hits, including “Long Tall Sally,” “Ready Teddy” and “Tutti-Frutti,” a song which many consider to mark the birth of rock ’n’ roll. This deluxe, 2-CD edition of Here’s Little Richard celebrates the album’s 60th anniversary, and includes a slew of demos, outtakes and previously unreleased tracks, as well as new liner notes by GRAMMY®-nominated writer Chris Morris.

Vendor: Little Richard
Type: Vinyl
Price: 99.99

Mono Box: The Complete Specialty and Vee-Jay Albums is a deluxe, 5-LP box set that celebrates one of the most influential entertainers in popular music history, Little Richard. The collection includes the entire output of studio albums that Little Richard had recorded for both the Specialty and Vee-Jay labels, spanning 1957–1965. The albums, each featuring original label and jacket art, have been meticulously remastered from analog tapes and are presented in their original mono mixes. Completing the collection is a 16-page booklet featuring new liner notes by journalist Bill Dahl, plus era-specific photos.

Vendor: Specialty Records
Type: Vinyl
Price: 22.99

Rip It Up: The Best Of Specialty Records brings together some of the most important tracks to be released on the notable Los Angeles record label. Founded in 1945 by Art Rupe, Specialty Records made a giant impact in the fields of gospel, rock n roll, and R&B. With legendary artists including Little Richard, Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke and Roy Milton – this completion features 18 tracks that helped to shape R&B as we know it.

Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: CD
Price: 14.99

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Much of Hooker's best-loved work was recorded for independent Chicago labels like Vee-Jay in the '50s and '60s, but the bluesman's long, prolific career began in the late '40s in Detroit. During that time, as chronicled on Graveyard Blues, Hooker refined the doomy, foot-stomping boogie style that would become his trademark. The Hooker of '49-'50 sounds less tormented, lacking the existential edge of his later recordings. Instead, there's a light-heartedness and almost peppy swing to these tunes.

Hooker's voice is a touch higher and less throaty, but his guitar is cutting, and he'd already mastered his patented boogie beat. Hooker achieved no small amount of success with his recordings from this era, including one of his most famous songs, "Boogie Chillen," heard here in an alternate version. Graveyard Blues offers a glimpse of an important, formative period in Hooker's career.

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Vendor: Little Richard
Type: Vinyl
Price: 25.98

Little Richard’s 1957 debut launched the career of a foundational figure in music, and featured some of the artist’s best-loved hits, including “Long Tall Sally,” “Ready Teddy” and “Tutti-Frutti,” a song which many consider to mark the birth of rock ’n’ roll. This debut album from Little Richard, newly re-issued on vinyl, was the highest charting album of his career, and it ranked #50 on Rolling Stone s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time. This is an essential album for any serious rock n roll collection.