As so often seems to happen, this morning what I find myself writing about is very different than the idea I started out with.
This morning’s idea was very simple: I was going to find a nice photo on Flickr. With the holidays that just happened, I was sure someone uploaded something interesting.
After pouring through what seemed like thousands of Flickr pics, something finally jumped out at my. However, it wasn’t at all what I expected.
bunky’s pickle has uploaded some interesting album covers to the photo sharing site. However, it was this pic of Little Richard and his horn section, that caught my eye.
Little Richard & band, back cover of Specialty 2103
Image Provided by: bunky’s pickle Source: Flickr
I did some research and found out that that album was released in July 1958. The front of the album looked like this:
Source: rateyourmusic.com
And it included the following songs:
Side 1
- Keep A Knockin’
- By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
- Send Me Some Lovin’
- I’ll Never Let You Go
- Heeby-Jeebies
- All Around The World
Side 2
- Good Golly Miss Molly
- Baby Face
- Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey
- Ooh! My Soul
- The Girl Can’t Help It
- Lucille
Looking through the list you’ll see a number of tunes that were released as singles. I’ve noted Keep A Knockin’ before, so this time let’s take a listen to Good Golly Miss Molly.
Like on Keep A Knockin’, the tenor solo on Good Golly was played by the legendary Lee Allen. According to John Laughter and Steve D. Marshall, Good Golly Miss Molly peaked at the #10 position on the Billboard Charts.¹
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“Like on Keep A Knockin’, the tenor solo on Good Golly was played by the legendary Lee Allen. According to John Laughter and Steve D. Marshall, Good Golly Miss Molly peaked at the #10 position on the Billboard Charts.”
Correction;
It was not Lee Allen on “Keep a Knockin'”. That is Grady Gaines. Lee Allen is playing on “Good Golly Miss Molly”.