Little Richard – Long Tall Sally

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Info: Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known by his stage name Little Richard, is an American pianist, singer and songwriter, whose innovative music and performance style had a pivotal impact on the shape of the sound and style of popular music and a number of its various genres. Penniman's distinctive, emotionally-charged vocalizations, charismatic showmanship combined with his fusion of boogie-woogie, New Orleans R&B and gospel music laid the foundation for rock and roll and was also cited to have influenced or inspired two rhythm and blues subgenres: soul and funk music. Penniman would go on to inspire and influence generations of performers in diverse genres from soul to funk and rock to rap. Penniman's reputation rests largely on a string of groundbreaking hit songs of the mid-1950s, such as "Tutti Frutti" (1955), "Long Tall Sally" (1956), "Keep A-Knockin'" (1957) and "Good Golly Miss Molly" (1958), which were generally characterized by playful lyrics underpinned with sexually suggestive connotations. Penniman was among the first group of artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and received the Pioneer Lifetime Achievement at the Rhythm and Blues Foundation award ceremony in 1994.