Season 31, Day 9 - "Don't Forget the Little People"
This season is inspired by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and today's quiz is inspired by Little Richard.
Little Richard
“The wildest and arguably the greatest and most influential of the '50s rock & roll singers, notoriously covered often by white artists.”
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums: Here’s Little Richard
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs: “Tutti Frutti”, “Long Tall Sally”, “Good Golly, Miss Molly”, “The Girl Can’t Help It”, “Keep a Knockin’”
Billboard #1 hits: none
Spotify top 5:
“Tutti Frutti” (“A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-lop-bam-boom!”)
“Long Tall Sally”
“Good Golly, Miss Molly”
“Lucille”
“Rip It Up”
Miscellaneous trivia:
called himself the “king,” “architect,” and “originator” of rock and roll
stopped performing secular music for five years and became an ordained Seventh-Day Adventist minister after he saw a sign in the sky that turned out to be Sputnik