I mean, this is the real deal here. It is sometimes easy to forget just how great these songs are when Little Richard became kind of a caricature of himself later in his life and career.

My wife and I enjoyed the hell out of this and we both were bopping along with the whole thing. Rock and Roll wouldn’t be the same without the crazy influential “whooing” here on this album.

To learn more about the 1001 Albums Project, I first wrote about it here.