Velociworld: The Girl Can't Help It

September 24, 2006

The Girl Can't Help It

I love Little Richard.

He is my androgynous niggah.

Plenty of people tell you they invented rock and roll. Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Haley. None so vociferously as Little Richard. But I think, of all of them, he was right. Tutti-Frutti. Dat my boy.

Little Richard kicked the fucking ass. Lookah him with the Fabs:

They owned the world then, they were healing cripples, they were having insane sex with hot groupies, they could do no wrong, but they just wanted to be in a pic with Lil.

When they wanted to change the Georgia flag, I suggested a quadrant flag: one corner Little Richard, one corner James Brown, one quarter Otis Redding, one quarter Ray Charles. Fucking sweet, I say. I was, of course, shot down.

But that's my affirmative action. And those are my home boys.

I love Little Richard.

A whap baba luah, a whap bam boom!

Posted by Velociman at September 24, 2006 6:12 PM

Comments

Have you seen the new Geiko commercials with him?
Hysterical.

Posted by: Maeve at September 24, 2006 11:08 PM

I wouldn't have that freak at my dinner table for all the gold in Velociman's heart... And that ain't sayin' much. I dig his tunage, don't get me wrong, but the boy is a freak. Straight up.

Posted by: RedNeck at September 25, 2006 9:03 PM

I had his first album, and I would play it just shy of number 10 on the old Motorola with the mondo power tube. It was one of the rare times I saw my father lose it. "JESUS CHRIST!!! What IS that SHIT?"

Much as I feel about rap today.

Posted by: Jim - PRS at September 26, 2006 8:40 AM

A whap bama luma indeed. Who else could take a song with a dopey ass lyric and turn it into something Seriously Fonky?

I mean it. Just for shits 'n' grins, picture Perry Como or Andy Williams singing:

Tutti frutti
All rooty
Tutti frutti
All rooty
Tutti frutti
All rooty
Tutti frutti
All rooty
Tutti frutti
All rooty
Tutti frutti
All rooty
A whap bama luma a whap bam boom

Posted by: Elisson at September 26, 2006 11:47 AM

Didn't Pat Boone butcher a couple of his songs? I never went over to white radio to find out. After I heard about that "Race Music" from a fellow shitbird who occupied dention hall with me, I never went back. I ain't goin' back either. To the radio, that is. I can't listen to NO kinda shit now NOHOW! Other peeps might have invented it, but this muthafucker ROCKED it!

Posted by: James Hooker-Nipple Whisperer at September 26, 2006 5:10 PM

I've had Little Richard on my mind since
seeing this : http://basilsblog.net/?p=2650

Posted by: adele at September 27, 2006 1:12 AM