![]() ![]() Little Richard tipped Ava DuVernay $100 a week when she was a waitress. I Feel Pretty, 1996, from The Songs of West Side Story Rock Island Line (with FISHBONE), 1988, from FOLKWAYS – A VISION SHARED, A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly. Good Golly, Miss Molly – #4 RB, #10 pop in 1958 Jenny Jenny – #2 for two weeks RB, #10 pop in 1957/ Send Me Some Lovin’ – #3 for two weeks RB, #54 pop in 1957 Lucille -#1 for two weeks RB, #21 pop in 1957/ The Girl Can’t Help It – #7 RB, #49 pop in 1957 ![]() Rip It Up – #1 for two weeks RB, #17 pop in 1956/ Slippin’ and Slidin’ – #2 for two weeks RB, #33 pop in 1956 Long Tall Sally -#1 for eight weeks RB, #6 pop in 1956 (Boone only got to #8). Tutti-Fruitti – #2 for five weeks RB, #17 pop in 1956 (Boone got to #12) MUSICAL RHYME TIME $100: Completes the title of Little Richard’s 1958 song “Good Golly…” Listen LET’S GET SMALL $400: Dorrit, Engine that Could, rock & roll’s RichardĪnd there were several clues that referenced one particular song, as we’ve already seen: SINGERS NAME’S THE SAME $100: Early rockers Anthony, Richard & Eva POP QUIZ $1600: This “diminutive” musician has had Top 40 hits about girls named Lucille, Sally, Molly & Jenny ROLLING STONE’S 50 GREATEST ARTISTS $400: Good golly! The only artist to write his own tribute was this one, No. WAYNE MAN $600: Good golly, his real name is Richard Wayne Penniman SELF-PROMOTION $800: This musician seen here calls himself “The Originator” THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS $400: He left rock ‘n’ roll in 1957 to be ordained a Seventh-Day Adventist minister: “Womp-bomp-a-loom-op-a-womp-bomp-bomp! Tutti frutti, all rooty! Tutti frutti, all rooty!”ĬELEBRITY JEOPARDY! $100: I’m the architect of rock & roll & the originator–Good golly, Miss Molly! PREACHERS $400: Taking Sputnik passing overhead as a sign from heaven to give up rock ‘n’ roll, he joined the ministry He was the question to quite a few J answers: Little Richard, who was in the inaugural class in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, taught later music legends everything from soul to sex. WE BAND OF BROTHERS $800: Little Richard inducted this R&B vocal trio of brothers into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame J fame ![]() POP MUSIC $100: Little Richard has a street named for him in Macon in this stateĬOUNTRY SINGERS $300: When Mary Chapin Carpenter sang “Shut Up And” do this to “me” on 1994’s CMA Awards show, Little Richard compliedĬELEBRITY ASTROLOGY $100: Little Richard & Rich Little were both born under this sign of the archer ’50s FILM FACTS $400: Little Richard sang the title tune for this blonde bombshell’s 1956 comedy “The Girl Can’t Help It” Can you come up with the questions? Solutions below. I checked out some JEOPARDY! clues over the years. This is why I usually designate both charts, and also the country charts when discussing music. Certain music did not get as much play on the pop stations, which dominated the marketplace. Little Richard spoke about this here.Īnother blogger friend and I were discussing the value of the rhythm and blues charts. Specifically how Boone covered some of Richard’s hits in a most uninspired way. My basic point was that I had a great disdain for Pat Boone. Curiously, just a couple weeks ago, before it was announced that Little Richard had died of bone cancer, I was communicating with a fellow blogger. ![]()
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