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Great Gosh A'Mighty: Two More Little Richard Albums Expanded by Omnivore

September 17, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Little Richard The Second Coming

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This Friday, September 18, Omnivore will release two expanded editions from the one and only Little Richard.  But those reissues of The Rill Thing and The King of Rock and Roll aren't all the label has coming from the piano-pounding pioneer.  On October 23, Omnivore will continue mining Richard's Reprise discography with 1972's The Second Coming and jump ahead to 1986 for the Warner Bros. release Lifetime Friend, both in newly expanded and remastered form.

The Second Coming, Little Richard's third and final Reprise long-player, reunited him with Robert "Bumps" Blackwell from the Specialty Records days.  Bumps had been Richard's collaborator as co-writer and/or producer on such classics as "Long Tall Sally," "Ready Teddy," "Rip It Up," and "Good Golly, Miss Molly," and for The Second Coming, he brought along an A-team of 1950s session vets.  Recording at Los Angeles' Record Plant, they were joined by the cream of the '70s crop, too, including Mike Deasy, Jim Horn, Earl Palmer, "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow, Chuck Rainey, and Lee Allen.  Little Richard wrote or co-wrote most of the album.  But despite its lofty title, The Second Coming didn't restore him to the charts or yield a successful single.  Omnivore's reissue provides a chance to rediscover it with the addition of the single edit of "Mockingbird Sally" and three cuts from the soundtrack of director Richard Brooks' heist comedy $ (a.k.a. Dollars).  The Warren Beatty/Goldie Hawn starrer featured music by Quincy Jones, including two songs performed by Little Richard: "Money Is" and "Do It - To It."  Both songs are here, as well as the single edit of "Money Is."

Little Richard Lifetime Friend

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Following The Second Coming, Little Richard departed Reprise.  (A fourth album for the label, Southern Child, was recorded prior to The Second Coming and surfaced in 2005 as part of Rhino Handmade's The King of Rock and Roll: The Complete Reprise Recordings box set.)  He continued to sporadically record for labels including United, K-Tel, and Word Records in the 1970s.  In 1986, he returned to Reprise sister label Warner Bros. for Lifetime Friend.  The LP followed the publication of Richard's autobiography The Quasar of Rock and Roll.  Helmed by Stuart Colman, it was recorded in London with a top-tier band featuring Billy Preston, Travis Wammack of Muscle Shoals, Jesse Boyce, and James Stroud.  Richard wrote or co-wrote four of the tracks, opting to blend his signature rock-and-roll style with spiritual lyrics.  He even incorporated rap into the overall sound.

Billy Preston co-wrote the opening track, "Great Gosh A' Mighty," which Richard would also record for the soundtrack to Down and Out in Beverly Hills.  Wammack and Boyce also contributed to the songwriting on the ten-song LP.  After being featured in the film, "Great Gosh A' Mighty" would peak just outside of the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.  The album's "Operator" and "Somebody's Comin'" charted overseas on the U.K. Singles Chart.  This new reissue of Lifetime Friend has two bonus tracks: the single version and extended mix of "Operator."

Both remastered reissues boast booklets with new liner notes by Bill Dahl plus photos and memorabilia.  After Lifetime Friend, Little Richard went on to record a children's album for Walt Disney Records as well as a collaborative album with Japanese guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka.  These upcoming titles from Omnivore, due October 23, promise to shed light on two distinctive periods of Little Richard's long, extraordinary career.  You'll find the track listings and pre-order links below.

The Second Coming: Expanded Edition (Omnivore OVCD-398, 2020) (Omnivore / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

  1. Mockingbird Sally
  2. Second Line
  3. It Ain't What You Do, It's The Way How You Do It
  4. The Saints
  5. Nuki Suki
  6. Rockin' Rockin' Boogie
  7. Prophet Of Peace
  8. Thomasine
  9. Sanctified, Satisfied Toe-Tapper
  10. Money Is
  11. Do It - To It
  12. Mockingbird Sally (Single Edit)
  13. Money Is (Single Edit)

Tracks 1-9 released as Reprise MS 2107, 1972
Tracks 10-11 released on $: Music From The Original Motion Picture Sound Track - Reprise MS 2051, 1972
Track 12 released on Reprise single REP 1130, 1972
Track 13 released on Reprise European single REP 14147, 1972

Lifetime Friend: Expanded Edition (Omnivore OVCD-399, 2020) (Omnivore / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

  1. Great Gosh A'Mighty
  2. Operator
  3. Somebody's Comin'
  4. Lifetime Friend
  5. Destruction
  6. I Found My Way
  7. The World Can't Do Me
  8. One Ray Of Sunshine
  9. Someone Cares
  10. Big House Reunion
  11. Operator (Single Edit)
  12. Operator (Extended Mix)

Tracks 1-10 released as Warner Bros. Records 25529, 1986
Track 11 from WEA U.K. single YZ89, 1986
Track 12 from WEA U.K. 12" YZ89T, 1986

Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Billy Preston, Little Richard

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. John says

    September 17, 2020 at 11:00 am

    They're not including the single edit of "Great Gosh A'Mighty" on the expanded edition of "Lifetime Friend"?!

    The 7" single was mixed by Chris Lord-Alge and clocks in at 3:40, while the album version is 4:48. I can't believe this was overlooked since they are adding the single edit and extended of "Operator."

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    • Ron B Fowler says

      December 14, 2021 at 10:21 pm

      The single was on MCA; the album on Warners. That is the only reason I can imagine they didn't include it on the album. Two completely different recordings.

      Reply

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