Little Richard - The Second Coming (1996)

Little Richard - The Second Coming (1996)
2 CDs | Genre: Jazz | Release: 1996 | MP3 320 kbps | 266 MB

This compilation consists of tracks recorded for Vee-Jay Records in 1964/1965. As covered on the entry for Little Richard Is Back (And There’s A Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On!), Richard recorded nearly fifty tracks for Vee-Jay Records in 1964/1965. With the collapse of Vee Jay, some tracks went unreleased until they appeared on Mr. Big and Talkin’ ’bout Soul albums. But this rare compilation contains a most tracks from these sessions.
A successful British tour finally made Richard return to his rock and roll roots, and tracks for singles were cut in 1963/1964 with Specialty, though not enough for an album. Although the records kept in the Vee-Jay Records vaults aren’t terribly accurate (many even disputing whether or not Jimi Hendrix played guitar on 17 tracks as reputed), it’s believed that Richard stepped into the recording studios on June 1964 and had a further six sessions until late in 1965, recording forty-six tracks. Over half of these tracks were split between this and the follow-up album, Little Richard’s Greatest Hits, yet the company was not able to do any more with the unreleased recordings as financial problems caused them to file for bankruptcy in January 1966. As a result of Vee-Jay Records’s collapse, the archive tracks were gradually released over a period of time, often adding just one unreleased track from the vaults.
The files at Vee Jay hold that Richard had seven sessions at the company from June 1964 – c. 1965, remaking seventeen of his old hits ("Tutti Frutti", "Good Golly Miss Molly" et al.) and recording thirty brand new ones. Even though Richard had left the company, Vee-Jay tracks were being released up until 1974. Jimi Hendrix played guitar on some of the sessions and this was released to cash in on his death.