2:16
single, 1957
Written by Richard Penniman, Bert Mays, and J. Mayo Williams
An uptempo boogie with a screaming vocal interspersed with that great Penniman "woo!" The drum fill at the very beginning is akin to the drums that start Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll," so much that I find that it's usually taken by commenters online to be a tribute. Although this song is credited to the three songwriters above, it has a long history dating back to the 1920s; the version recorded by Milton Brown is basically the same song as Little Richard's, just in a bluegrass, jug band style.
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