The new season starting Monday will feature a new version of Little Richard’s hit “Rip It Up” featuring new instrumentals and backup vocals from the Virginia-based band Butcher Brown.

Little Richard ‘s throat-hoarsening tribute to letting loose and partying, “Rip It Up,” just got a facelift and will now amp up football fans before the big game.

SPORTS New version of Little Richard's 'Rip It Up' to replace Hank Williams Jr.'s 'Monday Night Football' theme song Williams' song was used on the show from 1989-2011 and 2017-2019 ...

Vera relates the story of songwriter John Marascalco, whose name is on several hits by Little Richard (“Ready Teddy,” “Good Golly Miss Molly” and even “Rip It Up”).

Rolling Stone noted that a reference to Monday night would probably replace the original reference to Saturday night in “Rip It Up." While Little Richard's original 1956 vocal performance will ...

The high-pompadoured pianist, born Richard Penniman, screamed, whooped and pounded on his keys as he ripped through ecstatic R&B songs including "Long Tall Sally," "Tutti Frutti" and "Rip It Up." ...

The network’s producers tasked its music director with dreaming up a new theme, so he and his team selected Little Richard ‘s 1956 barnburner “Rip It Up” and sent the a cappella vocal ...

Imagine touring the south in the 50s, playing music that scared people, being African American, and wearing make up. Little Richard was fearless and unstoppable. He’s in a category all his own.

Over the next two years, Richard dominated the charts with hits like “Long Tall Sally,” “Rip It Up,” “The Girl Can’t Help It,” “Lucille,” and “Good Golly, Miss Molly.” “Richard Penniman is the artist ...

With slightly cleaned-up lyrics, "Tutti Frutti" was the record that gave birth to Little Richard as he is now known — the gleeful "woo!"s, the furious piano playing, the sax-driven, pedal-to-the-metal ...

“RIP Little Richard,” wrote Wright in his post. “It’s some feat to have music made that still sounds raucous 62 years later. His sound never dated and he had an energy rarely equalled.