There is no question that Little Richard was a hit-making machine. Between 1955 and 1958, Little Richard bopped into the Top 5 on the Billboard R&B charts nine times. His work prior to that, on ...

This song, written by Richard and Billy Preston, first made its appearance on the soundtrack for the movie Down and Out in Beverly Hills, a 1986 film in which he also played an onscreen acting role.

Little Richard’s albums have earned a combined 1 million total equivalent album units in the U.S. dating to the inception of Nielsen Music/MRC Data in 1991, and his entire song catalog has drawn ...

Little Richard turns an early-1950s Fats Domino song, “Going Home,” into a loose, anguished blues on his 1964 album “Little Richard Is Back (And There’s a Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On).” ...

This televised 1966 performance of a song recorded during the same sessions as "The Girl Can't Help It" illustrates Richard the Belter, a man who could go toe to toe with any soul singer on the ...

Although he never hit the top 10 again after 1958, Little Richard's influence was massive. The Beatles recorded several of his songs, including "Long Tall Sally," and Paul McCartney's singing on ...

Clearly sensing a market, Little Richard made the leap fully into kids music in 1992, when he teamed up with Disney for Shake It All About. Built entirely out of children’s songs—plus a few ...

“I appreciate being picked one of the top 100 performers, but who is No. 1 and who is No. 2 doesn’t matter to me anymore,” he said. “Because it won’t be who I think it should be.

Although he never hit the Top 10 again after 1958, Little Richard’s influence was massive. The Beatles recorded several of his songs, including “Long Tall Sally,” and Paul McCartney’s ...

Little Richard upended American culture starting in the mid-1950s with a set of scorched-earth performances on record, in concert, in film and on televison. The high-pompadoured pianist, born ...

Little Richard, the screaming, preening, scene-stealing wild man of early rock ‘n’ roll with hits like “Tutti Frutti” and “Long Tall Sally,” died Saturday, Dick Alen, his former agent ...

When Little Richard finally parted ways with his label Specialty Records in 1959, he’d already garnered nine Top 40 pop singles and at least 17 singles on the Top 40 R&B chart.