Here’s Little Richard (1957) by Little Richard

Here’s Little Richard by Little Richard

Here’s Little Richard is an album by Little Richard, released in 1957. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 7 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Tutti Frutti”, on 4 lists with a best position of #162.

1957released

3charting songs

7appearances

0#1 finishes

Here's Little Richard, the man's debut album, hit the racks on Specialty in March 1957, and it plays less like an LP than a jukebox loaded to bursting. The label pitched it as six of his hits plus six new songs good enough to be hits, and it rounds up the A- and B-sides that had already been tearing up the charts: "Tutti Frutti", "Long Tall Sally", "Rip It Up", "Slippin' and Slidin'", "Jenny, Jenny", "Ready Teddy" and more.

Robert "Bumps" Blackwell produced all twelve tracks, cut in New Orleans and Los Angeles with everybody in the room pitching in. What comes out is the blueprint for the whole racket: hammered piano, a backbeat like a pile driver and that raspy howl riding on top. It was his highest-charting album, it has turned up on greatest-albums lists from Rolling Stone and Time, it entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2012, and in 2025 Uncut crowned it the finest album of the 1950s.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Years
1	Tutti Frutti	185	4	#162	–	2001–2023
2	Long Tall Sally	61	1	#342	–	2012
3	Rip It Up	33	2	#781	–	2012–2020

Song

Strength

Lists

Best

#1s

Years

Tutti Frutti

185

#162

–

2001–2023

Long Tall Sally

#342

–

2012

Rip It Up

#781

–

2012–2020

Here’s Little Richard by Little Richard

Songs from Here’s Little Richard on radio countdowns