“Long Tall Sally” by Little Richard

"Long Tall Sally", sometimes billed as "Long Tall Sally (The Thing)", is Little Richard at full throttle, cut for Specialty Records and found on Here's Little Richard. He wrote it with Robert "Bumps" Blackwell and Enotris Johnson, pounds the piano and hollers the lead, backed by Lee Allen on tenor sax, Alvin "Red" Tyler on baritone, Edgar Blanchard on guitar, Frank Fields on bass and Earl Palmer on drums.

Specialty put it out as a single with "Slippin' and Slidin'" on the flip, and it sat atop the rhythm and blues chart for six of its 19 weeks there while reaching number six on the pop side. It took Cash Box's Triple Crown Award in 1956, Rolling Stone later ranked it at number 55 among the greatest songs of all time, and in 1999 his Specialty recording entered the Grammy Hall of Fame.

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