Little Richard: Keep on Rockin'
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Actor: Little RichardDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 27 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-01-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
Movie Reviews of Little Richard: Keep on Rockin'
Movie Review: Steady on the Comeback Trail
Summary: 4 Stars
Suprisingly short performance, also short on piano playing, a big feature then and now at a LR show, this DVD remains very important to his resume and to the long-suffering fans [meaning that even in 2007, there are very few real representative artifacts floating around out which capture this amazing musical originator at his greatest. Though Music Scene and This Is Tom Jones! packages show this artist in command during that under-discussed period in his career].
This festival segment was filmed shortly after Richard followed Janis Joplin at the Atlantic City weekend festival. It's been written that he took the stage in the rain, and as many started the journey home, he quickly brought 'em right back and made 'em temporarily forget all that came before. His power and talent re-energized an event, just when the downbeat was expected.
Some of that high energy carried over to Toronto, though his explosive performance of "Bony Moronie" at the earlier setting was not duplicated on 09-13-69: "Good Golly, Miss Molly" and "Hound Dog", coming close, here and there.
The DVD opens with "Blueberry Hill", reported to have been actually done just prior to the finale, "Long Tall Sally".
A European Little Richard Fan Club wrote of sensational live readings of things like "I Can't Stop Loving You", "Going To The River", and "Lawdy, Miss Clawdy", from various venues at the time. So the songlist itself won't make the very serious historians' big toe ting-a-ling-a-ling.
It's also been written that LR later participated in a (filmed) 1970 Randall's Island Show (which included Jimi Hendrix). Maybe the 'rill' live in concert Richard will eventually be seen on that imagined DVD. In '72, another LR festival entry was filmed, now available on the London Rock And Roll Show DVD. In comparison to this '69 appearance, it's Richard in slow motion, exhausted after the first song. So this DVD takes on even more importance, in that light.
Great cover art.
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