Good Golly Miss Molly – Little Richard (1958)

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Additional information about this, Little Richard vinyl art.

Little Richard

Richard Wayne Penniman (1932 – 2020), better known as Little Richard, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He was an influential figure in popular music and culture for seven decades. Nicknamed “The Innovator”, “The Originator”, and “The Architect of Rock and Roll”, Penniman’s most celebrated work dates from the mid-1950s, when his charismatic showmanship and dynamic music, characterised by frenetic piano playing, pounding backbeat and raspy shouted vocals, laid the foundation for rock and roll. His innovative emotive vocalisations and uptempo rhythmic music also played a key role in the formation of other popular music genres, including soul and funk. He influenced numerous singers and musicians across musical genres from rock to hip hop; his music helped shape rhythm and blues for generations to come.

Good Golly Miss Molly – The Song

‘Good Golly Miss Molly’  is a rock ‘n’ roll song first recorded in 1956 by American musician Little Richard and released in January 1958 as Specialty single 624, and later on Little Richard in March 1958. The song, a jump blues, was written by John Marascalco and producer Robert “Bumps” Blackwell. Although it was first recorded by Little Richard, Blackwell produced another version by the Valiants, who imitated the fast first version recorded by Little Richard, not released at that time. Although the Valiants’ version was released first (in 1957), Little Richard had the hit. Like all his early hits, it quickly became a rock ‘n’ roll standard and has subsequently been recorded by hundreds of artists.

The Robinsons Golliwog – The Shape

This record has been modelled into the Robinsons Golliwog. The golliwog, also spelled golliwogg or shortened to golly, is a doll-like character, created by cartoonist and author Florence Kate Upton, which appeared in children’s books in the late 19th century, usually depicted as a type of rag doll. It was reproduced, both by commercial and hobby toy-makers, as a children’s soft toy called the “golliwog”, a portmanteau of golly and polliwog, and had great popularity in the Southern United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia into the 1970s.
The golliwog is controversial, being widely considered a racist caricature of black people, alongside pickaninnies, minstrels, and mammy figures. The doll is characterised by jet black skin, eyes rimmed in white, exaggerated red lips and frizzy hair, based on the blackface minstrel tradition. Since the 20th century, the word “golliwog” has been considered a racial slur towards black people. Changing political attitudes with regard to race have reduced the popularity and sales of golliwogs as toys. Manufacturers who have used golliwogs as a motif (e.g. Robertson’s marmalade in the UK) have either withdrawn them as an icon or changed the name.

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