Vinyl Album - Little Richard - It's Real - Little Richard The King Of The Gospel Singers - Mercury

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Little Richard
Title:	It's Real - Little Richard The King Of The Gospel Singers
Label:	Mercury
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	20036 MCL / 125 010 MCL
Date:	1965
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	3 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Little Richard	It's Real		Rate
A2	Little Richard	Joy, Joy, Joy		Rate
A3	Little Richard	Do You Care		Rate
A4	Little Richard	The Captain Calls For You		Rate
A5	Little Richard	In Times Like These		Rate
A6	Little Richard	Do Lord, Remember Me		Rate
B1	Little Richard	Ride On King Jesus		Rate
B2	Little Richard	(There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)		Rate
B3	Little Richard	He's Not Just A Soldier		Rate
B4	Little Richard	My Desire		Rate
B5	Little Richard	He's My Star		Rate
B6	Little Richard	It Takes Everything To Serve The Lord		Rate

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PhilMH SUBS 2nd Nov 2018		Released today as a digital download, in stereo (though the cover graphic used on the download sites is for the US mono album), and the songs are in the original sequence, unlike the 1989 LP/CD reissue on Lection. This album could have been a whole lot better if: (1) The choir had been sent home; (2) The strings had been sent home; (3) Quincy Jones had taken Richard back to his church in Macon (presuming that the church would have still had him). Richard does have a few stirring vocal moments here (obviously someone else was playing piano - WTF?), but I get the feeling that in another life, Richard could have been a crooner somewhere between Johnny Mathis and Roy Hamilton.



lorangrecords SUBS 15th Sep 2018		Added 1965 acc. to Record Collector.



ppint. ● 30th May 2017		philmh: yes,1964 or early '65 looks right, by interpolation between the few early philips-licence mercury lps we have from then.



PhilMH SUBS 30th May 2017		Hi ppint, I suspect that there was no EMI issue of the album; I have EMI's 1963 catalogue, which lists two singles, AMT 1165 and AMT 1189, but nothing else. Other sources to hand, Terry Hounsome's NEW ROCK RECORD and the RECORD COLLECTOR RARE RECORD PRICE GUIDE 1995, also show no EMI issue, and the latter dates this Philips issue as 1965, which could be correct.



ppint. ● 29th May 2017		philmh: thank-you; yes, i should have spotted that, i suppose, but i'm not sure yr hmbl srppnt. saw a non- philips-uk mercury uk label until sometime in the seventies, by which time they were ancient history. . .° so, would there have been a prior uk lp of this released during the emi licence period, c.1961-2 (-3?) ? ° - and these were only 45-AMT prefix series singles; no lps or eps; the mercury label meant little or nothing to yr hmbl srppnt. until a couple of singles released in the mid-sixties impinged



PhilMH SUBS 26th May 2017		Hi ppint, Mercury was still distributed by EMI in the UK up until the end of 1963, and then moved to Philips in 1964. This looks like one of the earliest Philips issues.



ppint. ● 26th May 2017		yuk-of-gb-and-norn-ironian release date c. 1961/2 (merkin original release was in 1961); title of the album is "it's real", see label; "king of the gospel singers" is a cover puff-line (correction submitted).

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Linked Releases

Netherlands - Mercury - 1964 [Stereo]

USA - Lection - 1989