In 1966,
OKeh Records
took its turn at trying to revive the recording career of
Little Richard
. In the fall of that year, they put him in a studio in Hollywood with his former
Specialty Records
associate
Larry Williams
producing, and the two cut this album of
rock & roll
ravers, which was released in January 1967.
is as frantic as ever, notably on the leadoff track,
"I Don't Want to Discuss It,"
later a showstopper for
Delaney & Bonnie
, but
rock
music trends were far removed from his style of rocking abandon by 1967, and this album went unnoticed.
OKeh
recorded
doing his hits that January and released the results several months later as
Greatest Hits Recorded Live
, but that was the end of this comeback. ~ William Ruhlmann