Now that too is gone

[packman]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/little-richard-dead-48505/

(In the above clip - just for the hell of it - count the number of black people sitting in the audience clapping their hands)

[BigmanPigman]

1. He influenced most of the great musicians and bands

who followed him.

[2naSalit]

2. My mom

hated him... and the rest of us liked his music.

[PatrickforO]

3. I was a small child when he gave this performance, probably in 1962.

I wonder if this performance was in Great Britain.

That's why there's no black people clapping their hands. But it is this music that gave birth to the British Invasion.

I love this stuff!

[soldierant]

5. I think it was ... but that's not the teason.

Is that time black people still were not admitted as customers to the clubs where the best jazz and rock was played (by black people. Up until the Civil Rights movement, before that as far as history can go, that has been the case. Jim Crow, yes, but (going backwards) also "redemption," reconstruction, slavery.

All jazz and all rock is basically black.

[colorado_ufo]

4. Love Little Richard! Great video!

Kudos to the one white young lady at the far right who seems to be the only one in the audience with rhythm. Dancers really shine, as well!