The Second Coming was Little Richard's third album for Reprise Records, and saw him reunited with Robert "Bumps" Blackwell from his Specialty days, with them co-writing the majority of the album together. Unfortunately the album again failed to chart.
Little Richard's profile was high during this period, with works including a track, "Miss Ann", on the album To Bonnie from Delaney and two tracks on the soundtrack to $. However, his own albums wer...
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The Second Coming was Little Richard's third album for Reprise Records, and saw him reunited with Robert "Bumps" Blackwell from his Specialty days, with them co-writing the majority of the album together. Unfortunately the album again failed to chart.
Little Richard's profile was high during this period, with works including a track, "Miss Ann", on the album To Bonnie from Delaney and two tracks on the soundtrack to $. However, his own albums weren't selling, and a fourth and final album for Reprise - Southern Child - was dropped from release. The tracks to all of Richard's Reprise sessions, including the Southern Child album, were finally released on CD in 2005 by Rhino Records.
Richard recalled: "I left Reprise because I felt that the producers didn't have me at heart. The Rill Thing was a good album. All the Reprise albums were, but they didn't push them. So I left them. It wasn't mutual. I went to Reprise because I felt the company could do something. [...] I think the producers...
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