The Greatest Record Ever Made?
Some say A Whiter Shade of Pale, others say Stairway to Heaven. Both answers are wrong. The correct answer is, of course, Good Golly Miss Molly by Little Richard. <<<< While I don't agree with him - I think it IS AWSoP - perhaps Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle does. Just over 3 weeks after Matthew posted the above, Carroll expressed very similar sentiments in his December 7th column: >>>>> Little Richard and The Great Dame Saw Aunt Mary coming and he jumped back into the Theatre on the Square JON CARROLL Monday, December 7, 1998 IT IS ABOUT time that someone said out loud while he is still alive that Little Richard is one of the great Americans of the 20th century. His devotion to anarchy is both uncompromising and cheerful, an almost impossible combination. His fashion sense is so peccable that it achieves impeccability by coming in the back door. He can still do a falsetto scream at will. Plus, he rocks. Here is what there is too much of in popular music today: dour people
