Friends from the Beginning - Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix

Friends from the Beginning – Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix was Little Richard's eighteenth album release containing new material. Although most of the tracks present had been available on albums dating as far back as September 1964, the album did contain six new tracks *not* from the Vee-Jay vaults: "Belle Stars", "Funky Dish Rag", both instrumentals probably cut in April, 1971, and "Why Don't You Love Me?", recorded that same year, all of which obviously had no Hendrix involvement, plus instrumental reworkings of "Lucille", "Long Tall Sally" (titled "Tutti Frutti"), and "Keep A-Knockin'". [Tracks 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12 Personnel include Little Richard (keyboards?); rest unknown (possibly a mix of Little Richard's 1970s touring band and...