The Explosive Little Richard

Infobox Album
Name = The Explosive Little Richard
Type = Studio album
Artist = Little Richard


Released = January 1967
Recorded = 5 February 1966 - 15 September 1966
Genre = Rock and Roll/Soul
Length = 29:49
Label = Okeh
Producer = Larry Williams
Last album = "The Wild and Frantic Little Richard" (1966)
This album = "The Explosive Little Richard" (1967)
Next album = ""
(1967)

"The Explosive Little Richard" is the first album from Little Richard under the Okeh label, utilising a new soul sound. Unusually for a Little Richard rock album, it featured no tracks penned by Richard himself. Despite the new direction, it failed to chart on Billboard.

Track listing

# "Get Down With It" (Marchan) - 3:16
# "Land of a Thousand Dances" (Domino, Kenner) – 2:10
# "The Commandments of Love" (Williams) – 2:27
# "I Don't Want To Discuss It" (Beatty, Cooper, Shelby) – 2:28
# "Money (That's What I Want)" (Bradford, Gordy) – 2:02
# "Poor Dog (Who Can't Wag His Own Tail)" (Watson, Williams) – 3:06
# "I Need Love" (Williams) – 2:39
# "Never Gonna Let You Go" (Cooper, Shelby) – 2:41
# "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)" (Willis) – 4:39
# "Function At The Junction" (Holland, Long) – 2:35
# "Well (aka Well All Right)" (Cooke) – 2:56

Personnel

*Little Richard – vocals, piano
*Johnny "Guitar" Watson – guitar

Other personnel unknown; no records kept by Okeh

Charts

AlbumSingle{| class="wikitable" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" !align="left"|Year!align="left"|Single!align="left"|Chart!align="left"|Position
-
align="left"|1967
align="left"|"I Don't Want To Discuss It/Hurry Sundown"
align="left"|Billboard Singles
align="left"|Did not chart
-
align="left"|1967
align="left"|"A Little Bit Of Something/Money (That's What I Want)"
align="left"|Billboard Singles
align="left"|Did not chart
-