James Frey
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13 hours ago · From the early 1950s, [183] Little Richard combined gospel with New Orleans R&B, heavy backbeat, [184] pounding piano and wailing vocals. [185] Ray Charles referred to Little Richard as being the artist that started a new kind of music, which was a funky style of rock and roll that he was performing onstage for a few years before appearing on record in 1955 as " Tutti Frutti ."
