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"Long Tall Sally", also known as "Long Tall Sally (The Thing)", [2] [3] is a rock and roll song written by Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, Enotris Johnson, and Little Richard. Richard recorded it for Specialty Records , which released it as a single in March 1956, backed with " Slippin' and Slidin' " .
"I Call Your Name" is a song recorded by the English rock band the Beatles and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was written primarily by John Lennon, with assistance from Paul McCartney. [5] [6] It was released in the US on The Beatles' Second Album on 10 April 1964 and in the UK on the Long Tall Sally EP on 19 June 1964.
In the UK, it only scraped into the top 30 in 1957, as the B-side of "Long Tall Sally". The song, with its twelve-bar blues chord progression, [22] provided the foundation of Little Richard's career. It was seen as a very aggressive song that contained more features of African American vernacular music than any other past recording in this ...
The song originated in McCartney's attempt to write a song in the style of Little Richard, whose song "Long Tall Sally" the band regularly covered. Inspired by 1950s R&B and rock and roll numbers, the song's lyrics sing of an unrequited love, but rather than a lament are instead performed in a hysterical, "celebratory frenzy" [1] of
Several clips of the performance are sprinkled throughout the film, but it was McCartney’s larynx-shredding version of Little Richard’s “Long Tall Sally” that yielded the only spontaneous ...
"Slippin' and Slidin' (Peepin' and Hidin')" is an R&B/rock 'n' roll song performed by Little Richard. The song is credited to Little Richard, Edwin Bocage , Al Collins, and James Smith. [1] Al Collins first recorded "I Got the Blues for You" in 1955. Eddie Bo wrote new lyrics and adapted the song in 1956 under the name "I'm Wise".
An album with the same title and similar cover art but containing different songs from the US release, was issued on the EMI subsidiary label Odeon in 1964 for the Japanese market. The same cover art was used for the album The Beatles' Long Tall Sally issued by Capitol Records of Canada.
The Beatles' Long Tall Sally is an album by the English rock band the Beatles, their final album to be released exclusively in Canada.It was a mono release on the Capitol Records label (catalogue number T 6063) in May 1964.