Little Richard - Jenny Jenny

You are correct, Ringmaster. There are several Little Richard 45s that have
reverb that fails to turn up on CDs, including the Rhino "18 Greatest Hits",
where I have his hits.

Wonder what happened here...perhaps since Specialty issued his singles for
years after, at some point the reverb went missing and no one remembered the
original singles?

The Rhino disc sounds excellant after all these years

The Little Richard original 45 with the most reverb may
well be "Rip It Up". I don't see an original 45 on
YouTube (even the45prof's upload is not an original 45),
so I uploaded mine, even though it's in pretty rough
shape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZPhUfGhU1s

(Sorry, after more than fifteen years on the board, I
still haven't figured out how to properly post a link.)

As has been stated on this board before, Specialty kept
many of its 45s and albums in print with the original
label number until at least the late 1990s and perhaps
even into the 2000s. In the mid-1980s, I purchased new
Specialty 45s of most of Little Richard's top 40 hits.
None of these have the reverb found on the original 45s.
My best estimate is that the 45 image in the45prof's
upload is a 1960s pressing. In 1968, Specialty issued
Little Richard's Grooviest 17 Original Hits!.
Since then, most Little Richard Specialty 45s have stated
that the song is from this album. So if the label states
it is from this album, the 45 was definitely not pressed
prior to 1968.

A few years ago, the Ace label in the UK issued the
Little Richard CD, The Original British Hit
Singles, which I purchased in the faint hope that it
contained the hits with the original reverb. It did not.
I notice, however, that there is an upload on YouTube of
a UK London-American 78, and it does not have the reverb.
So it is entirely possible that original UK singles
didn't have the reverb.

As others with much more knowledge of such matters have
stated on this board, reverb was sometimes added when the
stampers were made without the reverb being present on
the actual tapes. This may well be what we have here. I
doubt very much that it has been less than fifty years
since the these recordings have been issued with the
original 45 version reverb, and it may well now be more
than sixty years.