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RIP Little Richard, aged 87, which, boy does that make me feel old.
The link will take you to his “Rip It Up”. I read a reminiscence by another child of the 1950’s, who said that when he first heard this song, the most subversive element for him was not the pervasive sexual atmosphere but “It’s Saturday night, and I just got paid, fool about my money, don’t try to save.” The carelessness about money struck more deeply into the assumptions of the time than all the implied fornication.