Little Richard shatter racial divisions in the music industry. Little Richard was born Richard Wayne Penniman on December 5, 1932, in Macon, Georgia. He was the third of twelve children of Leva Mae (née Stewart) and Charles "Bud" Penniman. His father was a church deacon who sold bootlegged moonshine on the side and owned a nightclub, the Tip In Inn. His mother was a member of Macon's New Hope Baptist Church. Initially, Little Richard's first name was supposed to have been "Ricardo" but an error resulted in "Richard" instead. The Penniman children were raised in a neighborhood of Macon called Pleasant Hill.
Wayne Gibson rose to # 17 on the chart in late 1974, and Gibson briefly re-emerged to promote it on "Top of the Pops". His version of the song was described by journalist, Stuart Maconie as an "embarrassing novelty Northern soul hit". Wayne Gibson Wayne Gibson was the stage name of Edward William "Bill" Allen (15 December 1942 - 1 April 2004). He was a British pop singer who had two hits on the UK singles chart, "Kelly" in 1964 and "Under My Thumb" in 1974. In the early 1960s, he was lead singer in a South London-based band, the Tornadoes (unrelated