Scranton Time - bits and pieces from Tom Flannery

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Little Richard

Little Richard

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Last week I heard a Little Richard quote. I thought I knew ‘em all but never heard this one.

“If I had been white there never would have been an Elvis Presley”.

And that got me thinking. LOTS.

(For the record I’m not sure I agree with him. Elvis was a motherfucker, and even Jerry Lee Lewis, the whitest cracker alive, couldn’t dim his star. But Richard’s …

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