Child Prodigy: Little Richard
 

A child prodigy: It's Richard Wayne Penniman (aka Little Richard) about fifteen years before "Tutti Frutti, oh, Rudy...." If you're familiar with early period Beatles,
you'll know that Paul McCartney was very heavily influenced by Little Richard.

Here is some rare footage of "Little Richard" as a child, when he was just starting out in the music biz' ... from a movie with Van Johnson ...

http://www.wimp.com/oldschool/

Great web site

The scene is from the movie "No Leave, No Love" made in 1946. It is NOT Richard Pettiman, but is Frank "Sugarchile" Robinson who is the piano player.