sentences:  Between the release of "The Rill Thing" and Little Richard's last album" " (1967) there had been several album releases, but all were repackaged collections of songs that had already been released previously, including some of his Specialty work.The release of the album came less than a year after Richard's performance at Atlantic City Pop Festival, and with "Freedom Blues" he had his biggest American pop hit in thirteen years.This period was about a year and a half before reported usage of cocaine 
  Richard returned to the studios in May 1971 to produce a follow-up for Reprise with a more "teen" sound.