AllMusic's Stewart Mason wrote of the album: "Listening to these tracks, it's clear why John Lennon was such a huge Larry Williams fan; his rough-and-ready no-bull voice is elastic enough to move from a Little Richard trill to a Ray Charles growl, and songs like 'Dizzy, Miss Lizzy' and 'Short Fat Fannie' are raucous enough to be punk rock nearly a full two decades before the concept was even in existence."[5]
^Pollock, Bruce (2011). If You Like the Beatles...: Here Are Over 200 Bands, Films, Records and Other Oddities That You Will Love. Backbeat Books. ISBN978-1617130182.
^Hilburn, Robert (December 30, 1988). "Specialty Records Releases Set of Little Richard's 1950s Songs". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. 26.