No, not Little Richard: it's the King of Western Swing, Spade Cooley, with Tex Williams on vocals and Joaquin Murphey on steel guitar, from the 1945 film Rockin' in the Rockies, with the Three Stooges:
There's a glorious guitar solo at 1:18 – short and sweet – from (according to a YouTube commenter) Johnny Weis, father of Iron Butterfly founder Danny Weis. Those music genes, eh?
More Tex Williams here, ten years older and wiser, with Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette).
Spade Cooley got older, but no wiser. He murdered his wife in 1961, and that, career-wise, was pretty much that.
Mick Hartley 
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