By 1959, Little Richard was starting to make gospel recordings and had minor sales success with some of them; “He Got What He Wanted” made the Top 40 in the U.K.  His childhood hero Mahalia Jackson acknowledged his gospel efforts positively; after working with Little Richard on his 1962 album King of the Gospel Singers, Quincy Jones said in 1984 that he was more impressed with those performances than those of anyone he had worked with.