Tutti-Frutti

Little Richard

Posted Dec 09, 2004 12:00 AM

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Written by: Dorothy La Bostrie, Richard Penniman, Joe Lubin
Produced by: Robert "Bumps" Blackwell
Released: Dec. '55 on Specialty
Charts: 12 weeks
Top spot: No. 17

"I'd been singing 'Tutti-Frutti' for years," said Richard, "but it never struck me as a song you'd record." Blackwell asked La Bostrie, a young songwriter who had been pestering him for work, to clean up the filthy lyrics. "Fifteen minutes before the session was to end, the chick comes in and puts these little trite lyrics in front of me," said Blackwell. Richard cleaned up his own "Awop-bop-a-loo-mop a-good-goddamn" and loaded La Bostrie's doggerel with sexual dynamite.

Appears on: The Georgia Peach (Specialty)

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