HACKNEY SENIOR CHOIR - SONGS YOU SIMPLY HAVE TO HEAR!
No 6 – TUTTI-FRUTTI Click to hear it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj059o9OwqY NAME OF SONG TUTTI-FRUTTI
‘’Tutti Frutti’ means ‘All Fruits’ in Italian!
ARTIST Little Richard
DATE OF RELEASE OCTOBER 1955
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The song contains the extraordinary line – ‘A wop bop a loo bop, a wop bam bom!’ which is meant to sound like a ‘drum fill’. This is thought by some to be the most inspired Rock and Roll lyric ever written.
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‘Tutti Frutti’ is considered to be the song that established the Rock and Roll groove’, with it’s loud volume and powerful vocal style.
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‘Tutti Frutti’ is ranked No.43 in the list of Top 500 songs compiled by the magazine Rolling Stone
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‘Tutti Frutti’ is included in the US Library of Congress National Recording Registry, where it is named as ‘heralding a new era in music.
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Little Richard’s father threw him out of his house when he was 15 because he was gay.
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Little Richard was once described as the ‘Architect of Rock and Roll.
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He died on 9 May aged 87.
Little Richard loved his ‘pencil’ moustache and wore it throughout his life.