On this day in 1955 Little Richard released “Tutti Fruitti”when he was working as a dishwasher at a Greyhound bus station in his hometown of Macon, Georgia. Explaining how he came up with the song, he told Rolling Stone: I couldnt talk back to my boss man. He would bring all these pots back for me to wash, and one day I said, Ive got to do something to stop this man bringing back all these pots to me to wash, and I said, Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take em out! and thats what I meant at the time. And so I wrote Tutti Frutti in the kitchen, I wrote Good Golly Miss Molly in the kitchen, I wrote Long Tall Sally in that kitchen. He was 22 years old. Richard says that Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom was kind of his catch phrase, something he would reply to folks who asked him how he was doing. –From Songfacts youtu.be/F13JNjpNW6c
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:29:33 +0000
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