Tutti Frutti

1955 Los Angeles, USA: Little Richard recorded a bowdlerised version of Tutti Frutti. What the naughty words were that he expunged, your almanackist has not been able to determine, but "all over rootie" is still in the published lyrics.

I always thought it was "I wanna rootie", but perhaps it was just me projecting. The most famous line of the song is when Richard sings "A Wop bop a lu bop ba lop bam boom!" Or something like that.

Following an Australian tour in 1957, during which (on a harbour cruise) he looked up into a Sydney sky and saw Sputnik and was troubled by it, he said he saw a vision of the apocalypse and his own damnation in a dream ...

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