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Post by Lord Emsworth on May 9, 2020 16:10:37 GMT
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Post by personunknown on May 9, 2020 16:40:59 GMT
I honestly thought he'd gone already. Tutti Frutti which kick started his career is a great musical urban legend.
Not getting a series of songs right in the studio, Richard and the band decamped to a bar. In the corner was a piano and he started banging out the bordello tune Tutti Frutti with their original obscene lyrics about homosexual intercourse. His manager got Dolly La Bostrie to alter the words and the rest is history.
A Wop Bam Boom indeed.
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Post by zeopold on May 9, 2020 20:35:44 GMT
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Post by jsm on May 10, 2020 23:43:02 GMT
So much great music.
RIP Mr Penniman
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Post by jsm on May 15, 2020 0:08:46 GMT
Little Richard is name-checked in The Clash's 'Gates of the West'. Maybe someone they met in New York, not the real one
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Post by jsm on Oct 20, 2022 22:28:59 GMT
Little Richard, Charles Connor and the Choo-Choo Train Beat
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Post by zeopold on Oct 21, 2022 21:26:07 GMT
I saw Richard open for Chuck Berry at Caesar's in Vegas back in the 90's They were both getting on but they could still play.
James Brown and his entourage joined the audience to a standing ovation and occupied the tables opposite mine just as Richard finished his set with 'Tutti Frutti'.
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