My old song a hit!įriends, imagine the kind of world we’d be living in today if Pat Boone had gotten his hands on the original version of “Tutti Frutti. This guy Little Richard is taking the record market by storm.” I couldn’t believe it. The disk jockey Gene Nobles said, “This is the hottest record in the country. Well, I was at home in Macon when I heard them play it on Randy’s Record Mart, Radio WLAC out of Nashville, Tennessee. I didn’t go to New Orleans to record no “Tutti Frutti.” Sure, it used to crack the crowds up when I sang it in the clubs, with those risqué lyrics: Tutti Frutti, good booty/If it don’t fit, don’t force it/You can grease it, make it easy…īut I never thought it would be a hit, even with the lyrics cleaned up. I’d been singing “Tutti Frutti” for years, but it never struck me as a song you’d record. Little Richard recorded bowdlerized lyrics for his 1955 hit single, and the popularity of the throwaway tune, whose main appeal seemed to reside in the original version’s goofy lyrics about lust and lube, took its author by surprise: Never forget that “Tutti Frutti”-the song grandma danced to, the song you sang at the church picnic, the song that lent its name to a popular chain of frozen yogurt stands-began as a bawdy celebration of butt sex. Tutti Frutti gilt als erste erotische Fernsehshow in Deutschland.
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