Little Richard
Tutti Frutti
According to Little Richard himself, this song is about anal sex between two men.The original lyrics went like this, “A wop bop a loo mop a good goddam/Tutti Frutti/Good booty/If it don’t fit, don’t force it/You can grease it/Make it easy.”
In 1955, Little Richard successfully submitted a demo to Specialty Records, a gospel and R &B label. It was at Specialty that Richard connected with Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, the producer who would go on to work with Richard on many of his big rock hits. After recording some songs that Blackwell was unsatisfied with, Bumps heard Richard pounding out "Tutti Frutti" on the piano and suggested they record it.
"I'd been singing 'Tutti Frutti' for years," Little Richard said, "but it never struck me as a song you'd record." It seemed too wild, first of all; second of all, there were those suggestive lyrics to deal with. It was one thing to roll out a song like that in a wild bar show that was partially improvised; it was quite another to record it for posterity. But Blackwell hired a second songwriter to re-write the words to the song. The band did three takes in the studio, and voilà: Little Richard's first hit single was made. In September 1955, "Tutti Frutti" climbed to the top of the R&B charts and hit #17 on Billboard's pop chart. It was followed by sixteen more Little Richard hits in the next three years. Almost overnight, Little Richard had made it big.