Brian Damage
02-08-2010, 10:35 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/books/review/DeCurtis-t.html
“Tutti Frutti,” his 1955 breakthrough hit, is not best described as “a paean” to anal sex that helped transform him into “a cultural icon on the scale of the founding fathers.”
Indeed, exploring the significance of “Tutti Frutti” is another of the book’s projects. Perhaps because the song has long been acknowledged as one of the detonating blasts of the ’50s rock ’n’ roll explosion, Kirby feels compelled to up the stakes. “Tutti Frutti,” he maintains, is “a seminal text in American culture, as much as ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ ‘Song of Myself’ and the great documents of the civil rights era are. In a sense, it’s America’s Other National Anthem.”
Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
A-Wop-bop-a-loo-lop a-lop-bam-boo
Tutti Frutti, all over rootie,.....
A-wop-bop-a-loo-lop a-lop bam boo
I got a gal, named Sue,
She knows just what to do. .....
I've been to the east, I'vebeen to the west, but
she's the gal
That I love the best.
Tutti Frutti, all over rootie,.....
A-wop-bop-a-loo-lop a-lop bam boo
I got a gal, named Daisy,
She almost drives me crazy ........
She knows how to love me ,
Yes indeed
Boy you don't know,
What she's doing to me
Tutti Frutti, all over rootie,.....
A-wop-bop-a-loo-lop a-lop bam boo
I got a gal, named Daisy...
“Tutti Frutti,” his 1955 breakthrough hit, is not best described as “a paean” to anal sex that helped transform him into “a cultural icon on the scale of the founding fathers.”
Indeed, exploring the significance of “Tutti Frutti” is another of the book’s projects. Perhaps because the song has long been acknowledged as one of the detonating blasts of the ’50s rock ’n’ roll explosion, Kirby feels compelled to up the stakes. “Tutti Frutti,” he maintains, is “a seminal text in American culture, as much as ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ ‘Song of Myself’ and the great documents of the civil rights era are. In a sense, it’s America’s Other National Anthem.”
Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
A-Wop-bop-a-loo-lop a-lop-bam-boo
Tutti Frutti, all over rootie,.....
A-wop-bop-a-loo-lop a-lop bam boo
I got a gal, named Sue,
She knows just what to do. .....
I've been to the east, I'vebeen to the west, but
she's the gal
That I love the best.
Tutti Frutti, all over rootie,.....
A-wop-bop-a-loo-lop a-lop bam boo
I got a gal, named Daisy,
She almost drives me crazy ........
She knows how to love me ,
Yes indeed
Boy you don't know,
What she's doing to me
Tutti Frutti, all over rootie,.....
A-wop-bop-a-loo-lop a-lop bam boo
I got a gal, named Daisy...