![]() Blackwell heard promise in the tapes and arranged a recording session for Little Richard at in New Orleans in September 1955, with Fats Domino’s backing band. In February 1955, he sent a demo tape to Specialty Records, which was heard by producer Robert ‘Bumps’ Blackwell. Little Richard Penniman had recorded for Peacock Records since 1951, his records had been relatively undistinguished and had sold poorly. That opening cry of “A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bop-bop!” was supposedly intended to be an onomatopoeic parody of a drum intro. Richard started playing the piano in the bar, singing aloud and lewd version of “Tutti Frutti.” With only fifteen minutes left in the session, Richard recorded the song and coined the phrase, “A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom.”Ĭan you imagine how cool it would be to coin a phrase like that! And today over fifty years later, it still sounds as good. Things were not going well and during a break, Richard and his producer Bumps Blackwell went to the Dew Drop Inn for lunch. In Sept 1955, Little Richard entered a New Orleans recording studio to begin two days of recording.
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