Tutti Frutti (song)
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"Tutti Frutti" was Little Richard's first hit record, released in 1955. With its opening cry of "Womp-bomp-a-loom-op-a-womp-bam-boom!" (Various transliterations of this have been made. Nik Cohn's book on the history of pop music used the title "Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom") (supposedly intended to be a verbal parody of a drum intro) and its hard-driving sound and wild lyrics, it became not only a model for many future Little Richard songs, but also one of the models for rock and roll itself.
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