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#227 Little Richard, 'Here’s Little Richard' (1957)

“A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-lop-bam-boom!.” Ten simple nonsensical words that changed the face of music forever. “The Innovator, The Originator, and The Architect of Rock and Roll,” a more perfect title couldn’t have been bestowed on Little Richard. Those words taken from Little Richard’s first hit single, ‘Tutti Frutti,’ which was released in 1955.

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