[5][6] In April 2012, Rolling Stone magazine declared the refrain "the most inspired rock lyric ever recorded".

Rupe heard promise in the tapes and arranged a recording session for Little Richard at Cosimo Matassa's J & M Studio in New Orleans in September 1955, with Robert "Bumps" Blackwell as producer and Fats Domino's backing band.

The band included Lee Allen and Alvin "Red" Tyler on saxophones, Huey Smith on piano, Frank Fields on double bass, Justin Adams on guitar and Earl Palmer on drums.

[1][9] As the session wore on, Little Richard became frustrated that his anarchic performance style was not being fully captured on tape.

During a lunch break, he started pounding a piano and singing a ribald song that he wrote and composed, and which he had been performing live for a few years.

[12] Blackwell contacted local songwriter Dorothy LaBostrie to revise the lyrics, with Little Richard still playing in his characteristic style.

According to Charles Connor, Little Richard's drummer, the original lyrics were: Tutti Frutti, good booty If it's tight, it's all right And if it's greasy, it makes it easy[17] In addition to Penniman and LaBostrie, a third name—Lubin—is credited as co-writer.

[18] As possible evidence that the "sexual song" theory was created later, songwriter LaBostrie was quoted as saying, "Little Richard didn't write none of 'Tutti Frutti'.

[1] Released on Specialty 561, the record entered the Billboard Rhythm and Blues chart at the end of December 1955 and rose to No.

It was seen as a very aggressive song that contained more features of African American vernacular music than any other past recording in this style.

[28] In April 2012, Rolling Stone magazine declared that the song "still has the most inspired rock lyric on record.

"[29] Bob Dylan writing about the song opined "Little Richard was speaking in tongues across the airwaves long before anyone knew what was happening.

He took speaking in tongues right out of the sweaty canvas tent and put it on the mainstream radio, even screamed like a holy preacher-which is what he was.

"[30] "I'm Just a Lonely Guy," the B-side ballad credited to LaBostrie-Penniman, has rarely appeared on albums or compilations in its original, undubbed mix, as heard on the single.

[33] After Pat Boone's success with "Ain't That a Shame", his next single was "Tutti Frutti", markedly toned down from the already reworked Blackwell version.

The white kids would have Pat Boone upon the dresser and me in the drawer 'cause they liked my version better, but the families didn't want me because of the image that I was projecting.

Reportedly the lead vocal was always by Paul McCartney, but it is unknown whether their version was actually based on the one by Elvis or that of Little Richard.

In 1972 Ringo Starr drummed on, and produced a brief version with Elton John on piano and T. Rex singer Marc Bolan on lead vocal.