Talk:Tutti Frutti (song)

message: Is it a copyright violation to give the complete lyric here?
*Yes. Deltabeignet 04:19, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I just removed all the uncited info about the lyrics to the song. Please find a reliable source before readding.
Also any info about living people (such as the singer's person life) must have a citation from a reliable source. Blog entries where anyone can write what they want is not a reliable source.  Please see [[WP:BLP|Biographies of Living people policy and adhere to it before readding the information (i.e. don't readd it withou citing a reliable source)--Roswell native 20:36, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lyrics info that is uncited or from unreliable sources

message: This is a misrepresentation of something taken out of a very generalized statement in an article about Pat Boone. 
:Due to the song’s huge popularity with white teenagers, Pat Boone’s “whitewash” cover of the song was created in order to “sanitize the image of rock-and-roll in the 50’s and 60’s”, thereby producing a cleaned up version that appealed to a wider and whiter audience."Dixon, Keith. "Pat Boone, Minus Those White Bucks." The New York Times 04 May 1997, Late ed., sec. 220 Many, many songs were recorded over and over again to make money selling music in styles that various audiences wanted to hear. 23:10, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Racial Connotations?

message: Charles White's "Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorized Biography" indicates the following in relation to part of the lyrics for "Tutti Fruitti":  
"Awop-Bop-a-Loo-Mop Alop-Bam-Boom
Tutti Fruitti, Aw-Rootie (5 times)..."
I find it interesting that lyrics on the net and in this LR article indicate that the one line is "tutti frutti all rootie."  Further, this article now explains what "all" rootie meant at the time. Perhaps, "all" is pronounced "aw" and that's why the lyrics are printed that way in White's authorized biography.  as it stands in the article, the spelling does not seem to be correct.--Smoovedogg (talk) 23:55, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Tutti Frutti Lyric

message: According to Charles Connor, Little Richard's drummer back in the 50s, the original lyrics are:
:Tutti frutti, good booty
:If it's tight, it's alright
:If it's greasy, it makes it so easy
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP2fzGGvDX4 --Stormwatch (talk) 09:37, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, that's what he said in the BBC documentary - which I don't think is a reliable source in itself, nor is YouTube - and it's summarised here.  Clearly, there were different versions of the bawdy lyrics around - probably improvised.  We need to include what is set out in reliable published sources, but I'm not averse to tweaking the wording a little.   Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:44, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The real lyrics 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I just changed the hatnote so that it redirects only to the disambig page, which (of course) has links to all the related articles. I didn't think there was a need to single one out for a much less important song. (Not that that is a bad thing.  Almost any version of any song is less important than this one.)  PopSci (talk) 18:50, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hatnote changed 

message: 'All fruits' would be 'tutte le frutte' in Italian - 'tutti frutti' is really fake Italian for 'all fruits', and 'frutti' is only used in 'frutti secchi' to refer to dry fruit, but not to fresh fruit. I have tried to edit this page to reflect this fact and it has been reverted back without reason whatsoever. Would appreciate it if anyone did change the post to point that 'tutti frutti' is not Italian for 'all fruits', as the entry claims now, but 'fake/pretend' Italian for it. 2A02:6B67:6628:0:A069:14E4:99D5:3CC3 (talk) 13:07, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The words "Tutti frutti" refer to a type of ice cream, the name of which is derived from the Italian tutti i frutti, "all fruits".  So, "Tutti Frutti" itself is not strictly an Italian phrase.  I don't think there needs to be any explanation of the words in this article, though a link to the article about the ice cream might be worthwhile.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 21:13, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Tutti frutti is also slang for gay man. (so the good booty makes sense) 2601:646:4100:6A72:E7B8:1518:355:730E (talk) 09:43, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Tutti frutti' is not an Italian phrase