Sarah Morgan wrote: what's on offer (music-wise) this week, I recommend: (on radio for Walter)
Tutti Frutti: A celebration of the 'cultural significance' of Little Richard's first rendition of the song. Tues 1.30p.m. (GMT) Radio 4.
'night! :wink:
I was lucky enough to catch some of this radio programme in the car as I drove up to Wigan yesterday. I heard about 20 minutes of it. Must get a Radio Times and see if it is repeated this week.
Very good programme, thanks for the find Sarah. It described the music scene in New Orleans in the 1950s. Odd, that the hero of the british "rockers" was a gay artist from a largely transvestite scene. Apparently "Miss Molly" was a slang term for a gay male prostitute.
What a singer Little Richard was/ is; never equalled.