Little Richard

[Bruce Tuncks]

Gosh I remember how the Everley Brothers were banned in some US states for the song " Wake up little Suzy" whilst Little Richard sang "Tutti Fruiti I wanna rootie " and he wasn't banned! I never figured this out and now I can't ask him.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Maybe a rootie in the US means root beer... or root and beer? Not sure...

[pmccarthy]

Yes it is an Aussie slang, he didn’t say it. He said all rootie, meant nothing.

Edited May 10, 2020 by Guest

[old man emu]

Little Richard's Tutti Fruiti.

According to some accounts, Little Richard first wrote and performed the song while working as a janitor in a bus station.

 

The original lyrics, in which "Tutti Frutti" referred to a homosexual man, were:

Tutti Frutti, good booty

If it don't fit, don't force it

You can grease it, make it easy

 

These were replaced with:

Tutti Frutti, aw rooty

Tutti Frutti, aw rooty.

 

"Aw rooty" was a slang expression meaning "All right".

[Bruce Tuncks]

So it was cos I was Australian? Bugger, I never realized that but it does make sense.

[onetrack]

There's pages of the WWW dedicated to misheard lyrics. Some of them are hilarious.

 

Some of my favourites;

 

Hermans Hermits - "She's a Must to Avoid" -

 

Original lyrics: "She's a Must to Avoid" .....

 

Misheard lyrics:

 

"She's a Muscular Boy" ....

"She's a Muscular Droid" ....

"She's a Muscular Void" ....

"She's a Master of Freud" ....

"Cheese and Mustard Avoid" ....

 

 

Billy Joel - "Allentown"

 

Original Lyrics: "Iron and coke, chromium steel" .....

 

Misheard Lyrics: "I have a choke, throw me a seal" .....

 

 

 

The Beach Boys - "Airplane"

 

Original Lyrics: "Soon she'll be kissing me hello" .....

 

Misheard Lyrics: "Soon she'll be kissing me below" .....

 

 

 

Bee Gees - "Alone"

 

Original Lyrics: "I was a midnight rider on a cloud of smoke" .....

 

Misheard Lyrics: "I was in Knight Rider but I never spoke" ....

 

 

One blokes actually written a book of misheard lyrics. You can find some in the link below .....

 

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/artist/

[Bruce Tuncks]

Rootie may well be Aussie but what about " I gotta girl named Sue, she knows just what to do " " she knows how to love me..."

I reckon these add to the impression I always had about the rootie.

[Bruce Tuncks]

Once my daughter asked me " Dad, what's a stee ?"

She was trying to work out what they meant in the song " I ask in all on a stee"

[onetrack]

And of course, there's always the misheard/mis-sung National anthem line - “Australians all eat ostriches, for breakfast, lunch, and tea” ....

[octave]

Some misheard lyrics from my son from many years ago. One day he asked me what a "subosta" was, having no idea what he meant I asked him where he heard it. He told me it was in that song we had listened to a few times. The lyrics were actually "you're no SUPPOSED to be here with me.

In a similar vein he also asked me what a "forelash" was, again asking for some context hes said like in that song "touches my forlash hard" which turned out to be "touches my FOOLISH HEART"

[willedoo]

And then there's the parodies like "Pardon me, boy, is that the cat that chewed your new shoes?"

[Yenn]

I used to like the rock mice hole in the bosom of Abraham song.

[red750]

Or Alanis Morriset's lyric "The cross I'd bear" misheard as "The cross-eyed bear."