<P> Richard's contract with Peacock had been purchased by Specialty Records owner Art Rupe, who also owned the publishing company that bought Richard's songs . Specialty's deal with Richard was typical of most record companies's dealings with their artists . </P> <P> "Tutti Frutti" provided the title for one of the earliest books about the development of rock and roll and pop music from the 1950s, Nik Cohn's "Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom" (1969). In 2010, the US Library of Congress National Recording Registry added the recording to its registry, stating that the hit, with its original a cappella introduction, heralded a new era in music . </P> <P> Combining elements of boogie, gospel and blues, the song introduced several of rock music's most characteristic musical features, including its loud volume and vocal style emphasizing power, and its distinctive beat and rhythm . The beat has its roots in boogie - woogie, but Richard departed from its shuffle rhythm and introduced a new distinctive rock beat . He reinforced the new rock rhythm with a two - handed approach, playing patterns with his right hand, with the rhythm typically popping out in the piano's high register . The song's new rhythm became the basis for the standard rock beat, which was later consolidated by Chuck Berry . </P> <P> In 2007, an eclectic panel of renowned recording artists voted "Tutti Frutti" number one on Mojo's The Top 100 Records That Changed The World, hailing the recording as "the sound of the birth of rock and roll ." The song is #43 in Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time . In April 2012, Rolling Stone magazine declared that the song "still has the most inspired rock lyric on record ." </P>

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