Petition Goes Live To Change Governor Nicholls Street To Cosimo Matassa Street
The following is an open letter to Mayor Cantrell and the City of New Orleans from Rob Florence who is urging the City to rename Governor Nicholls Street to Cosimo Matassa Street. To sign the petition and show your support, click here and here. Hello Mayor and City Council, as you and the City Council Street Renaming Commission work to remove Conf...
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Cosimo Matassa’s New Orleans studio recorded “Tutti Frutti” by Little Richard
“Little Richard rolled into Cosimo Matassa’s J&M Studio (1947-1956) at 840 N. Rampart in New Orleans and cut the epochal “Tutti Frutti” in the fall of 1955. Richard wailed “A wop bop a loo mop a lomp bomp bomp” and kicked off one of the first great wailers in rock history. In 1956’s Here’s Little Richard — his boogie-woogie piano stylings weren’t a...
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