Dorothy La Bostrie
Dorothy La Bostrie ( born May 18, 1928 in Rayland, Kentucky; † November 4, 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia; occasionally Labostrie LaBostrie or written ) was an American songwriter index rhythm and blues, rock ' n ' roll and gospel. Her biggest success was the involvement in Tutti Frutti by Little Richard in 1955.
Dorothy La Bostries father Amos came from a Creole family from New Orleans, Louisiana, and went with his second wife to work in the mining town of Rayland in Kentucky. After an accident at work, the young family moved to Mobile, Alabama, where La Bostrie grew up. 1951 visited La Bostrie first time New Orleans to search for her father's relatives, they soon found the first and second degree burns in her step- brother and some aunts. She remained in the city and first worked as a housemaid and operation.
In the famous music clubs in the Rampart Street La Bostrie heard the former sizes of rhythm and blues like Amos Milburn, Bull Moose Jackson and Louis Jordan, but also the local heroes Paul Gayten, Larry Darnell and Roy Brown. In addition to choral singing and some lyric experiments during their time at school in Mobile La Bostrie had no active experience as a musician.
In September 1955 Bumps Blackwell sought as a producer of Specialty Records via a radio call by experienced songwriters for his first recording sessions with Little Richard. La Bostrie imagined in this booked J & M Recording Studio by Cosimo Matassa and was commissioned to defuse the slippery text of Richard's Tutti Frutti immediately. Years later La Bostrie claimed in an interview with Jeff Hannusch the entire authorship of rock ' n' roll classic in itself. Richard Dorothy La Bostries I'm Just a Lonely Guy On the same day took on, which eventually appeared as a B-side of Tutti Frutti. Following this success placed La Bostrie nor Rich Woman for Li'l Millet at Specialty, but could not compete with their refusal to allow label boss Art Rupe to transfer the copyright of their compositions entirely to the label's own publishers, against other songwriters with it one-time payments in the hundreds of dollar range were content.
Joe Ruffino of Ron Records and Ric Records of the songwriter finally gave the opportunity to work for the artist Tommy Ridgely and Chris Kenner. In addition, let La Bostrie her neighbor Johnny Adams get the song I Will not Cry to introduce him Ruffino and Adams ' career to launch with. She showed up in 1959 also responsible for Do not Mess With My Man Irma Thomas Young. When working for Ron and Ric La Bostrie learned the studio musician Edgar Blanchard along with the group The Gondoliers and the tenor saxophonist Lee Allen know, the musicians of his time often booked were with many contacts to the music scene in New Orleans. Finally, the songwriter quarreled with Ruffino in the dispute over outstanding royalties.
In the 1960s, La Bostrie New Orleans remained still get some time by adopting contract work for Matassas White Cliffs Publishing Company. In 1970 he published their final composition on a commercial media with Mickey Mouse Boarding House of Walter Washington on Scream Records. After an accident in the 1970s, La Bostrie moved back to New York. She died on November 4, 2007, during a holiday trip to Atlanta and left behind two daughters, four grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and great-grandson of one.
La Bostrie refers to her life's work of " several hundred songs, of which 27 were recorded at least once. " According to the BMI under their name a total of 28 compositions are registered. Inspiration for their songs they picked up from their everyday surroundings. So they processed snapped phrases of conversations as well as spontaneous observations, which she recorded and then expanded into songs. Tutti Frutti, however, remained their only really successful hit, a good living enabled her alone through regular royalties.