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"Wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom! His career was over by 1959, for Richard Penniman had denounced rock & roll as the devil’s work. But he had time to add a fistful of songs to his existing greatest hits. He sounded possessed (evil was actually the word he used), but Jesus! — he knew how to thrill. Standout tracks: “Tutti Frutti,” “Good Golly Miss Molly”"