...footage from a 50's
American TV show. Boone, backed by a
variety show orchestra of
L.A. studio-musician types, sings his new
45 "Tutti Frutti", part of a campaign by the major labels to pre-empt the burgeoning popularity (among white
teenagers) of black
rhythm and blues artists. Compared to the
Dionysian Demigod's original, Boone, with his quaint sense of "rhythm", and
willful cluelessness vis-à-vis the song's content, created a masterpiece of Bad TV.