Charles Connor

Charles Connor was an American drummer, best known as a member of Little Richard's band. Richard's shout of "a-wop bop-a loo-mop, a-lop bam-boom" at the beginning of "Tutti Frutti" is said to be a reference to Connor's drum rhythms. James Brown described Little Richard and his band, with Connor as the drummer, as "the first to put funk into the rhythm." From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)