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Cosimo Matassa's studio
North Rampart Street, New Orleans
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A back room behind a record shop where Fats Domino, Little Richard and Professor Longhair cut their sides. Tutti Frutti was recorded here in 1955. The sound of the room is on much of what became rock and roll.
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