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Mar 7, 2016 · Jambalaya like you never heard it before. Featuring Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ron Wood, Paul Shaffer and Sugar Blue. Background vocals and p...
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- John Fuhrmann
Oct 27, 2017 · Domino’s signature hit was 1956’s “Blueberry Hill,” a remake of a song first cut by Gene Autry. “Fats was the perfect cat to do ‘Blueberry Hill,’ ” says Jerry Lee Lewis. “His ...
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FATS DOMINO LIVE
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- “The Fat Man” (1950) This rollicking two minutes and 37 seconds exploded out of New Orleans as a mix of Delta blues melody and boogie-woogie piano, of sexual energy and free-floating flights of jazz-touched vocal fancy, of Domino’s hard-pounding piano rhythm and a young Earl Palmer’s steady backbeat – in essence, one of the first rock & roll records in existence.
- “Goin’ Home” (1952) Domino scored his first R&B Number One with this forlorn cut, a farewell to a troublesome lover co-written with Alvin E. Young. “Goin’ home tomorrow/Can’t stand your evil ways,” he sings against a hard-swinging half-time blues groove.
- “Ain’t That a Shame” (1955) In the summer of 1955, “Ain’t That a Shame” became Domino’s first pop smash, after a string of R&B hits. Pat Boone’s whitebread cover (which Boone allegedly wanted to be titled “Isn’t That a Shame”) reached Number One, but as Jerry Wexler put it, “Fats Domino is still the thing.
- “Blueberry Hill” (1956) “Blueberry Hill” was first recorded in 1940 by several artists, including Gene Autry and Glenn Miller. But Domino drew on the 1949 Louis Armstrong version when he had run out of material at a session.
May 23, 2009 · Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Paul Shaffer, Ron Wood....live on stage in New Orleans. A MUST own DVD for any lover of rock n roll...by the 4 ori...
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Oct 28, 2017 · In 1986, the same year all three were inducted as part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's inaugural class, Fats, Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles recorded it together live in New Orleans as ...
