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  • GREAT, YES

  • HIj is echt wel dik he manne....

  • Fucking awesome!

  • Hard to believe this was considered "revolutionary" at the time. Sure does rock though.

  • the first rock n roll song THE FAT MAN '49 BY Fats Domino

  • The man is a f****** legend

  • The theme music to a whole generation 

  • Love It !!!!

  • Mafia 2 xDD

  • The Fat Man, 1949, the first true rock n roll song ever.

    Love me some Fats!

  • Cee Lo Green dreams of being as cool as Fats

  • @geowar42 One shouldn't have such dreams or they will be destine to feel disappointment.

  • watchin watchin !! <3

  • What a man.

  • I'm 13 and Fats Domino is my FAVOURITE artist of all time!!!!! :)

  • he is one of my faverate singers

  • ahh i was hoping he would do that wahwah thing instead of the sax!! oh well can't complain, he just brightened up my day!

  • A song from 1949 that still sounds just as edgy and fantastic in 2011? Only Fats Domino.

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  • this song is so amazing, i love this kinda music, i have to move when i hear this i can not stay stil :p Why has music changed from something awesome like this to the crap we have to listen to now^^

  • Did you know that Fats really recorded the first Rock and Roll song...in 1949." The Fat Man". Fats really started it all. All hail Fats Domino!!!!

  • yes, you are right... I love him, too. And I am six years old..can hardly reach the keyboard..

  • Fats Dominator

  • In 1949 Jerry Lee had already played the piano for 7 years and being self-taught from 7 years old he had to more or less found the style of his own. With some inspiration from Moon Mullican and Hank Williams.

  • let's fats <3

  • Jerry Lee Lewis was influenced by Moon Mullican and Hank Williams. Fats first record came out in 1949(The Fat Man) and at that time Jerry already more or less had found his own style. Jerry have heard Ray Charles when he played at one of the local joints, but not he was that inspired as such.

  • @kosteskab Jerry Lee Lewis was 14 in 1949, I don't think he had found his style so early.

  • sing it fats 

  • there has to be a special place in heaven for people who use their talent to make so many people so happy for so many years. God Bless you Fats!

  • Unless you've seen them live, you can't begin to appreciate just how loud Dave Bartholomew plays that trumpet. 

  • Now that's real rock n roll! Rock on Fats!!

  • hee so cute x) and thats genius! what he does with the trumpet :D!!

  • While everybody was calling Elvis the King of Rock n Roll Elvis was calling Fats Domino the King

  • i love how happy he looked

  • 4 Years after Japans bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima...

    This classic was made, 1949! WOOHOO!

  • Mafia II :)

  • <3 <3 he influenced Lloyd Price and Joe Strummer and aaaahhhhh hes so awesomeeeeee

  • Fats makes me think of a quote from the bluesbrothers movie evey time i hear his songs. "This music is powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline"

  • listen to the norwegian black met. band singing The Fat Man. Go to: " Lobodomized Fats Domino" and be supriced !

  • @gullhjertet yep, but it´s LOBOTOMIZED (not Lobodomized) and we are not a black metal band!

  • The Father of Rock & Roll.....unbeatable,thank you Fats,Murray in Scotland.

  • einfach endlos GEIL!!!

  • WAH WAH WAH, WAH WAH WAH WAH, WAH WAH WAH WAAAAAAAAAAHH WAAAH WAH WAAH

  • redemption is upon us

  • now.. That's a big pinky ring

  • i first heard this song when i was 15, and im becoming 18 in september. i loved fats, i love bo diddley even more --- good music is not copyrighted to the senior citizens! there is one thing that i always want to point out when i see comments about how music in the past is gr8 and how they hate the new music without any idea about it. just look at those great athletes, like grant hill, who alter his game to fit in the game in late career. be one of those rather than to be an Allen Iverson.

  • I Love Fats Domino, such a happy guy, full of life. Yet somehow I have to think he's more than 200lbs. It's pretty crazy to think that back in the 40's and 50's they considered 200lbs to be fat.. and now you see blimps walking around everywhere you go. Oh well. Great tuneage.

  • This great man has been Rockin longer than any artist alive.. He' s an original, a pioneer, and a class act like no other. Truly one of the Kings of Rock and Roll

  • this song is consideres the first rock and roll recording.....wow !!!!....well.... tjhe original one.....

  • LOVE FATS DOMINO GREAT *****

  • This is impossible to watch without smiling, no matter how hard you try... 0:17 ^_^

  • yeahhhhhhhhhhh

  • Does anyone know of any Fats tour dates this year? I've been wanting to see him for years!!

  • Fats was 82 on 26th Feb this year - this song was released in 1949 - can you believ that!! awesome!!

  • Wonderfull!

  • Is this a recent performance? He's as great as ever :) How old is Fats now?

  • @kht777 fats is now 82

  • @ozzyrockz wow, and he's still rocking :) thanks!

  • @kht777 i guess u could say that he only1 or to dates a year now

  • 82.

  • The Fat Man rules! Rock on, Antoine!

  • I shook his sweaty hands in Bensheim, Germany, he's really a big shot, one of the first rockers, maybe the first ever. Very smpathic good man, he laughted as me as if he was 14

  • Great song, love Fats.

  • great performer and a beautiful man.. love this song.

  • Chuck berry was the father of rock and roll!!

  • yes, you're right, i love it...and i'm 14!!! ;D

  • @blacksheep6509 Guess what, nobody gives a fuck how old you are. What the fuck are we supposed to do? bake you a goddamn cake and have a party to show you how proud we all are of you?

  • @lanceyoakem Hmm Replying that way to a post that's a year old. LMAO Just stupid.....

  • @bsmithbum yeah but like you-- it cracked me up too ...hey I'm 67 who gives a flying rats ass

    old guy

  • @lanceyoakem You have a very filthy mouth! Why don't you go back to school and learn how to converse with people, instead of your dog! IF, you are married, I hope you don't let your kids hear you talk like this, but then, maybe you just don't care, and in that case, you're nothing but a loser, pal!

  • The father of Rock 'n' roll. A wonderfull artist!

  • Great music never ages and this is proof.

  • Fats is playing "Junker Blues" in this one. He has been influenced by a whole lot of New Orleans pianists. Smiley Lewis being a big one.

  • Jerry Lee Lewis says nobody influenced him but I'm sure fats domino was one of the artists that he heard and influnenced him years before he became famous. Many of the great artists of popular music in the beginning were African American, and we owe a debt of gratitude to artists like Mr. Domino for their contributions and talent!!

  • @charger19691 Actually, no, he had listened to no non-gospel music previously.

  • @charger19691 African American made the best music around that time but now they are making hip-hop crap all about how fucked up the world is now and about bitches, drugs and violence. The is no soul in it.

  • @sandmaster117 It's true & sad but music reflects your environment. They're telling their story just like they did years ago. If you have a f&*!%^ up life...that's what you sing about! Unfortunately...record companies don't want to promote soul music, cuz there are lots of soul artists & don't get played! It's not our fault (African Americans) they don't promote artists that are musical. It's a struggle for all of us!

  • @onehartonevoice It's against federal law for recording companys to promote artists or send out copies of their music to radio, TV or DJ's. Only artists inside the USA can promote themselves. That is why big stars hire & sign contracts with publicists who have developed contacts inside major radio & TV stations & talk shows that book guests. They also help get your picture and story inside the right magazines.

    Artists who do not invest a portion of their income in promotion disappear.

  • @charger19691 What, Jerry Lee Lewis said that, not only Fats have obviously influenced him but Little Richard also, that's a bullshit statement from him.

  • @charger19691 Amen to that !!

  • One of the 1st founding fathers of Rock n Roll! Long live Mr. Domino! He has almost as many hits as Elvis! What an amazing career and a true southern gentleman. A great American original!

  • it doesn't look so old as '49...not true

  • that is his first record, but, this is not that performance. Hard to tell when as the great Fat Man never seems to age. But, obvious after color TV.

  • no guy, it looks as '50 or 60'... cant be so old, he is older. oh fuck!

  • think a little harder... youll get there :)

  • play it fat man

  • sing that shit antoine!! long live fats!

  • the man is the best rock and roll i like his rings

  • In music critic/intellectual terms this song is R&B. However this is also one of the arguably first Rock&Roll songs recorded. There is debate about which was the actual first, tradition says it's the Turner/Brenston "Rocket 88" tune, but really there are many R&B songs of the late 40's that display the classic as we understand it now in 20/20 hindsight RocknRoll qualities. All that matters is that Fats is so so so amazing and his music is absolutely the greatest.

  • manila is flooded pray for them

  • Can it possibly get any better than this? The Fat Man singing his song, "The Fat Man". Righteous!

  • One of the true greats. Regarding the eternal "Rock'nRoll" debate, here is the quote to the media from Fats Domino himself ( circa 1955 ) - "What you people call Rock'Roll, I have been playing in New Orlaons for the past 15 years" - says it all really.

  • where did you read that quote

  • another quote from Big Joe Turner: "Rock and Roll is just a different name for the same type of music i been singing all my life"

  • Wow fats domino is like a smiling buddha...bless him!

  • This is a better cut than the record and it's dynamite to see him playing those riffs. The Fat Man rules!

  • these two cats may have disseminate the term but Freed and Bill Haley certainly did it soooooo gooood Hail Hail Rock and Roll

  • FATS IS GREAT

  • love this shit

  • Woweeee, Yes, yes,yes !!!!!!!!

    Fats is the cats ass with this one.

  • FATS FOREVER!!!

  • GO FATS GO!!

  • I love him and this song! Really would love to be able to play the piano part!!

  • No, Alan Freed did not invent R&R in Cleveland in the 1950s. No, he did not coin the phrase, either. Listen to Ike Turner/Jackie Brenston's Rocket 88 from 1951. If that's not Rock-n-roll, I'll eat my turntable.

  • Although Alan Freed is widely given credit for coining the term, "Rock 'n Roll," it was used in the song "Rockin & Rollin Mamma" in 1939, in the lyrics of a Buddy Jones song "I love the way you rock & roll," in the 1944 Arthur Crudup song "Rock me Mamma," and in a 1946 review of a record, Billboard magazine used the term. Freed and Bill Haley certainly helped disseminate the term though.

  • Not only didn't Freed coin the phrase R&R, he didn't write the songs he is given credit for writing. He did popularize the music to a wider (and whiter) audience and for that he is remembered.

  • This was the first true Rock n roll record, it really was the finished article in 1949. Obviously it had mutated from earlier forms, but this was it.The Bass lines, piano triplets, even the tempo, after this all the big artists covered the BIG BEAT sound. I can even hear the intro to Thattle Be The Day and Fats was still having huge hits in the early sixties, using that EXACT sound. Even Elvis called him the true King of Rock N Roll, what a legend!

  • "This was the first true Rock n roll record" "Rock The Joint" by Jimmy Preston and "Boogie At Midnight" by Roy Brown, for example, were recorded before this was.

  • And your seriously trying to tell me that they sound like Long Tall Sally or Tutti frutti, or any other mid fifties hit record branded "Rock N Roll". Do they balls! They sound as old as the hills, even their instrumentation is closer to a Hank Williams sound than Rock N Roll, The Fat Man however is THE finished article my friend. I rest my case compadre. Now listen to the beat and feel the vibe, oh yes.

  • And your seriously trying to tell me that they sound like Long Tall Sally or Tutti frutti, or any other mid fifties hit record branded "Rock N Roll".

    Yes. I'm not sure what you're trying to say about the instrumentation.

  • This is good stuff. I got to meet Fats in Vegas, after his show. It was a long time ago, but I'll never forget it.

  • Brilliant mate id love to meet him.

  • so fucking cool....just....just awesome..

    excellent.

  • great song

  • you cant knock the FAT MAN! im 29 and my was grown up to fats. my dad played him all the time. good stuff!

  • ive loved this man, since i was 15.

    im 47 now

    born and bred in england.

    and we all love you fats

  • About what year was this video from?

  • Happy, happy 81st from Josephine & i. Getting to meet you at Tips will always be a high point in my life - what a beautiful, humble man w/ SO MUCH talent!!!! Mant more years, Mr Domino_ I know I'm not the only person in the Big Esy who played your song as we returned to the city after Katrina & Gustav. Thank you for joy in tough times.

  • 2/26/09 HAPPY 81st BIRTHDAY FATS...YOU ARE STILL LOVED MY SO MANY...THANKS FOR ALL OF THOSE FANTASTIC MUSICAL MEMORIES.

  • I love Fats. He always seems so happy and really enjoying his show.

    Does anybody know if he's still touring? If so do you know if he's coming to England atall?

    Thanks for uploading, it's great!

  • Get BIZI :-)

  • That piano break at 1:24 is something else.

    Wicked vid.

  • check out the bling on that guy!

  • well i am fat man

  • for uruguay good

  • Credits should go to Mr. Dave Bartholomew as well.

    Not only a great trumpet player, but without him there would be no Fats Domnio.

  • Oh yeaaaah God bless the veteran! one of the best blowers ever...New Orleans :)

    Thank you for reminding ppl about Bartholomew.

  • Is that him on trumpet? Fantastic.

  • no he is on the piano....

  • I was responding to a comment about Dave Bartholomew, not Fats.

  • One of his earliest songs (and on his first LP) - there's definite influences from Professor Longhair in there, so if you like this check out Fess too.....

  • F - Fantastic

    A - Amazing

    T - Top notch

    S - Sensational

    D - Delightful

    O - oh my god

    M - magnificant

    I - incredible

    N - no word here to describe him

    O - ran out of words here too

  • 10/10!

  • What is R&B...? THIS is real R&B!!! Fantastic timeless song. I hope to see Fats over here in Europe.

    Peace to you all!

  • this is not r&b!!!, this is the first rock and roll ever!!!

  • FATS, you have my heart.. You ARE HEART -- and SOUL.. Bless you!

    Thanks for the best of music.

  • Yes! Yes! Can you believe he began his career in the forties? I don't know why Elvis gets so much hype - just listen to this guy!

  • man, now THIS is a BAND!!! thanks for posting this - my own tape of this show skips. what a wonderful performer!! the hand shots at the keyboard are precious stuff... if you can get your hands on this (fats & friends), GET IT!!!! talk about steady awesome good time rocknroll music & top musicianship... the heart is all in the right place. :)

  • Speaking of which, which year was this?

  • 1985, L.A. Consert with Rick Nelson, who died short time later. In this consert Fats and Rick sings " I´m Walking " together !

  • duhh,,who cares the man can rock,,would u do that good at 77,,he survived Katrina had to be rescued was missing for a time then daughter saw him on TV being lifted out by helicoptor,,born 1928 in New Orleans,He recently made new CD Called "I'm Alive And Kicking" if anyone is interested,,all proceeds go to help with the "Tiptina Foundation" which can be found through Google search,, love tihs old man happy to see him on Utube as he may not be around too much longer,,, respect stop with negatives

  • How the hell can he play piano so well with that dirty big fat ring on his finger!?

  • Cuz he's THAT pimp.

  • 1-don't get all the back and forth shit between 2 guys that has nothing to do with Fats, or why it's all on here..who gets the last word wins?

    2- This was rhe first Fats song I heard I think his early music was his best..before all the orchestra and strings you could actually hear him play piano

  • NIce song by a great rock and roller. Don't understand why some people stray so much from the topic when they respond to Youtube videos, etc.

  • Chubby Checker called himself after his hero, Fats Domino. Chubby =Fats and Checker = Domino. It's better than being called plain Ernest Evans when you're trying to sell records.

  • This is one of two kings of rock and roll !!..

  • Sold more records in the 50s than everyone but Elvis. A legend.

  • Yes ! killing song !!!

  • love that cheeky grin on 0:19! a true legend

  • Thankyou for this,

    hot hot hot hot.......Fats show down!!!!

  • get up all in their BUM FUM

  • fats domino is crazy, i guess you have to be to come up with something this good. this rocks.

  • HAHAHAHAHAHA FAT MAN JIGGLES

  • fats domino is one the reallest rock&roll stars ever.

  • dude, fats domino looks like kyle massey from That's so Raven!

  • my grandfather loves this song!!!! we were listening to it together, and he was just dancing it was cute i love old people!!!

  • i ended up only looking up fats cause i had a report to do, but now i really like his music! =3

    go fats!

  • This is REAL rock and roll for me !!..

  • Great back beat to this song!!

  • can´t believe you guys,...wtf! its your cultural heritage!!! Fats Domino was the next best selling RocknRoll artist to Elvis... Prince wouldnt be sounding like he does if didnt have had guys like BB King, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, etc etc etc making beautiful music,...

  • extraordinario fats eres uno de los pioneros del rock and roll junto con holly richard berry..alentaron a la banda mas famosa del mundo the beatles

  • COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

  • el que compuso la primera cancion de rock and roll, lo que pasaba es que era negro y gordo, gracias por el rock and roll, larga vida.

  • he is so sweet looking. i would have loved to have met him,i love his music, and the way he plays that piano is to die for, this is one of my favorite song, all though the piano is a bit quiet in the beging,but great video ,5 stars

  • Only recently have I discovered the Fat Man and........... What I was Missing!

  • Everything Fats does,every song he sings is a MUST!

  • The first rock and roll song ever recorded - in 1949!

  • Did you ever old man river the ravens 1947?

  • You bet it was. The record was recorded for Imperial Records in Cosimo Matassa's J&M studio on Rampart Street in New Orleans, Louisiana on Saturday, 10 December 1949. Thus began a living legend and his legendary songs and sound.

  • Do you know when he recorded "The prisoner song" and is it on any of his albums. I had it on an old 45, but have been unable to find it since. I think it was in '57.

  • Do you know when he recorded "The prisoner song" and is it on any of his albums. I had it on an old 45, but have been unable to find it since. I think it was in '57.

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    Sorry but I have no info on that particular number. If you type if Prisoner's Song" on WIKIPEDIA,there are references but none to Fats.

  • wasn't this a Champion Jack dupree tune called 'The Junkie'??

  • The Fat Man at his best. A national treasure. Thanks for posting this.

  • Fats Domino is Mr. Rock and Roll PERIOD

  • When I first heard this music in the mid 50's I thought it was Rock and Roll and I couldn't understand why other Rock and Roll records were so crap... Then I found out it wasn't Rock and Roll ... It was Rhythm and Blues! .. And I was Saved!!!!

    A1+++++ posting!