Fats Domino - Darktown Strutters' Ball

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Antoine "Fats" Domino was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, on the 26th of February 1928. When he was a 7 year old kid, he learned piano from his ,much older, brother-in-law Harrison Verrett. His piano playing was influenced by boogie woogie pianists like Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis and his triplet piano style came from Little Willie Littlefield, who,by the way,lives in the Netherlands.

His first record was "The Fat man", recorded in 1949 and became a R & B hit in 1950 and a gold record in 1953. His cooperation with the bandleader Dave Bartholomew resulted in an almost endless chain of R & B and Top 100 hit records. He also played the piano on Lloyd Price's millionseller "Lawdy miss clawdy." Fats performed in 4 Rock & Roll movies, "The girl can't help it, "Shake rattle and rock", "Jamboree" and "The Big beat." This ended in 1963 with "Red sails in the sunset," by than Fats recorded for ABC-Paramount and the cooperation with Dave had ended. In the period 1949-1960 he had 23 million sellers, not less than 17 were co-written with Dave Bartholomew.

In 1955, with the arrival of Rock & Roll, Fats became also popular with the white audience starting with "Ain't that a shame." Lew Chudd, the owner of Imperial Records sold his record company to LIBERTY in 1963. At that time success faded a little and Fats signed a contract with ABC-Paramount, were he had a couple of hits. Later, in 1965, he had a very good live album on MERCURY and a couple of albums on REPRISE and SONET.

http://www.fatsonline.nl/fatsbio.html

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[Ilovecookies765]

My grandma used to dance to this in 1949 :)

[piketormenter]

My brother was a big blues fan and said in all his years the best live performer was Fats.

[Suevtres]

You are the man FATS .

[59cadcoupe]

Fats in STEREO !

[judyaosta]

many thanks for wonderful version of this song and equally entertaining video

[plappolog]

love it

[Corrie121]

One of my favourites from the 50's. Revives fond memories.

Thank you for sharing and thanks to sessnazx for sending.

[ArkRed1]

Notice Fats is saying, "The Downtown Strutters Ball" which works very well.

[elsandobottoms]

Thought I'd heard everything Fats did - but not this! He is a national treasure.

[whitefalcon64]

Any Fats sons sounds good !!