Fats Domino - Hello Josephine

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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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[ftjax]

I saw his show in Las Vegas in 1971 & he came on stage pushing the piano like a car..ha,ha

He was just a "Jolly Mon"...

[jbmathieu02]

!Je l'écoute avec toujours autant de plaisir depuis 1961 ! ! !avec BUDDY HOLLY, il représente ma jeunesse et je les aime toujours!!!!!

[msdebmoore]

Fats almost drowned during Hurricane Katrina. He had to be rescued from his home in New Orleans, and he slept on his nephew's couch in the athletic dorm at LSU.

[pristinebob]

will miss this man when he passes such talent , he will be missed by many

[sssalasmusic]

I can't live without Fats Music!!!!!!!

[Sorage55]

This is just good music, i'm 16 years old, and this is my favorite kind of music, from one of my favorite artists.

[terryhow1]

it didnt seem a good fairground until you heard fats in the background his music never dates mister nice guy his was one of the first lps I bought with my first weeks wages