Fats Domino - I Want To Walk You Home

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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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[animal03181989]

uhh yeah it is. My grandpa has pictures of him and other people dancing dirty to music like this taken by a cheap old box camera that he used to own. Hes got some wild stories behind each and every one of those pictures. Just listen to the riffs man, its there.

[John1948FourD]

@animal03181989 I thought you meant the lyrics. It sounds to me like your grandpa and his friends were sexual rather than the song. LOL

[cat3347]

this song is in rock and chips

[gogitta25]

my great-grandmother would always talk about how this random dude would sing this to her everyday as she walked to the bus stop in 1959...eventually they went on a date and the rest is history...here i am today lol

[komatman]

every day x

[sexbombash]

rock and chips brought me ere lol

[luvtinaturnerlots]

old fashioned romance

[Mikelovision]

@gogitta25 Sadly if a man were to do that today, they would be called a stalker and be filed for sexual harassment or something =/ lol

[MrJustinbama]

i 32and i inheritated ths album.one day i played it and i heard this song.great album

[sapphire60s]

@gogitta25 Oh, I just love your story. How cool, he was persistent and in the end it paid off for him.  Hope your great grandparents had a very happy life. Cheers.

[vexonish]

TUNE!!!!!!!!!!!



[CallumBig]

rock and chips!

[doorsfan44]

this is another great song of his , I just love him

[ONENIGGER2ANOTHER]

@gogitta25 Yor Great-Grand Pop must have had it going on for sure!