What's your favorite Fats Domino song?

[red dog 1]

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Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr....(February 26, 1928 - October 25, 2017)

Fats learned to play the piano from his brother-in-law, the jazz guitarist Harrison Verrett.
Even after his success, he continued to live in his old neighborhood.
His large New Orleans home was roomy enough for his 13 children, but he still preferred to sleep in a hammock outside.
His first record, "The Fat Man," made in late 1949 for Imperial Records, sold 1 million copies by 1953. It is widely considered to be the first rock-and-roll record to achieve this feat.
Fats Domino himself did not define his work as rock and roll.
"It wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans," he said.
By the end of his career, Fats Domino was credited with selling more records than any other 1950s rocker except Elvis Presley.

R.I.P. Fats...You will be missed!

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	Whole Lotta Loving
	0 (0%)
	Ain't That a Shame
	1 (11%)
	Blueberry Hill
	1 (11%)
	I'm Walkin'
	1 (11%)
	Walking to New Orleans
	4 (44%)
	Blue Monday
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	I'm Gonna' Be a Wheel Someday
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	I Want to Walk You Home
	2 (22%)
	My Blue Heaven
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	Let the Four Winds Blow
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[delisen]

1. Has everyone heard Vladimir Putin's rendition of My Blue Heaven

on You Tube?

Gives a little insight into the teenaged years of the future KGBer growing up behind the Iron Curtain.

[MiltonBrown]

2. My favorite is 'Whole Lotta Loving' but everything he did was superb.

Fats was a man of great style, class and talent. Back in the 1950s Fats was always the headliner at the Alan Freed shows no matter who else was on the bill. And the whole lot of them Chuck Berry, Every Bros, Frankie Lymon and Teenagers etc all followed Fats as he lead them in a New Orleans style parade singing 'When The Saints Go Marching In' to close the show.

Thanks for your fine tribute red dog. Indeed Fats will be missed!

[red dog 1]

4. I saw Fats Domino at an Alan Freed show in 1956 or 1957 in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium

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and there were at least 25 acts on the bill, including:

- Fats Domino
- Jackie Wilson
- The Platters
- The Drifters
- The Coasters
- Buddy Holly
- Eddie Cochran
- The Big Bopper
- Ritchie Valens
- Chuck Berry
- Paul Anka
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- The Chantels
- The Bobbettes
- The Shirelles
- Danny and the Juniors
- Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers
- The Del Vikings
- Lavern Baker
and more
(There were so many acts on the bill that each one only got about 5 or 6 minutes to play)

(I wish I still had the program for that show..listing all the acts + photos)

There were several movies made about Alan Freed, including "American Hot Wax" (1978) and
"Mr. Rock & Roll: The Alan Freed Story" (1999), which I've seen at least 20 times

[MiltonBrown]

7. An Alan Freed Show is exactly where I'd go if I had a time machine and one trip only!

Sounds like you may have seen 2 separate shows since Spector was just a kid or maybe a member of the Teddy Bears (To Know Him is to Love Him) back in '56 or '57 and only the Shirelles recorded in the 50s from that list of girl groups.

Perhaps you saw the Chantels or the Bobbettes or the Delicates or even the Teddy Bears. They all fit the '50s timeline and were quite similar to the early 60s girl groups.

Regardless the shows you saw were priceless. It's a tragedy that there is so little live footage (or even much live audio concert material) from that era. I read where Fats traditionally closed an Alan Freed show as the headliner and lead the entire bill on a New Orleans style parade. Do you remember this happening when you saw them?

[red dog 1]

9. I only saw one show, but you're right about the Phil Spector girl groups not being there

(It was a long time ago, and I was only 10 years old).
The Shirelles were there, along with The Bobbettes, who were the first black rock & roll "girl group" and The Chantels, who were the second.

I'm not sure if the Teddy Bears were there or not, but "To Know Him is to Love Him" is one of my all-time favorite songs.
I never knew that Phil Spector was a member of the Teddy Bears.

Thanks for catching that.

[red dog 1]

5. Whole Lotta Loving is now a poll option

It's also up on You Tube

[hibbing]

3. I'll provide a quote instead

To paraphrase, he was asked about meeting The Beatles, and he replied, I didn't meet The Beatles, they met me.

Peace

[Miles Archer]

6. The hilarious exchange between Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Bo Diddley in "Hail Hail Rock & Roll"

Similar to the quote you posted, they were discussing Pat Boone covering Little Richard's music.

He said something like "He's singing about Long Tall Sally and he ain't never been back in the alley!"

[MiltonBrown]

8. Footage of Boone in the 50s talking about recording 'Tuitti Fruitti' and others is just as funny!

He comes along thinking he's gonna be Bing Crosby but the record companies want him to record this new craze rock-n-roll stuff which he clearly had no knack for nor interest in. Somehow his versions of 'Ain't That a Shame' and 'Tuitti Fruitti' outsold the originals. I think Richard finally outsold pitiful Pat with 'Long Tall Sally'.

[red dog 1]

10. LOL

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I never saw "Hail Hail Rock & Roll" but it's going on my wish list.

I think I once saw an interview with Little Richard where he's talking about turning on the TV and seeing a Disney cartoon using one of his songs, and little ducks were coming out of Donald Duck's mouth.

(He later worked for Disney)

[DFW]

11. Here's Fats Domino, Ray Charles and Jerry Lee Lewis

A summit meeting of Southern keyboardists!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xc62vt