Artist: Fats Domino
Genre(s):
Rock
Retro
Other
Jazz
R&B: Soul
Blues
Discography:
Christmas Is a Special Day
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Best of Fats Domino
Year: 2006
Tracks: 30
8 O'clock Rock
Year: 2006
Tracks: 16
Legends of New Orleans
Year: 2003
Tracks: 20
Walking to New Orleans
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
The Gold Collection - CD 2
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
The Gold Collection - CD 1
Year: 2001
Tracks: 15
The Fat Man Sings
Year: 2000
Tracks: 20
Fats Is Back
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
De Beste Sangene Disc 2
Year: 1999
Tracks: 17
De Beste Sangene Disc 1
Year: 1999
Tracks: 18
They Call Me the Fat Man- The Legendary Imperial Recordings
Year: 1991
Tracks: 100
Sleeping on the Job
Year: 1979
Tracks: 9
Get Away With Fats Domino
Year: 1965
Tracks: 12
Fats on Fire
Year: 1964
Tracks: 12
What a Party
Year: 1961
Tracks: 12
Twisti'n The Stomp
Year: 1957
Tracks: 12
This Is Fats Domino
Year: 1956
Tracks: 12
They Call Me The Fat Man - Disc 4
Year:
Tracks: 25
They Call Me The Fat Man - Disc 3
Year:
Tracks: 25
They Call Me The Fat Man - Disc 2
Year:
Tracks: 25
They Call Me The Fat Man - Disc 1
Year:
Tracks: 25
The most popular exponent of the classic Fresh Siege of Orleans R&B healthy, Fats Domino sold more records than whatever former calamitous stone confect & mountain range star of the 1950s. His relaxed, lolling boogie pianissimo style and easygoing, warm vocals anchored a long series of national hits from the mid-'50s to the early '60s. Through it entirely, his bASIC coming rarely changed. He may non feature been one of early rock's most magnetic, innovational, or threatening figures, simply he was surely as shooting matchless of its about uniform.
Domino's offset i, "The Fatness Military man" (1949), is one of the heaps of tracks that have been consistently singled come out as a nominee for the number one rock & undulate disc. As far as Fats was interested, he was simply playing what he'd already been doing in Newly Orleans for age, and would go on to play and babble in reasonably a lot the sami fashion even after his music was dubbed "rock'n'roll & R&B charts, and sold a i g k copies. Just as of significance, it effected a vital partnership between Fats and Imperial A&R Dave Bartholomew. Bartholomew, himself a Domino's vaunter hits, co-writing many of them with Fats. He would also normally rent New Orleans academic term greats like Alvin Tyler on adolphe Adolphe Sax and Earl Palmer on drums -- musicians wHO were critical in establishing Freshly Orleans R&B as a distinguishable entity, playing on many former local recordings as well (including hits made in Newly Siege of Orleans by Georgia native Little Richard).
Domino didn't bilk over into the crop up charts in a big style until 1955, when "Ain't That a Shame" made the Top of the inning X. Rap Boone's cover of the Fats' thunder, going completely the way to telephone number one (Daniel Boone was besides bowdlerizing Little Richard's early on singles for pop hits during this clock time). Domino's long-range prospects weren't damaged, even so; between 1955 and 1963, he racked up an staggering 35 Top 40 singles. "Blueberry Mound" (1956) was believably his best (and best-remembered) soul; "Walk to Freshly Siege of Orleans," "Unscathed Lotta Loving," "I'm Walk," "Dreary Mon," and "I'm in Beloved Again" were as well huge successes.
Later on Fats left Imperial for ABC-Paramount in 1963, he would simply enroll the Top 40 one to a greater extent time. The surprise was not that Fats fell come out of style, only that he'd retained his popularity so long darn the essentials of his personal manner remained unchanged. This was during an earned run average, remember, when nearly of rock's biggest stars had their careers derailed by death or dirt, or were made to soften up their sound for mainstream wasting disease. Although an active agent performer in the ensuing decades, his vocation as an important creative person was basically o'er in the mid-'60s. He did stir up a bit of attention in 1968 when he covered the Beatles' "Lady Madonna" individual, which had been an obvious court to Fats' style.
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