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{{Infobox musical artist | | Name = Fats Domino || Img = Fats_Domino018.JPG || Img_capt = Fats Domino in concert in France, 1992. || Img_size = || Landscape = || Background = solo_singer| Birth_name = Antoine Dominique Domino| Alias = Fats| Born = | Died =| Origin = New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America || Instrument = Piano
[R&B
Rock and Roll
Piano blues
Boogie-Woogie || Years_active = [1949 in music – 1999 in music| Label = Imperial Records, ABC Records, Mercury Records, Broadmoor Records, Reprise Records, Sonet Records, Warner Bros. Records, Toot Toot Records| Associated_acts = || URL = || Current_members = Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ], 1928) is a classic R&B and rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist. He was the best-selling African-American singer of the 1950s and early 1960s. Domino is also a pianist with an individualistic bluesy style, showing stride piano and Boogie-woogie (music) influences. His congenial personality and rich accent have added to his appeal.

Biography Domino was born on February 26 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana. He first attracted national attention with "The Fat Man (song)" in 1949 on Imperial Records. This song has been credited by some as being the first rock and roll record, featuring a rolling piano and Domino doing "wah-wah" vocalizing over a fat back beat. The record, a re-working of "Junker's Blues" by Champion Jack Dupree, was a massive hit, selling over a million copies and peaking at #2 on the Billboard R&B charts. It has been estimated that Domino has sold in excess of 110 million records.

Domino then released a series of hit songs with producer and co-writer Dave Bartholomew, saxophonists Herbert Hardesty and Alvin Tyler and drummer Earl Palmer. Other notable and long-standing musicians in Domino's band were saxophonists Reggie Houston, Lee Allen (musician), and Fred Kemp, who was also Domino's trusted bandleader. Domino finally crossed into the popular music mainstream with "Ain't That a Shame" (1955), which hit the Top Ten, though Pat Boone characteristically hit #1 with a milder Cover version of the song that received wider radio airplay in a racially segregated era. Domino would eventually release 37 Top 40 singles, including "Whole Lotta Loving" and "Blue Monday (Fats Domino song).

His 1956 uptempo version of the 1940 Vincent Rose, Al Lewis & Larry Stock song, "Blueberry Hill (song)" reached #2 in the Top 40, was #1 on the R&B charts for 11 weeks, and was his biggest hit. Blueberry Hill sold more than 5 million copies worldwide in 1956-57. The song had earlier been recorded by Gene Autry, and Louis Armstrong among many others.

Fats appeared in two films released in 1956: Shake, Rattle & Rock!{{cite web].{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049263/|title=The Girl Can't Help It|publisher=IMDB|accessdate=2006-11-01--> On December 18, 1957, Domino's hit, "The Big Beat," was featured on Dick Clark (entertainer) American Bandstand. Domino was a huge star in Jamaica and can be considered a father of reggae music along with Louis Jordan. The well known "upbeat" style of guitar in reggae can be directly traced to his piano playing.

Domino continued to have a steady series of hits for Imperial through early 1962, including the 1960 "Walkin' to New Orleans," written by Bobby Charles. Twenty-two of his Imperial singles were double-sided hits -- that is, both the A-side and the B-side of the single charted (i.e., 44 songs). After he moved to ABC-Paramount Records in 1963, however, Domino's chart career was drastically curtailed. He had a hit with 1963 "Red Sails In The Sunset," but by the end of 1964, the British Invasion had changed the tastes of the record-buying public, and Domino's chart run was over.

Despite the lack of chart success, Domino continued to record steadily until about 1970, and sporadically after that. He also continued as a popular live act for several decades. He was furthermore acknowledged as an important influence on the music of the 1960s and 1970s by some of the top artists of that era; Paul McCartney reportedly wrote the Beatles song, "Lady Madonna," in an emulation of Domino's style.

Domino did manage to return to the "Hot 100" charts one last time in 1968. Ironically, it was with a cover song of The Beatles' "Lady Madonna," which appeared at exactly #100 for two consecutive weeks.

In the 1980s, Domino decided he would no longer leave New Orleans, having a comfortable income from royalties and a dislike for touring, and claiming he could not get any food that he liked anyplace else. His induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and an invitation to perform at the White House failed to persuade Domino to make an exception to this policy. He lived in a mansion in a predominantly working-class Lower 9th Ward neighborhood, where he was a familiar sight in his bright pink Cadillac (automobile). He makes yearly appearances at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and other local events. Domino was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #25 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

When Hurricane Katrina was approaching New Orleans in August 2005, Domino chose to stay at home with his family, due to his wife's poor health. His house was in an area that was heavily flooded. He was thought to be dead, with someone spray-painting a message on his home, "RIP Fats. You will be missed." This was shown in news photos. On September 1, Domino's agent, Al Embry, announced that he had not heard from the musician since before the hurricane had struck.

Later that day, CNN reported that Domino was rescued by a United States Coast Guard helicopter. His daughter, Gospel music singer Karen Domino White, identified him from a photo shown on CNN. The Domino family was then taken to a Baton Rouge shelter, after which they were picked up by JaMarcus Russell, the starting quarterback of the Louisiana State University football team, and Fats' granddaughter's boyfriend. He let the Dominos stay in his apartment. The Washington Post reported that on Friday, September 2, the Dominos had left Russell's apartment, after sleeping three nights on the couch. "We've lost everything," Domino said, according to the Post story.{{cite web], work to gut and repair Domino's home and office had begun.

Domino was the first artist to be announced as scheduled to perform at the 2006 Jazz & Heritage Festival, although he was too ill to perform and was only able to offer the audience an on-stage greeting. Domino also released an album Alive and Kickin' in early 2006 to benefit the Tipitina's Foundation, which supports indigent local musicians. The title song was recorded after Katrina, but most of the cuts were from unreleased sessions in the 1990s.

On January 12, 2007 Fat Domino was honored with OffBeat Magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Best of the Beat Awards held at House of Blues in New Orleans. Mayor C. Ray Nagin declared the day "Fats Domino Day in New Orleans" and presented Fats Domino with a signed declaration. OffBeat publisher Jan Ramsey and WWL-TV's Eric Paulsen presented Fats Domino with the Lifetime Achievement Award. An all-star musical tribute followed with an introduction by the legendary producer Cosimo Matassa. The Lil' Band O' Gold rhythm section, Warren Storm, Kenny Bill Stinson, David Egan and C.C. Adcock, not only anchored the band, but each contibuted lead vocals, swamp pop legend Warren Storm leading off with "Let the Four Winds Blow" and "The Prisoner Song," which he proudly introduced by saying, "Fats Domino recorded this in 1958.. and so did I." The horn section included Lil' Band O' Gold's Dickie Landry, the Iguanas' Derek Huston, and long-time Domino horn men Roger Lewis, Elliot "Stackman" Callier and Herb Hardesty. They were joined by Jon Cleary (who also played guitar in the rhythm section), Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, Irma Thomas, George Porter, Jr. (who, naturally, came up with a funky arrangement for "You Keep On Knocking"), Art Neville, Dr. John and Allen Toussaint, who wrote and debuted a song in tribute of Domino for the occasion. Though Domino didn't perform, those near him recall him playing air piano and singing along to his own songs.

Fats Domino returned to stage on May 19th, 2007 at Tipitina's at New Orleans, performing to a full house. A foundation has been formed and a show is being planned for Domino and the restoration of his home, where he intends to return someday. "I like it down there" he said in a February, 2006 CBS News interview.{{cite web

Business His career has been produced and managed since the 1980s by multimedia entertainment purveyor and music producer Robert G. Vernon. During Vernon's tenure, Domino's earnings increased 500%.

Since 1995, Vernon and Domino have been partners (with many other companies, such as Dick Clark Productions) in the Bobkat Music Trust. Bobkat Music is an entertainment group that manages the careers (some posthumous) of Domino, Randy Pringle (writer), and other artists.

Trivia

In 1999, National Public Radio included "Ain't That A Shame" in the NPR 100, in which NPR's music editors sought to compile the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century.
A play on his name is the name of the gospel music group :de:Fetz Domino, which means in mixed German language and Latin "Groove (popular music) for the Lord".
'50s blues singer Skinny Dynamo had a brief career.
Domino had 66 US Hot 100 chart hits. (James Brown had 99.)
Domino has always had strong links to The Beatles, who recorded a version of "When the Saints Go Marching In" in Germany, two years after Fats' version on Imperial Records. When they auditioned for Decca Records, one of their songs was another jazz standard in Domino's repertory: "The Sheik of Araby".
In his song "I Want to Walk You Home", Domino used the words "I want to hold your hand" which may have inspired Lennon and McCartney when writing their I Want to Hold Your Hand. In 1968 in music, the Beatles modelled their song, "Lady Madonna", on Fats Domino's style, combining it with a nod to Humphrey Lyttelton's 1956 in music hit "Bad Penny Blues", a record which Joe Meek had engineered. They also played some hits of the 1950s and early 1960s, including Domino's "Kansas City (song)", during the Let It Be (album) album sessions.
I Want to Walk You Home was used in two Public information films by the Irish Department of the Environment, highlighting the dangers of being distracted on roads.
Domino returned the compliment in 1970 in music by covering not only "Lady Madonna", but two other Beatles songs, for his Reprise Records Gramophone record Fats is Back. Since then, both John Lennon and Paul McCartney have recorded Fats Domino songs.
Chubby Checker (Ernest Evans) got his stage name as a play on Fats Domino's name.
He appeared in a commercial for a brand of plastic food-storage bag. Various people had been shown holding and shaking these bags filled with various food items (including an obviously unhappy kid saying "shake, shake, shake--your spinach!"). At the end, Domino appears, in front of his piano, with such a bag containing blueberries. He sings, "shake, shake, shake your blueberries--on Blueberry Hill!"

References in popular culture

In the popular 1970s sitcom Happy Days, set in the 1950s, lead character Richie Cunningham (played by Ron Howard (director)) would often sing "I found my thrill..." (the first line of Domino's "Blueberry Hill") in reference to pretty girls he dated or wanted to date.
The fictional girl band in the television series Rock Follies threatened to revolt if they had to sing "Blueberry Hill" one more time.
The American humor magazine Mad (magazine) ran a cartoon spread that included fictitious artists with similar name variations, such as "Pudgy Parcheesi".

Singles discography Nationally charted hits shown in bold. (Virtually all of Domino's singles of the 1950s and 60s charted regionally in the U.S. south, especially in New Orleans.)

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! colspan="3"| Chart Positions|-! width="60"| Billboard Hot 100! width="60"| US R&B! width="60"]

|-|Detroit City Blues|The Fat Man (song)|1950|(Imperial 5058)!!#2!|-|Boogie-Woogie Baby|Little Bee|1950|(Imperial 5065)!!!|-|Hide Away Blues|She's My Baby|1950|(Imperial 5077)!!!|-|Hey La Bas Boogie]|1951|(Imperial 5145)!!#9!|-|I'll Be Gone|You Know I Miss You|1952|(Imperial 5167)!!!|-|Goin' Home|Reeling And Rocking|1953|(Imperial 5231)!!#2!|-|Please Don't Leave Me|[The Girl I Love|La La|1955|(Imperial 5348)!#10!#1!#23|-|All By Myself|Troubles Of My Own|1955|(Imperial 5357)!!#1!|-|Poor Me||1955|(Imperial 5369)!!#1!|-||I Can't Go On|1955|"!!#6!|-|Bo Weevil||1956|(Imperial 5375)!#35!#5!|-||Don't Blame It On Me|1956|"!!#9!|-|I'm In Love Again||1956|(Imperial 5386)!#3!#1!#12|-||[My Blue Heaven (song)|1956|"!#19!#5!|-|When My Dreamboat Comes Home]||1956|(Imperial 5407)!#2!#1!#1|-||Honey Chile|1956|"!!#2!#29|-|Blue Monday (Fats Domino song)||1956|(Imperial 5417)!#5!#1!#2|-||What's The Reason I'm Not Pleasing You|1956|"!#50!#12!|-|I'm Walkin']|1957|(Imperial 5428)!#4!#1!#19|-|The Rooster Song|My Happiness//As Time Goes By//Hey La Bas (4 song EP)|1957|(Imperial 147)!!#13!#8|-|Valley Of Tears||1957|(Imperial 5442)!#8!#2!#25|-||It's You I Love|1957|"!#6!#2!|-|What Will I Tell My Heart||1957|(Imperial 5454)!#64!#12!|-||When I See You|1957|"!#29!#14!|-|Wait And See||1957|(Imperial 5467)!#23!#7!|-||I Still Love You|1957|"!#79!!|-|The Big Beat]||1958|(Imperial 5553)!#6!#2!#10|-||Coquette |1958|"!#92!#26!|-|Telling Lies||1959|(Imperial 5569)!#50!#13!|-||When The Saints Go Marching In]|1959|"!#51!!#18|-|I Want To Walk You Home]|1959|"!#17!#22!|-|Be My Guest]||1960|(Imperial 5675)!#6!#2!#19|-||Don't Come Knockin'|1960|"!#21!#28!|-|Three Nights A Week||1960|(Imperial 5687)!#15!#8!#45|-||Put Your Arms Around Me Honey] |I Just Cry|1961|(Imperial 5753)!#23!#18!#49|-|Let The Four Winds Blow|Good Hearted Man|1961|(Imperial 5764)!#15!#2!|-|What A Party||1961|(Imperial 5779)!#22!!#43|-|| Rockin' Bicycle|1961|"!#83!!|-|I Hear You Knocking]|1961|"!#30!!#41|-|You Win Again ||1962|(Imperial 5816)!#22!!|-||Ida Jane|1962|"!#90!!|-|My Real Name|My Heart Is Bleeding|1962|(Imperial 5833)!#59!#22!|-|Dance With Mr. Domino||1962|(Imperial 5863)!#98!!|-||Nothing New (Same Old Thing)|1962|"!#77!!|-|Did You Ever See A Dream Walking||1962|(Imperial 5875)!#79!!|-||Stop The Clock|1962|"!#103!!|-|Won't You Come On Back|Hands Across The Table|1962|(Imperial 5895)!!!|-|Hum Diddy Doo|Those Eyes|1963|(Imperial 5909)!#124!!|-|You Always Hurt The One You Love ]|1963|(Imperial 5959)!!!|-|One Night|I Can't Go On This Way|1963|(Imperial 5980)!!!|-|There Goes (My Heart Again)||1963|(ABC 10444)!#59!!|-||Can't Go On Without You|1963|"!#123!!|-|When I'm Walking (Let Me Walk)||1963|(ABC 10475)!#114!!|-||I've Got A Right To Cry|1963|"!#128!!|-|Red Sails In The Sunset (song)|Song For Rosemary|1963|(ABC 10484)!#35!#24!#34|-|I Can't Give You Anything But Love]|When I Was Young|1964|(Imperial 66016)!#112!!|-|Lazy Lady||1964|(ABC 10531)!#86!#34!|-||I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire]|Goodnight Sweetheart|1965|(Mercury 72463)!!!|-|What's That You Got?|It's Never Too Late|1965|(Mercury 72485)!!!|-|The Lady In Black|Working My Way Up Steady|1967|(Broadmoor 104)!!!|-

|Big Mouth|Wait 'Til It Happens To You|1967|(Broadmoor 105)!!!|-

|One For The Highway|Honest Papas Love Their Mamas Better|1968|(Reprise 0696)!!!|-

|[Lady Madonna]|Wait 'Till It Happens To You|1968|(Reprise 0775)!!!|-

|Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey|So Swell When You're Well|1969|(Reprise 0843)!!!|-

|Make Me Belong To You|Have You Seen My Baby|1970|(Reprise 0891)!!!|-

|New Orleans Ain't The Same|Sweet Patootie|1970|(Reprise 0944)!!!|-

|Sleeping On The Job|After Hours|1978|(Sonet 2168 -UK)!!!|-

|Whiskey Heaven| --|1980|(Warner Bros. Records 49610)!!!|-|}

Notes

Further reading

Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'N' Roll by Rick Coleman, Da Capo, 2006. 10-ISBN 0-306-81491-9

External links {| class="infobox sisterproject"| style="width:50px; height:67px;" | | style="padding-left:5px;" | Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Commons:Category:Fats Domino|}

Fats Domino on Rock & Roll Hall of Fame site
Domino's manager Bob Vernon's official website
Fats Domino discography (music city)
Vernon and Domino's Bobkat Music Trust
http://www.history-of-rock.com/domino.htm
http://www.bsnpubs.com/imperial/imperiala.html
http://www.geocities.com/shakin_stacks/fatsdomino.txt
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6675649.stm for Domino's return concert

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1142405984194440.xml

In 1999, National Public Radio included "Ain't That A Shame" in the NPR 100, in which NPR's music editors sought to compile the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century.
A play on his name is the name of the gospel music group :de:Fetz Domino, which means in mixed German language and Latin "Groove (popular music) for the Lord".
'50s blues singer Skinny Dynamo had a brief career.
Domino had 66 US Hot 100 chart hits. (James Brown had 99.)
Domino has always had strong links to The Beatles, who recorded a version of "When the Saints Go Marching In" in Germany, two years after Fats' version on Imperial Records. When they auditioned for Decca Records, one of their songs was another jazz standard in Domino's repertory: "The Sheik of Araby".
In his song "I Want to Walk You Home", Domino used the words "I want to hold your hand" which may have inspired Lennon and McCartney when writing their I Want to Hold Your Hand. In 1968 in music, the Beatles modelled their song, "Lady Madonna", on Fats Domino's style, combining it with a nod to Humphrey Lyttelton's 1956 in music hit "Bad Penny Blues", a record which Joe Meek had engineered. They also played some hits of the 1950s and early 1960s, including Domino's "Kansas City (song)", during the Let It Be (album) album sessions.
I Want to Walk You Home was used in two Public information films by the Irish Department of the Environment, highlighting the dangers of being distracted on roads.
Domino returned the compliment in 1970 in music by covering not only "Lady Madonna", but two other Beatles songs, for his Reprise Records Gramophone record Fats is Back. Since then, both John Lennon and Paul McCartney have recorded Fats Domino songs.
Chubby Checker (Ernest Evans) got his stage name as a play on Fats Domino's name.
He appeared in a commercial for a brand of plastic food-storage bag. Various people had been shown holding and shaking these bags filled with various food items (including an obviously unhappy kid saying "shake, shake, shake--your spinach!"). At the end, Domino appears, in front of his piano, with such a bag containing blueberries. He sings, "shake, shake, shake your blueberries--on Blueberry Hill!"

References in popular culture

In the popular 1970s sitcom Happy Days, set in the 1950s, lead character Richie Cunningham (played by Ron Howard (director)) would often sing "I found my thrill..." (the first line of Domino's "Blueberry Hill") in reference to pretty girls he dated or wanted to date.
The fictional girl band in the television series Rock Follies threatened to revolt if they had to sing "Blueberry Hill" one more time.
The American humor magazine Mad (magazine) ran a cartoon spread that included fictitious artists with similar name variations, such as "Pudgy Parcheesi".

Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'N' Roll by Rick Coleman, Da Capo, 2006. 10-ISBN 0-306-81491-9

External links {| class="infobox sisterproject"| style="width:50px; height:67px;" | | style="padding-left:5px;" | Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Commons:Category:Fats Domino|}

Fats Domino on Rock & Roll Hall of Fame site
Domino's manager Bob Vernon's official website
Fats Domino discography (music city)
Vernon and Domino's Bobkat Music Trust
http://www.history-of-rock.com/domino.htm
http://www.bsnpubs.com/imperial/imperiala.html
http://www.geocities.com/shakin_stacks/fatsdomino.txt
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6675649.stm for Domino's return concert

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1142405984194440.xml

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