Fats Domino

Fats Domino ( born February 26, 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana, was Antoine Domino ) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter of rock ' n' roll, rhythm and blues, the piano blues and boogie -woogie.

Biography

The singer, pianist and composer learned to play the piano by his brother in law Harrison Verrett. In an industrial accident at the factory where he has worked with 14 years ago, he nearly lost his finger. In 1948, he married his childhood girlfriend Rosemary Hall, with whom he raised them eight children.

Discovered Domino, who edited his piano in the boogie style in 1949 by producer and bandleader Dave Bartholomew, a former trumpeter with Duke Ellington, at a club in New Orleans, where he performed for 3 dollars a week. This gave him his first recording, The Fat Man, which developed after its publication in January 1950 one of the first million-seller of Rhythm & Blues and penetrated into the R & B charts to the second rank. This title was to be understood as self-irony, because Fats (ie "the Fat " ) brought even then severe obesity on the stage. Already this first single was the breakthrough for Domino and was the beginning of a more than ten-year recording career with Imperial Records, recorded almost exclusively in Matassas Cosimo Recording Studio in New Orleans.

The most successful period for Fats Domino were the 1950s, when he composed in collaboration with Dave Bartholomew and Lew Chudd, the head of the record company Imperial, a long list of hits and interpreted. The final breakthrough came in 1955 with Is not that a shame, and in 1956 was promoted to Blueberry Hill, which he performed for the first time at the legendary Ed Sullivan show in U.S. TV and Dominoes biggest hit of his career. Other hits were for example I'm in Love Again, I'm Walking to New Orleans, My Blue Heaven, Blue Monday and Whole Lotta ' Loving. The very famous Jambalaya was the cover of a country song by Hank Williams. With Blue Monday he appeared in the Hollywood comedy The Girl Can not Help It.

Because the broadcast from New Orleans radio broadcasts could be received with their frequently played tracks on Jamaica Domino, Fats Domino had a significant influence on Jamaican musicians whose style evolved just then.

And his expression hardly changed and groups like the Beatles and Rolling Stones certain the business, Dominos had record success after the mid- 1960s. Last notable success was the cover version of the Beatles - piece Lady Madonna 1968. As a live performer but he was asked until the 1990s, also on tour in Germany. The 1957 -released song I'm Walkin ' 1991 used in an Aral advertising and thus came again in the German charts.

Fats Domino is in a row with rock 'n' roll legends such as Little Richard and Chuck Berry. Domino was included in 1986 in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2003 into the Blues Hall of Fame.

In recent years, Domino moved increasingly into private life. Exception was an annual concert at the Music Festival in New Orleans. He let it be known to never want to leave his home town again. Hurricane Katrina dated 29 August 2005 Fats Domino, however, forced back into the public eye when he was rescued from the disaster area first reported missing, but later with the loss of a large part of his property. Was released in 2007 the album Goin ' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino, had been involved in the different rock sizes. Part of the profits from the sale of this album were used for the reconstruction of the house by Fats Domino in his beloved New Orleans.

The music did not let go: 19 May 2007 Domino gave a performance at Tipitina's, one of the most famous music venues in New Orleans. Two years later, on 30 May 2009, he showed up at the festival dedicated to him, The Domino Effect, was applied with the money for devastated by Hurricane children's playgrounds. Little Richard also occurred there and then prayed publicly with Domino and others present.

Recordings (selection)

  • The Fat Man, 1949, Imperial Records
  • Goin 'Home, 1952 Grammy Hall Of Fame Award 2002
  • Goin 'to the River, 1953
  • Is not that a Shame, 1955
  • I'm in Love Again, 1956
  • My Blue Heaven, 1956
  • Blueberry Hill, 1956
  • I Can not Go On ( Rosalie ), 1956
  • Blue Monday 1957
  • I'm Walkin ', 1957
  • Whole Lotta Loving, 1959
  • I Want to Walk You Home 1959
  • Be My Guest 1959
  • Walking to New Orleans, 1960
  • My Girl Josephine, 1960
  • It Keeps Rainin ', 1961
  • Jambalaya ( on the Bayou ), 1962
  • There Goes (My Heart Again ), 1963, ABC Paramount
  • Red Sails in the Sunset, 1963
  • I Do not Want to Set the World on Fire 1964
  • Lazy Lady, 1964
  • Lady Madonna, 1968, Reprise Records
  • Make Me Belong to You, 1970
  • Sleeping on the Job, 1978, Polydor
  • Whiskey Heaven, 1981, Warners
  • My Toot Toot ( with Doug Kershaw ), 1985, Toot Toot Records
  • The Big Beat 2006

Discography

Albums

Tributes

  • 2007: Goin ' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino

Compilations

Radio plays

Radio ORF OE1 February 12, 2013 21:00 to 22:00 "Category 5: How I rescued Fats Domino from Hurricane Katrina. " By David Zane Mairowitz http://oe1.orf.at/programm/328337

TV shows

BRalpha February 24, 2013 23:20 "Fats and his Cats - Sound of Domino The Rolling Fifties. . " Tribute concert in 1989, to mark the 85th birthday of Fats Domino on TV. http://www.br.de/fernsehen/br-alpha/programmkalender/br-alpha106~_date-2013-02-24_-386356369a606d300bc8f64203d13a7e270d793a.html

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