| Let's Play Fats Domino | ||||
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| Released | September 1959 | |||
| Genre | Rock n roll | |||
| Label | Imperial | |||
| Producer | Dave Bartholomew | |||
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This Is Fats is a 1959 studio album by American rock and roll pianist Fats Domino, released on Imperial Records.
A contemporary review in Billboard highlighted how many hits the album had and its strong New Orleans sound. [1] The New Rolling Stone Album Guide scores this release alongside all of Domino's Imperial albums as 4.5 out of five stars. [2] The editorial staff of AllMusic Guide scored this album 3.5 out of five stars, with reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine characterizing it as a "terrifically entertaining listen" and summing up his review "maybe it's not the best Fats Domino album ever, but as it's playing it's hard to imagine listening to anything better than this". [3]
All songs written by Dave Bartholomew and Fats Domino, except where noted.
Side one:
Side one Vinyl Lovers re-release bonus track:
Side two:
Side two Vinyl Lovers re-release bonus track:
Adapted from the liner notes from the Vinyl Lovers re-release:
"You Left Me" (recorded in New Orleans, Louisiana, between June and December 1953)
"Ain't It Good" (recorded in New Orleans, Louisiana, between June and December 1953)
"Howdy Podner" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, between October and November 1955)
"Stack & Billy" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1957)
"Would You" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1957)
"Margie" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 1958)
"You Done Me Wrong" (recorded in New Orleans, Louisiana, between June and December 1953)
"Hands Across the Table" (recorded in Los Angeles, California, October 1958)
"When the Saints Go Marching In" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, between June and November 1958)
"Lil' Liza Jane" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, between June and November 1958)
"I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Some Day" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, between June and November 1958)
"Ida Jane" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 25, 1956)
"I Want to Talk You Home" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 18, 1958)
"So Long" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, between October and November 1955)
New Orleans rhythm and blues is a style of rhythm and blues that originated in New Orleans. It was a direct precursor to rock and roll and strongly influenced ska. Instrumentation typically includes drums, bass, piano, horns, electric guitar, and vocals. The style is characterized by syncopated "second line" rhythms, a strong backbeat, and soulful vocals. Artists such as Roy Brown, Dave Bartholomew, and Fats Domino are representative of the New Orleans R&B sound.
David Louis Bartholomew was an American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger, and record producer. He was prominent in the music of New Orleans throughout the second half of the 20th century. Originally a trumpeter, he was active in many musical genres, including rhythm and blues, big band, swing music, rock and roll, New Orleans jazz, and Dixieland. In his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he was cited as a key figure in the transition from jump blues and swing to R&B and as "one of the Crescent City's greatest musicians and a true pioneer in the rock and roll revolution".
"Blue Monday" is a song originally, written by Dave Bartholomew, first recorded in 1953 by Smiley Lewis and issued as a single, in January 1954, on Imperial Records. The single, with a slow-rocking beat, features an instrumental electric guitar solo by Lewis.
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"Lawdy Miss Clawdy" is a song by New Orleans singer/songwriter Lloyd Price that "grandly introduced The New Orleans Sound". It was first recorded by Price in 1952 with Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew during his first session for Art Rupe and Specialty Records. The song became one of the biggest selling R&B records of 1952 and crossed over to other audiences. "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" inspired many songs and has been recorded by a variety of artists.
Although it is billed as a Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges album, Side by Side is a 1959 album mostly under the leadership of Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington's alto saxophonist for many years. Ellington only appears on three of this album's tracks. The album places Hodges at the fore, backing him with piano by Ellington or Billy Strayhorn and providing other accompaniment by jazz figures like Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Jo Jones. The album, a follow-up to Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues, has remained perpetually in print.
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster is a studio album recorded on October 16, 1957, by Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster, accompanied by a rhythm section led by Oscar Peterson.
Please Please Please is the debut studio album by the Famous Flames under the billing "James Brown and His Famous Flames", featuring the first album of recordings during Brown's long career. It includes the group's first two hit singles, the title track and "Try Me", along with all the non-charting singles and b-sides he had recorded up to the time of the album's release. The album was reissued in 2003 by Polydor on a Japanese 24-bit remastered import CD packaged in a miniature LP sleeve.
"I'm Walkin'" is a 1957 song by Fats Domino, written together with frequent collaborator Dave Bartholomew. The single was Domino's third release in a row to reach No. 1 on the R&B Best Sellers chart, where it stayed for six weeks. It also broadened the singer's crossover appeal, peaking at No. 4 on the pop singles chart. The prominent saxophone solo was played by Herbert Hardesty. Lee Allen was also on sax, Frank Fields on bass, Earl Palmer on drums, and Walter "Papoose" Nelson on guitar.
Junker Blues is a piano blues song first recorded in 1940 by Champion Jack Dupree. It formed the basis of several later songs including the 1949 "The Fat Man" by Fats Domino and the 1952 "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" by Lloyd Price. The song is about a drug user's conflict with life and the law, makes references to cocaine, "needles", "reefers", and life in the penitentiary, and contains admonishments against the use of hard drugs.
Herbert Hardesty was an American musician who played tenor saxophone and trumpet. He is best known for his association with the New Orleans pianist Fats Domino and the producer Dave Bartholomew, beginning in 1948. He released six 45-rpm records as Herb Hardesty between 1959 and 1962. His first CD of these recordings, together with others made but not issued in 1958, were released worldwide in July 2012 by Ace Records as The Domino Effect.
Ernest J. McLean was an American rhythm and blues and jazz guitarist.
Walter Charles Nelson Jr., known as Walter "Papoose" Nelson, was an American R&B guitarist, best known for playing with Fats Domino, and on many of his hit records.
Mary Jewel King was an American rhythm and blues singer in New Orleans.
Charles "Hungry" Williams was an American rhythm & blues drummer, best known for the innovative and influential technique he used on numerous recordings that came out of New Orleans in the 1950s and 1960s.
This Is Fats Domino! is the third album by R&B pianist and vocalist Fats Domino. The album was released by Imperial Records in December 1956.
Cornelius Jessie Coleman, also called "Tenoo", was an American R&B drummer best known for playing with Fats Domino's band and on many of his hit records.
Walter Daniel Lastie, also known as "Popee", was an American rhythm & blues and jazz drummer from the musical Lastie family who played and recorded with many of New Orleans' leading R&B musicians.
