Description
Release Date: 2024
Label: Jasmine Records
Track List
- 1 Blues Jump the Rabbit
- 2 The Sun Is Shining
- 3 The Fat Man’s Hop [Instr]
- 4 Lawdy Miss Clawdy
- 5 Mailman Blues
- 6 Chee Koo Baby
- 7 Oo-Ee Baby
- 8 Mailman Boogie
- 9 Swanee River Hop [Instr]
- 10 Oke-She-Moke-She-Pop
- 11 Honey Hush
- 12 Crawdad Hole
- 13 Fat’s Frenzy [Instr]
- 14 Barrel House [Instr]
- 15 Show Me the Way
- 16 Down the Road
- 17 Blue Monday
- 18 The Rocks
- 19 Jump Children
- 20 Cat Music
- 21 Single Life
- 22 You Told Me
- 23 Wondering Why
- 24 Yours Truly
- 25 I Must Go on
- 26 Be Faithful
- 27 Sail on Little Girl
- 28 I’m Convicted of Love
- 29 I’m Ready to Play
- 30 Hard Times (The Slop)
- 31 Good News
- 32 You’re Going to Be Sorry
Notes
One of the cornerstone figures of R&B and R&R, ANTOINE “FATS” DOMINO recorded ‘The Fat Man’ – the first million-selling Rock & Roll record – in December 1949, at the tender age of twenty-one. His distinctive rolling piano style proved irresistible, and he was soon being copied by half the piano-players in New Orleans. This compilation features him as a sideman, accompanying other artists, with the exception of four powerful instrumental rarities from Fats’ own early catalogue, which spiritually feel as though they belong in this company. The key people in Fats’ career were trumpeter/bandleader/arranger/songwriter/producer Dave Bartholomew, with whom he wrote most of his hits, and producer/engineer Cosima Matassa, in whose modest recording studio they were recorded. Other artists featured herein include Big Joe Turner, Lloyd Price, Smiley Lewis, Pee Wee Crayton and Roy Brown.
