Description
*This is a Vinyl LP*
Release Date: 2016
Label: Vinyl Lovers
Track List
Side A
- You Left Me
- Ain’t It Good
- Howdy Podner
- Stack And Billy
- Would You
- Margie
- You Done Me Wrong (bonus track)
Side B
- Hands Across The Table
- When The Saints Go Marching In
- Ida Jane
- Lil’ Liza Jane
- I’m Gonna Be A Wheel Someday
- I Want To Walk You Home
- So Long (bonus track)
Notes
This release includes Domino’s splendid LP, Let’s Play (originally issued by the Imperial label in 1959), which was long unavailable on vinyl. The album is just another of Fats’ many achievements from the late 1950s, and is a terrifically entertaining listen. Like most of his early albums, this was assembled from a variety of sessions and contains a couple of hit singles. In this case, they are the cheerful “Margie,” a rollicking “When the Saints Go Marching In,” the jubilant yet defiant “I’m Gonna Be a Wheel Someday,” (previously popularized by Bobby Mitchell), and the sweet “I Want to Walk You Home.” The rest of this LP also reaches similarly high standards. There are the slow blues “You Left Me,” the rip-roaring “Ain’t It Good,” strong versions of both “Ida Jane” and “Lil’ Liza Jane,” and a variation of Lloyd Price’s “Stagger Lee” with “Stack and Billy.”
In addition to the original album, this Vinyl Lovers collector’s LP also includes 2 bonus tracks from the same period: “So Long” and the great “You Done Me Wrong.”
PERSONNEL:
FATS DOMINO: vocals and piano, plus:
SIDE 1 (1, 2) & (7):
Walter Nelson (gr), Billy Diamond (b, on side 1, tracks 1 & 2),
Frank Fields (b, on side 1, track 7), Cornelius Coleman (d),
Robert “Buddy” Hagans (ts, on side 1, track 1), Lee Allen (ts,on side 1, tracks 2 & 7)
Wendell Duconge (as, on side 1, tracks 1 & 2).
Recorded in New Orleans, Louisiana, between June and December 1953.
SIDE 1 (3) / SIDE 2 (7):
Ernest McLean (g), Frank Fields (b), Cornelius Coleman (d),
Lee Allen or Herb Hardesty or Buddy Hagans (ts), Clarence Ford (as).
Recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, between October and November 1955.
SIDE 1 (4):
Ernest McLean (g), Frank Fields (b), Cornelius Coleman (d),
Lee Allen or Herb Hardesty or Clarence Ford (ts).
Recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1957.
SIDE 1 (5):
Walter Nelson (g), Frank Fields (b), Earl Palmer (d),
Lee Allen or Herb Hardesty (ts).
Recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1957.
SIDE 1 (6):
Walter Nelson (g), Jimmie Davis or Red Callender (b), Cornelius Coleman (d),
Herb Hardesty, Plas Johnson (ts), Wendell Duconge (as), Clarence Ford (bs).
Recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 1958.
SIDE 2 (1):
Walter Nelson (g), Jimmie Davis or Red Callender (b), Cornelius Coleman (d),
Herb Hardesty (ts), Plas Johnson (bs).
Recorded in Los Angeles, California, October 1958.
SIDE 2 (2, 4 & 5):
Ernest McLean (g), Jimmie Davis (b), Allen Toussaint (p, on side 2, track 5) Cornelius Coleman or Earl Palmer (d), Herb Hardesty, Clarence Ford (ts),
Wendell Duconge (as), Plas Johnson (bs).
Fats Domino doesn’t play piano on side 2, track 5.
Recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana,
between June and November 1958.
SIDE 2 (3):
Justin Adams, Ernest McLean (g), Frank Fields (b), Charles Williams (d),
Lee Allen, Herb Hardesty (ts), Dave Bartholomew (tp).
Recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 25, 1956.
SIDE (6):
Walter Nelson or Roy Montrell (g), Jimmie Davis (b), Cornelius Coleman (d),
Buddy Hagans, Clarence Ford (sax).
Recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 18, 1958.
