Other seemingly very simple Domino songs hit listeners in powerful ways for very different reasons. “Goin’ Home,” a song that Fats wrote about his and he band members’ homesickness for New Orleans, ...
“Blueberry Hill” was written by three songwriters: Vincent Rose, who composed the music, and Larry Stock & Al Lewis, who wrote the lyrics. It was published in 1940, some sixteen years before Fats ...
Dave Bartholomew, the hard-driving New Orleans trumpeter and bandleader who co-wrote and produced most of Fats Domino’s hits, died Sunday at a local hospital. He was 100. Bartholomew and Domino formed ...
When a friend of Fats Domino‘s invited filmmaker Joe Lauro to hang out at Domino’s New Orleans house in the early 2000s, he knew he had to make a film about the rock & roll architect. More than a ...
Some gems from the life’s work of people remembered in obituaries in The New York Times. By Daniel J. Wakin Mr. Bartholomew, a producer, arranger, composer, trumpet player and bandleader, was best ...
Antoine “Fats” Domino, the iconic New Orleans singer-songwriter whose piano-playing sound and smiling face entertained generations of audiences around the world and introduced an unmistakable rock and ...
Two years after a harrowing rescue from Hurricane Katrina, music legend Fats Domino headlined a 2007 benefit concert for New Orleans hometown, performing hits to an adoring audience. The special ...
Tune into NOLA Radio and hear selected tracks: Listen now Fats Domino performs at Tipitina's in 2007 From the moment of his dramatic rescue from the flooded Lower 9th Ward, Antoine "Fats" Domino ...