[Morgana]

RIP FATS DOMINO

[beaversmom]

He was still alive!?!

[Neoliberalnot]

Isn’t it amazing that a fat black man sold that many records back in the horribly racist 1950s?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Yet Keith Richards goes on

[Red Badger]

I guess he found his thrill on Blueberry Hill.................Thanks for the memories, Fats, Rest in Peace and ROCK AND ROLL!.......................

[bgill]

Ain’t that a shame. He was ready, packed his suitcase and was walkin’ to the river to his blue heaven.

[uncbob]

Listened to Fats on the Black Radio stations ( Going to the River )back in 53 before he was played on the major ones

But Chuck Berry was bigger than he was IMHO

Actually Berry was shunned by the black audiences as too country

BUT the first Rock and Roller was Hank Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZeDVUuRhrw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lza3NVH6Ig

[equaviator]

I’ve always liked his version of Lady Madonna and love the way he plays piano. RIP Mr. Domino.

[thepatriot1]

I assumed he died in like 1972

[ExNewsExSpook]

Fats was one of the all-time greats; truly one of the founding fathers of rock and roll.

But the BBC is wrong; the first rock-and-roll record was Ike Turner’s Rocket 88, produced by another legend, Sam Phillips, in early 1951.

[Leep]

You broke my heart when you said goodbye.
Aint that a shame..my tears fell like rain.

[Impala64ssa]

Another music great has been called home. RIP Fat man.

[Parley Baer]

I always liked him.

[Gay State Conservative]

A pioneer....a true classic.

[fella]

Fats you did good.

[N. Theknow]

Saturdays at the movies used to be Monsters double features one week. Tarantula, Crab Monster, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dracula, Mummy, Werewolf, etc.

Sci-Fi double feature another week

Western/war double features another week.

Rock and Roll double features another week where “Those kids” would rebel against the town/school adult fuddie-duddies and play their music and do their dancing only to see the fuddie-duddies relent in the last scenes and start dancing with “Those kids.”

These usually featured Bill Haley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Everly Brothers and other early rockers.

All with a Flash Gordon or Batman or Rocketman serial and Looney Tunes cartoon or 3 Stooges skit.

For $.25 cents and a dime for popcorn and a Coke.

[Deplorable American1776]

RIP Mr. Domino... Prayers to the Domino family....

[Kriggerel]

I wonder what Pat Boone has to say?

If it weren’t for Fats, and Jim Crow radio, Pat would never have had a career.

[jch10]

I really liked his music. He seemed like a nice man too.