1 posted on
10/30/2017 10:46:41 AM PDT by
Twotone
To: Twotone
I love watching Fats Domino play the piano. Compare him to other piano players like Billy Joel, Elton John, Carole King.
They are all great, but Fats seems to LOVE his instrument. He gets it to do EXACTLY what he wants it to do, on a shared time table. Carole beats it into submission (check "One Fine Day"). Elton has his well-trained to do tricks, but Fats is in love.
2 posted on
10/30/2017 10:50:48 AM PDT by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: Twotone
4 posted on
10/30/2017 10:53:41 AM PDT by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: NewJerseyJoe
5 posted on
10/30/2017 10:54:57 AM PDT by
NewJerseyJoe
(Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
To: Twotone
‘Blueberry Hill’ was written as a big-band jazz tune and recorded that way many times. Big hit for Glenn Miller in 1940. Gene Autry did it in a movie the next year.
7 posted on
10/30/2017 10:57:53 AM PDT by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: Twotone
Great story - who knew - click on link to hear Putin singing ... (I’m not making this up) ...
8 posted on
10/30/2017 10:58:27 AM PDT by
11th_VA
(Kudos to President Trump for denouncing ALL violence)
To: Twotone
In my opinion, Fats D. would have had a longer career with better management. How do you market someone like that, during those times? I don’t know if he spoke well, maybe he preffered the music speak for him. He would have done well with a Las Vegas type gig, where it would be a Legacy theme all the time.
To: Twotone
10 posted on
10/30/2017 11:17:22 AM PDT by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
To: Twotone
In one of these discussions, someone said Fats was more of a boogie-woogie player originally. I don’t know. A bio would be interesting. I know though, I bought his hits years after he recorded those originally.
At a used book sale, I got Connie Francis’s autobiography, I haven’t really been interested enough to get into it deeply but I enjoy a lot of her songs from back then. She’s called a “queen of rock and roll”.
She even has a number of imitators doing her songs, tribute shows.
To: Bigg Red
13 posted on
10/30/2017 11:32:23 AM PDT by
Bigg Red
(Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
To: Twotone
From Mark Steyn: "Blueberry Hill, The biggest hit of a prodigious talent who died a few days ago at the age of 89."Pardon the vanity Reply, because I must have been in the first group of "disk jockeys" to play that Fats Domino rock & roll hit.
Yes, I was a teen-age disk jockey in the late fifties! Only made it to radio as a writer but I did buy Blueberry Hill (the last record I had to buy, Imperial Records provided the rest of Domino's 45 RPM recordings) for my high school dance jobs. The first item of interest on my interesting life.
14 posted on
10/30/2017 11:54:26 AM PDT by
Ace's Dad
(BTW, "Ace" is now Captain Ace. But only when I'm bragging about my airline pilot son!)
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