Posted on 09/01/2005 6:53:33 AM PDT by Leg Olam
'Fats' Domino Missing By Roger Friedman Many of New Orleans' jazz luminaries haven't been seen since Katrina hit
'Fats' Domino Missing in New Orleans Thursday, September 01, 2005 By Roger Friedman
Before NBC, MTV, or anyone else puts on a telethon to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, they might want to explore some ancillary issues. To wit: New Orleans is a city famous for its famous musicians, but many of them are missing. Missing with a capital M.
To begin with, one of the city’s most important legends, Antoine “Fats” Domino, has not been heard from since Monday afternoon. Domino’s rollicking boogie-woogie piano and deep soul voice are not only part of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame but responsible for dozens of hits like “Blue Monday,” “Ain’t That a Shame,” “Blueberry Hill” and “I’m Walking (Yes, Indeed, I’m Talking).”
Domino, 76, lives with his wife Rosemary and daughter in a three story pink-roofed house in New Orleans’ 9th ward, which is now underwater. On Monday afternoon, Domino told his manager, Al Embry of Nashville, that he would “ride out the storm” at home. Embry is now frantic.
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This time I'm swimming to New Orleans
I'm swimming to New Orleans
I'm swimming to New Orleans
I'm gonna need two pairs of shes
when I get through swimming me blues
when I get back to N. O.
I've got my suitcase in my hand
now ain't that a shame.
I'm leaving here today
yes
I'm going back home to stay.
Yes
I'm swimming to N. O.
You used to be my honey
till you spent all my money.
No use for you to cry
I see you buy and buy
'cause I`m swimming to n. O.
I've got no time for talking.
I've got to keep on swimming.
N. O. is my home
that's the reason while I'm gone
yes
I`m swimming to N. O.
I'm swimming to N. O.
I'm swimming to N. O.
Sorry bout that. I'll be more careful in the future.
So true TommyDale. My thoughts are with Fats and his family as well as the hundreds in the same situation......famous or not.
Aaron Neville is good people, I'm sorry for his loss but so glad to know he and his family are safe.
BUMP
Dr. John had a gig in Minneapolis during the storm his next is 09/02/05 at
Frankenmuth, MI.
Oh, I hope he and family make it through. I loved his music and grew up with those great songs.
I'm just hoping that because of the lack of communication that they can't reach Fats and that he's truly OK. Perhaps he went to one of the shelters, like the Superdome, at the last minute.
Imagine a duet with Aaron Neville and Phoebe Snow. You'd think your speakers were cutting in and out.
FAts got into tax trouble years ago. He lived in the lower ninth ward, and his house is no doubt flooded out...
He might not be. :(
That's terrible news - I'm hoping and praying that Fats and family are OK.
I saw him for the first time in 1957, he was on tour with the "Shower of Stars", Chuck Berry and other black recording artists traveled in a bus by themselves and upon arriving in each city, they checked into rundown hotels where blacks were allowed to stay.
Meanwhile, the white recording artists who were on stage with them in each city, traveled in a bus for whites only and checked into hotels in the better part of each city.
It was all perfectly acceptable in those days, just fifty years ago. It was the music of Fats Domino and Chuck Berry that eventually would open the door to end discrimination.
Once their music was introduced to white audiences by the very first top forty radio stations - it was over.
More than any other thing, Rock n'Roll was the key to ending discrimation in the United States.
Let's pray and hope Fats Domino is OK.
As a child I grew up listening to 'Fats' on the 78 phono that my parents played over and over.
I see some sick folks in our midst here...their comments not withstanding.
My prayers for 'Fats' and his family.
Wikipedia, says he has been found and is ok..
That's awful
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