Ya know ... very few musicians can do a live show and make their old songs sound even better than the original studio recordings. But, this performance is exceptional! BTW, that's Dave Bartholomew on the trumpet doing the "wa-wa-wa" that Fats originally sang? The drummer sounds to me like Earl Palmer. Who else is in the band here? They really do the song justice.
One of the 1st founding fathers of Rock n Roll! Long live Mr. Domino! He has almost as many hits as Elvis! What an amazing career and a true southern gentleman. A great American original!
This was the first true Rock n roll record, it really was the finished article in 1949. Obviously it had mutated from earlier forms, but this was it.The Bass lines, piano triplets, even the tempo, after this all the big artists covered the BIG BEAT sound. I can even hear the intro to Thattle Be The Day and Fats was still having huge hits in the early sixties, using that EXACT sound. Even Elvis called him the true King of Rock N Roll, what a legend!
Jerry Lee Lewis says nobody influenced him but I'm sure fats domino was one of the artists that he heard and influnenced him years before he became famous. Many of the great artists of popular music in the beginning were African American, and we owe a debt of gratitude to artists like Mr. Domino for their contributions and talent!!
One of the greatest ever, thanks for sharing. For myself Little Richard is the best ever and ever to be. But Fats, Hank Ballard Chuck Berry and Esquerita are the greatest Rock n Rollers that you can listen to.. Peace
I shook his sweaty hands in Bensheim, Germany, he's really a big shot, one of the first rockers, maybe the first ever. Very smpathic good man, he laughted as me as if he was 14
In 1949 Jerry Lee had already played the piano for 7 years and being self-taught from 7 years old he had to more or less found the style of his own. With some inspiration from Moon Mullican and Hank Williams.
Although Alan Freed is widely given credit for coining the term, "Rock 'n Roll," it was used in the song "Rockin & Rollin Mamma" in 1939, in the lyrics of a Buddy Jones song "I love the way you rock & roll," in the 1944 Arthur Crudup song "Rock me Mamma," and in a 1946 review of a record, Billboard magazine used the term. Freed and Bill Haley certainly helped disseminate the term though.
thats the one thing i said he was better than MJ at, but with songwriting, dancing and singing its with MJ, hes a double inductee in the songwriters hall of fame and the Rock and Roll HOF, hes TAPDANCED with the Nicholas bros. and got so much praise from James Brown, Jackie Wilson, Fred Astaire etc on dancing, and his tribute song to Sammy Davis Jr in 1989 recieved a HUGE amount of praise
Not only didn't Freed coin the phrase R&R, he didn't write the songs he is given credit for writing. He did popularize the music to a wider (and whiter) audience and for that he is remembered.
They call, they call me the fat man 'Cause I weight two hundred pounds All the girls they love me 'Cause I know my way around I was standin', I was standin' on the corner Of Rampart and Canal I was watchin', watchin' Watchin’ all these creole gals. Wah wah wah, wah wah Wah wah waaahhh wah wah wahh Wah wah wah, wah wah wah wah wah Wah wahwahhhh wah, wah wah wahh wah wah wah, Wh wah wah wah wah wah wah wah. I'm goin', I'm goin' goin' away And I'm goin', goin' to stay 'Cause women and a bad life They're carrying this soul away
"In 1949 Jerry Lee had already played the piano for 7 years and being self-taught from 7 years old he had to more or less found the style of his own. With some inspiration from Moon Mullican and Hank Williams." Boogie-woogie piano was a national fad throughout the 1940s. Freddie Slack's "Cow Cow Boogie" and Freddy Martin's "Bumble Boogie" were top ten pop hits, for instance. If he'd tried, Jerry Lee couldn't have avoided hearing boogie-woogie on the radio and at the movies from many dozens of pianists other than Moon.
i first heard this song when i was 15, and im becoming 18 in september. i loved fats, i love bo diddley even more --- good music is not copyrighted to the senior citizens! there is one thing that i always want to point out when i see comments about how music in the past is gr8 and how they hate the new music without any idea about it. just look at those great athletes, like grant hill, who alter his game to fit in the game in late career. be one of those rather than to be an Allen Iverson.
One of his earliest songs (and on his first LP) - there's definite influences from Professor Longhair in there, so if you like this check out Fess too.....
One of the first rock and roll songs... and still one of the greatest.
I love to see an artist smile while he makes others do the same!
Now, here's a man who certainly enjoys his work. :)
Oh man I LOVE this song. It drives a groove as big as a steam train. So SO cool.
Ya know ... very few musicians can do a live show and make their old songs sound even better than the original studio recordings. But, this performance is exceptional! BTW, that's Dave Bartholomew on the trumpet doing the "wa-wa-wa" that Fats originally sang? The drummer sounds to me like Earl Palmer. Who else is in the band here? They really do the song justice.
The drummer is Smokey Johnson, who played with Fats for many years. Look him up - he was great. czcams.com/users/results?search_query=smokey+johnson
Also one of the best ever. Such talent will never get back
I think that's the legendary saxman Lee Evans standing behind Bartholomew.
I love and admire this great piano player, singer and composer Fats Domino! God bless him forever!
The ridiculously lavish rings on his fingers are awesome. The best part is that they aren't ironic in any way, his fingers are priceless!
FATS, you have my heart.. You ARE HEART -- and SOUL.. Bless you!
Thanks for the best of music.
What a brilliant performance and a great song.
The Fat Man was my favorite Rock Legend. He was a true gentleman and LOVED his fans.
Hard to believe that I have been listening to Fats for almost 60 years.
The Fat Man, 1949, the first true rock n roll song ever.
Love me some Fats!
One of the 1st founding fathers of Rock n Roll! Long live Mr. Domino! He has almost as many hits as Elvis! What an amazing career and a true southern gentleman. A great American original!
i love how happy he looked
Poetry in motion. What a beatfiul site. Forever Fats ! Forever!
Hella kool groove from the MAN.
I Love Fats Domino!
He Makes me feel Good, That Smile! That Voice!
great performer and a beautiful man.. love this song.
my grandfather loves this song!!!! we were listening to it together, and he was just dancing it was cute i love old people!!!
This song makes my so happy, it sounds as straight forward as life should be.
Everything Fats does,every song he sings is a MUST!
The Father of Rock & Roll.....unbeatable,thank you Fats,Murray in Scotland.
Love it, this is full of love and joy.....
fats domino is one the reallest rock&roll stars ever.
I'm 13 and Fats Domino is my FAVOURITE artist of all time!!!!! :)
That piano break at 1:24 is something else.
Wicked vid.
The song could be from 1949 but is still the best song i ever heard!!!! Fats Domino is the best
Can it possibly get any better than this? The Fat Man singing his song, "The Fat Man". Righteous!
Yes ! killing song !!!
What is R&B...? THIS is real R&B!!! Fantastic timeless song. I hope to see Fats over here in Europe.
Peace to you all!
saw him live at the coliseum ball room in benld, illinois in june 1959.
The Master.
there has to be a special place in heaven for people who use their talent to make so many people so happy for so many years. God Bless you Fats!
One of the greatest art of the 50s and the 60s long live rock n roll
my fav for 65 years.love the man and his music.hope he is ok.thanx to Dave Bartholomew also.he deserves alot more credit than he gets.rip dave.
As of January 2017, Dave Bartholomew is 98 years old. He's not quite ready to R.I.P...
gee I read not to long ago that dave passed away. sorry
another quote from Big Joe Turner: "Rock and Roll is just a different name for the same type of music i been singing all my life"
E' da impazzire questo grande artista ascoltarlo ti da vita credo sia il numero uno in assoluto
This was the first true Rock n roll record, it really was the finished article in 1949. Obviously it had mutated from earlier forms, but this was it.The Bass lines, piano triplets, even the tempo, after this all the big artists covered the BIG BEAT sound. I can even hear the intro to Thattle Be The Day and Fats was still having huge hits in the early sixties, using that EXACT sound. Even Elvis called him the true King of Rock N Roll, what a legend!
Oh yes, yes, this is top quality music. :)
Thankyou for this,
hot hot hot hot.......Fats show down!!!!
One of the best ever
great song
the man is the best rock and roll i like his rings
God Blessed us with Fats Domino! Yes it's the Big Beat!
1:23 Hey..............I love you Fats, if you don't love Fats! ...........
What groove ! Quel groove. C'est un pur plaisir à écouter..
At 1:20 when Fats goes Hey............. it sends the troubles away!
Прекрасная музыка,великолепный исполнитель!!
Jerry Lee Lewis says nobody influenced him but I'm sure fats domino was one of the artists that he heard and influnenced him years before he became famous. Many of the great artists of popular music in the beginning were African American, and we owe a debt of gratitude to artists like Mr. Domino for their contributions and talent!!
he is one of my faverate singers
One of the greatest ever, thanks for sharing. For myself Little Richard is the best ever and ever to be. But Fats, Hank Ballard Chuck Berry and Esquerita are the greatest Rock n Rollers that you can listen to.. Peace
1985, L.A. Consert with Rick Nelson, who died short time later. In this consert Fats and Rick sings " I´m Walking " together !
einfach endlos GEIL!!!
Oh yeaaaah God bless the veteran! one of the best blowers ever...New Orleans :)
Thank you for reminding ppl about Bartholomew.
I shook his sweaty hands in Bensheim, Germany, he's really a big shot, one of the first rockers, maybe the first ever. Very smpathic good man, he laughted as me as if he was 14
GREAT, YES
this song is consideres the first rock and roll recording.....wow !!!!....well.... tjhe original one.....
In 1949 Jerry Lee had already played the piano for 7 years and being self-taught from 7 years old he had to more or less found the style of his own. With some inspiration from Moon Mullican and Hank Williams.
@hippie, Fats is doing well and in New Orleans. Just celebrated his 84th birthday.
I glad to hear that he is still alive. He's 84
Brilliant mate id love to meet him.
The Fat Man moves ... :-) das ist einfach stark ...
R.I.P [*]
Great song, love Fats.
Love this song. Love the fat man too. Canned heat recorded this song and changed a lyric to ...weigh 300 pounds...
Although Alan Freed is widely given credit for coining the term, "Rock 'n Roll," it was used in the song "Rockin & Rollin Mamma" in 1939, in the lyrics of a Buddy Jones song "I love the way you rock & roll," in the 1944 Arthur Crudup song "Rock me Mamma," and in a 1946 review of a record, Billboard magazine used the term. Freed and Bill Haley certainly helped disseminate the term though.
The first rock and roll song ever recorded - in 1949!
the first rock n roll song THE FAT MAN '49 BY Fats Domino
Wow fats domino is like a smiling buddha...bless him!
Belle chanson
0:18 Now that's a shredder's face \m/ RIP Fats
great!!!
ahh i was hoping he would do that wahwah thing instead of the sax!! oh well can't complain, he just brightened up my day!
The theme music to a whole generation
The Fat Man rules! Rock on, Antoine!
now.. That's a big pinky ring
Alles Gute, Fats...
thats the one thing i said he was better than MJ at, but with songwriting, dancing and singing its with MJ, hes a double inductee in the songwriters hall of fame and the Rock and Roll HOF, hes TAPDANCED with the Nicholas bros. and got so much praise from James Brown, Jackie Wilson, Fred Astaire etc on dancing, and his tribute song to Sammy Davis Jr in 1989 recieved a HUGE amount of praise
sei un grande
Did you know that Fats really recorded the first Rock and Roll song...in 1949." The Fat Man". Fats really started it all. All hail Fats Domino!!!!
Great
Not only didn't Freed coin the phrase R&R, he didn't write the songs he is given credit for writing. He did popularize the music to a wider (and whiter) audience and for that he is remembered.
A song from 1949 that still sounds just as edgy and fantastic in 2011? Only Fats Domino.
Cool
true musicians....but with sooouul...each and every one
They call, they call me the fat man
'Cause I weight two hundred pounds
All the girls they love me
'Cause I know my way around
I was standin', I was standin' on the corner
Of Rampart and Canal
I was watchin', watchin'
Watchin’ all these creole gals.
Wah wah wah, wah wah
Wah wah waaahhh wah wah wahh
Wah wah wah, wah wah wah wah wah
Wah wahwahhhh wah, wah wah wahh wah wah wah,
Wh wah wah wah wah wah wah wah.
I'm goin', I'm goin' goin' away
And I'm goin', goin' to stay
'Cause women and a bad life
They're carrying this soul away
Este quizas sea el primer rock and roll que se realizó, año 1949 " Fast Man" de Fast Domino
They wont ever make it like them anymore whatever they try! RIP Fats!
4 Years after Japans bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima...
This classic was made, 1949! WOOHOO!
"In 1949 Jerry Lee had already played the piano for 7 years and being self-taught from 7 years old he had to more or less found the style of his own. With some inspiration from Moon Mullican and Hank Williams." Boogie-woogie piano was a national fad throughout the 1940s. Freddie Slack's "Cow Cow Boogie" and Freddy Martin's "Bumble Boogie" were top ten pop hits, for instance. If he'd tried, Jerry Lee couldn't have avoided hearing boogie-woogie on the radio and at the movies from many dozens of pianists other than Moon.
i first heard this song when i was 15, and im becoming 18 in september. i loved fats, i love bo diddley even more --- good music is not copyrighted to the senior citizens! there is one thing that i always want to point out when i see comments about how music in the past is gr8 and how they hate the new music without any idea about it. just look at those great athletes, like grant hill, who alter his game to fit in the game in late career. be one of those rather than to be an Allen Iverson.
GO FATS GO!!
yes, you're right, i love it...and i'm 14!!! ;D
One of his earliest songs (and on his first LP) - there's definite influences from Professor Longhair in there, so if you like this check out Fess too.....
@kosteskab Jerry Lee Lewis was 14 in 1949, I don't think he had found his style so early.
Rest easy fats
cool
Woweeee, Yes, yes,yes !!!!!!!!
Fats is the cats ass with this one.
Hard to believe this was considered "revolutionary" at the time. Sure does rock though.
Amazing, he is one of the godfathers of Rock N' Roll! Will he come to Europe again sometimes? Greetings from Vienna, Austria