Another CD album from the Bear Family Records - Rock'n'Roll CD series - Rocks -

One of the true godfathers of rock 'n' roll music, Fats Domino was rocking before Haley, Elvis, Little Richard? or anyone!Absolutely definitive, full-length package of his alltime greatest recordings in pristine restored sound. Spectacular packaging with in-depth notes from his biographer? plus fabulous photos. With his 80th birthday in sight, attention will be focused on Fats Domino, and this is the package that has everything most fans want, programmed for ultimate listenability.

Fats Domino rocks? Well, of course he does. And he was rocking and rolling long before Elvis, Jerry Lee, Ricky, Bill Haley? or anyone else. Nineteen-forty-nine, in fact. That's when Fats Domino recorded The Fat Man, inaugurating a long, ongoing career that saw him become the FIRST R&B artist to cross over into the pop charts, and the ONLY one to stay there. Some of his contemporaries scored a hit or two with this new rock 'n' roll music, but Fats scored hit after hit year after year. And all the great stuff is here. Compiled for listening pleasure? for dancing? for education? and to pay tribute to the great New Orleans musicians heard on every song, this is the alltime greatest Fats Domino compilation.

It begins in 1956 when teenagers heard Pat Boone's cover version of Ain't It A Shame, then heard Fats Domino original, and realized that one was hot? and one was not. Fats followed it with 65 more pop hits, and that's not counting the 13 R&B hits he scored before Ain't It A Shame. We have every hit you'd expect? Blue Monday, I'm Ready, Walkin' To New Orleans, Blueberry Hill, I'm Walkin', and many more.
Fats Domino survived rock 'n' roll, he survived Hurricane Katrina, so now let's get on our knees, bow toward New Orleans, and salute one of the true, all-time greats: Antoine 'Fats' Domino.

Track Listing

• Ain't It A Shame
• All By Myself
• Poor Me
• The Fat Man
• I Can't Go On
• I'm In Love Again
• Bo Weevil
• Please Don't Leave Me
• My Blue Heaven
• When My Dreamboat Comes Home
• Blueberry Hill
• Honey Chile
• Blue Monday
• I'm Walkin'
• It's You I Love
• Wait And See
• The Big Beat
• I Want You To Know
• Sick And Tired
• Swanee River Hop (instrumental)
• I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Some Day
• I Want To Walk You Home
• Whole Lotta Loving
• Country Boy
• I'm Ready
• Be My Guest
• Shu Rah
• It Keeps Rainin'
• Let The Four Winds Blow
• My Girl Josephine
• Jambalaya
• What A Party
• Walking To New Orleans

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Pop/Rock

Run Time: 73 mins

Release Date: 01/02/07

UPC: 4000127168252