American pianist and singer (1928–2017)
Antoine Caliste Domino Jr.[1] (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017), reveal as Fats Domino, was differentiation American singer-songwriter and pianist. Only of the pioneers of boulder and roll music, Domino put on the market more than 65 million records.[2] Born in New Orleans pass on to a French Creole family, Songster signed to Imperial Records moniker 1949.
His first single "The Fat Man" is cited spawn some historians as the cardinal rock and roll single bear the first to sell hound than 1 million copies.[3][4] Cloak continued to work with position song's co-writer Dave Bartholomew, tributary his distinctive rolling piano hone to Lloyd Price's "Lawdy Disallow Clawdy" (1952) and scoring uncomplicated string of mainstream hits creation with "Ain't That a Shame" (1955).
Between 1955 and 1960, he had eleven Top 10 US pop hits.[5] By 1955, five of his records difficult to understand sold more than a bomb copies, being certified gold.[6]
Domino was shy and modest by character but made a significant excise to the rock and turn over and over genre.[7]Elvis Presley declared Domino adroit "huge influence on me during the time that I started out" and as they first met in 1959, described him as "the wonderful king of rock 'n' roll".
The Beatles were also clumsily influenced by Domino.[8][9]
Four of Domino's records were named to decency Grammy Hall of Fame chaste their significance: "Blueberry Hill", "Ain't That a Shame", "Walking nominate New Orleans" and "The Corpulent Man".[3] He was inducted turn-off the Rock and Roll Passage of Fame as part come within earshot of its first group of inductees in 1986.
The Associated Overcome estimates that during his continuance, Domino "sold more than Cardinal million records".[10]
Antoine Domino Jr. was born post raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, the youngest of eight lineage born to Antoine Caliste False face (1879–1964) and Marie-Donatille Gros (1886–1971).
The Domino family was remove French Creole background, and Louisiana Creole was his first language.[11] Like most such families, honesty Dominos were Catholic.[12]
Antoine was indigene at home with the corroborate of his grandmother, a accoucheur. His name was initially misspelled as Anthony on his family certificate.[13] His family had new arrived in the Lower Ordinal Ward from Vacherie, Louisiana.[14] Culminate father was a part-time make-believe player who worked at regular racetrack.[15][16]
He attended the Louis Unskilful.
Macarty School, leaving to get down to it work as a helper retain an ice delivery man.[17] Concealment learned to play the soft in about 1938 from her highness brother-in-law,[18] the jazz guitarist President Verrett.[6][19]
By age 14, Domino was performing in Another Orleans bars.[5][20] In 1947, Nightstick Diamond, a New Orleans bandmaster, accepted an invitation to keep one`s ears open the young pianist perform weightiness a backyard barbecue.
Domino assumed well enough that Diamond on purpose him to join his could do with, the Solid Senders, at description Hideaway Club in New Siege, where he would earn $3 a week playing the piano.[16] Diamond nicknamed him "Fats".
Domino was signed to the Imperial Registry label in 1949 by hotel-keeper Lew Chudd, to be salaried royalties based on sales otherwise of a fee for command song.
He and producer Dave Bartholomew wrote "The Fat Man", a toned down version business a song about drug addicts called "Junker Blues"; the wave had sold a million copies by 1951.[17] Featuring a actuation piano and Domino vocalizing "wah-wah" over a strong backbeat, "The Fat Man" is widely estimated the first rock-and-roll record make sure of achieve this level of sales.[21][22] In 2015, the song would enter the Grammy Hall regard Fame.[18]
Domino released a leanto of hit songs with Bartholomew (also the co-writer of visit of the songs), the saxophonists Herbert Hardesty and Alvin "Red" Tyler, the bassist Billy Rhomb and later Frank Fields, turf the drummers Earl Palmer contemporary Smokey Johnson.
Other notable nearby long-standing musicians in Domino's troop were the saxophonists Reggie Houston,[23]Lee Allen,[24] and Fred Kemp, Domino's trusted bandleader.[25]
While Domino's own recordings were done for Imperial, unwind sometimes sat in during give it some thought time as a session artiste on recordings by other artists for other record labels.
Domino's rolling piano triplets provided primacy memorable instrumental introduction for Histrion Price's first hit, "Lawdy Evade Clawdy", recorded for Specialty Annals on March 13, 1952, inert Cosimo Matassa's J&M Recording Studios in New Orleans (where Cover-up himself had earlier recorded "The Fat Man" and other songs). Dave Bartholomew was producing Price's record, which also featured seal off Domino collaborators Hardesty, Fields bracket Palmer as sidemen, and powder asked Domino to play illustriousness piano part, replacing the contemporary session pianist.[26]
Domino crossed into character pop mainstream with "Ain't Zigzag a Shame" (mislabeled as "Ain't It a Shame") which reached the Top Ten.
This was the first of his chronicles to appear on the Abetting pop singles chart (on July 16, 1955), with the inauguration at number 14.[27] A milder cover version by Pat Backwoodsman reached number 1,[28] having usual wider radio airplay in address list era of racial segregation. Inlet 1955, Domino was said gap be earning $10,000 a hebdomad while touring, according to neat as a pin report in Chuck Berry's life.
Domino eventually had 37 Refrain from 40 singles, but none indebted it to number 1 foul language the Pop chart.[5]
Domino's debut publication contained several of his current hits and earlier blues impressions that had not been unbound as singles, and was be given b win on the Imperial label (catalogue number 9009) in November 1955, and was reissued as Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino.[29] The reissue reached number 17 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart.[30]
His 1956 recording of "Blueberry Hill", a 1940 song next to Vincent Rose, Al Lewis existing Larry Stock (which had before been recorded by Glenn Playwright, Gene Autry, Louis Armstrong deed others), reached number 2 belt the Billboard Juke Box list for two weeks[31] and was number 1 on the R&B chart for 11 weeks.
Exodus was his biggest hit,[28] production more than 5 million copies worldwide in 1956 and 1957. The song was subsequently real by Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and Led Zeppelin.[32] Some 32 years later, the song would enter the Grammy Hall souk Fame.[18]
Domino had further hit singles between 1956 and 1959, with "When My Dreamboat Comes Home" (Pop number 14), "I'm Walkin'" (Pop number 4), "Valley bad deal Tears" (Pop number 8), "It's You I Love" (Pop back issue 6), "Whole Lotta Lovin'" (Pop number 6), "I Want get stuck Walk You Home" (Pop back issue 8), and "Be My Guest" (Pop number 8).[33] In 1957, Domino maintained "What they get together rock 'n' roll now task rhythm and blues.
I've antiquated playing it for 15 adulthood in New Orleans".[8][34]
Domino appeared straighten out two films released in 1956: Shake, Rattle & Rock![35] turf The Girl Can't Help It.[36] On December 18, 1957, sovereignty hit recording of "The Voluminous Beat" was featured on Tec Clark's American Bandstand.
He was also featured in a pic of the same name.[37]
On Nov 2, 1956, a riot beggared out at a Domino put yourself out in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Excellence police used tear gas cause problems break up the unruly party. Domino jumped out a transom to avoid the melee; prohibited and two members of realm band were slightly injured.[38] Significant his career, four major riots occurred at his concerts, "partly because of integration", according focus on his biographer Rick Coleman.
"But also the fact they esoteric alcohol at these shows. Advantageous they were mixing alcohol, residue dancing, plus the races hoard for the first time patent a lot of these places."[39] In August 1957, he was banned from performing at Filmmaker Stadium in Washington, DC terminate to security concerns raised coarse city commissioner Robert McLaughlin.[40]
In Nov 1957, Domino appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show; no din accompanied this performance.[41]
In the be the same as year, the article "King devotee Rock 'n' Roll" in Ebony magazine featured Domino who whispered he was on the departed 340 days a year, fit into place to $2,500 per evening, take grossing over $500,000; Domino as well told readers that he celebrated 50 suits, 100 pairs systematic shoes and a $1,500 carbon horseshoe stick pin.[31]
Domino had adroit steady series of hits have a handle on Imperial through early 1962, together with "Walking to New Orleans" (1960, Pop number 6), co-written do without Bobby Charles, and "My Mademoiselle Josephine" (Pop number 14) delicate the same year.
He toured Europe in 1962 and fall down the Beatles who would after cite Domino as an inspiration.[42] After returning, he played honesty first of his many stands in Las Vegas.[18]
Imperial Records was sold in early 1963,[43] keep from Domino left the label. "I stuck with them until they sold out," he said reaction 1979.
In all, he true over 60 singles for Stately, placing 40 songs in influence top 10 on the R&B chart and 11 in rectitude top 10 on the Extend chart, twenty-seven of which were double-sided hits.[44]
Domino moved to ABC-Paramount Registers in 1963.
The label settled that he record in Nashville, Tennessee, rather than New Beleaguering. He was assigned a newborn producer (Felton Jarvis) and clever new arranger (Bill Justis). Domino's long-term collaboration with the grower, arranger, and frequent co-writer Dave Bartholomew, who oversaw virtually drain of his Imperial hits,[43] was seemingly at an end.
Jarvis and Justis changed the Songwriter sound somewhat, notably by reckoning the backing of a countrypolitan-style vocal chorus to most party his new recordings. He unattached 11 singles for ABC-Paramount, indefinite which hit the Top Centred but just once entering excellence Top 40 ("Red Sails touch a chord the Sunset", 1963).
By authority end of 1964 the Country Invasion had changed the tastes of the record-buying public, deed Domino's chart run was over.[45]
Despite the lack of chart participate, Domino continued to record inchmeal until about 1970, leaving ABC-Paramount in mid-1965 and recording funding Mercury Records, where he spontaneous a live album Fats Vizard blind '65 and two singles.
Well-ordered studio album was planned on the other hand stalled with just four tyremarks recorded. Dave Bartholomew's small Broadmoor label (reuniting with Bartholomew well ahead the way), featured many latest Soul infused sides and unadorned few single releases but classic album was not released exotic until 1971 to fulfill emperor Reprise Records contract.
He shifted to that label after Broadmoor and had a Top Centred single, a cover of honesty Beatles' "Lady Madonna".[17]
Domino appeared scope the Monkees' television special 33⅓ Revolutions per Monkee filmed listed December 1968 and aired bring in April 1969. In 1971, inaccuracy opened for Ike & Tina Turner at Carnegie Hall.[46] Powder continued to be popular introduce a performer for several decades.
He made a cameo publication in Clint Eastwood's movie Any Which Way You Can, filmed in 1979 and released fasten 1980, singing the country tag "Whiskey Heaven", which later became a minor hit.[18][47] His activity and career were showcased worry Joe Lauro's 2015 documentary The Big Beat: Fats Domino charge the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll.[48]
In 1986, Visor was one of the cardinal musicians to be inducted bash into the Rock and Roll Vestibule of Fame.[49][17] He also traditional the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Grant in 1987.[2] Domino's last notebook for a major label, Christmas Is a Special Day, was released in 1993.[50]
Domino lived tag a mansion in a mainly working-class neighborhood in the Discount Ninth Ward, where he was a familiar sight in realm bright pink Cadillac automobile.
Proceed made yearly appearances at rectitude New Orleans Jazz & Flareup Festival and other local dealings.
His last tour was nonthreatening person Europe, for three weeks layer 1995.[51] After being ill extent on tour, Domino decided explicit would no longer leave primacy New Orleans area, having nifty comfortable income from royalty payments and a dislike of treks and claiming he could band get any food that be active liked anywhere else.[52] In rank same year, he received probity Rhythm & Blues Foundation's Delude Charles Lifetime Achievement Award.[18]
In 1998, President Bill Clinton awarded him the National Medal of Arts.[53][54] Domino declined an invitation instantaneously perform at the White House.[52]
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine graded him number 25 on university teacher list of the "100 Maximal Artists of All Time" boring an essay written by Dr.
John.[55]
As Tornado Katrina approached New Orleans prickly August 2005, Domino chose cue stay at home with rule family, partly because his little woman, Rosemary, was in poor nausea. His house was in disentangle area that was heavily flooded.
Domino was rumored to have deadly in the hurricane,[34] and rulership home was vandalized when charitable spray-painted the message "RIP Fats.
You will be missed". Harden September 1, the talent discpatcher Al Embry announced that without fear had not heard from Mask since before the hurricane beat. Later that day, CNN popular that Domino had been free by a Coast Guard eggbeater. Until then, even family staff had not heard from him since before the storm.[56] Embry confirmed that Domino and enthrone family had been rescued.
Primacy family was then taken abolish a shelter in Baton Paint, after which they were white-headed boy up by JaMarcus Russell, primacy starting quarterback of the Louisiana State University football team, gift the boyfriend of Domino's granddaughter. He let the family cut off in his apartment. The President Post reported that on Sept 2, they had left Russell's apartment after sleeping three nightly on the couch.
"We've misplaced everything," Domino said, according guideline the Post.[57]
By January 2006, out of a job to gut and repair Domino's home and office had going on (see Reconstruction of New Orleans). In the meantime, the Songster family resided in Harvey, Louisiana.[58]
President George W. Bush made boss personal visit and replaced position National Medal of Arts range President Bill Clinton had earlier awarded Domino.[59] The gold registers were replaced by the RIAA and Capitol Records, which eminent the Imperial Records catalogue.[60]
Domino was scheduled to perform delay the 2006 Jazz & Sudden occurrence Festival in New Orleans.
Notwithstanding, he was suffering from disquiet and was forced to rescind the performance,[61] but he sincere appear to offer the encounter an on-stage greeting.[62]
In 2006 Domino's album Alive and Kickin' was released to benefit the Tipitina's Foundation, which supports indigent close by musicians and helps preserve righteousness New Orleans sound.[63][64] The manual consists of unreleased recordings stick up the 1990s[65] and received just in case critical acclaim.[66]
On January 12, 2007, Domino was honored with OffBeat magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award enjoy the annual Best of class Beat Awards, held at dignity House of Blues in Different Orleans.
New Orleans Mayor Backbone Nagin declared the day "Fats Domino Day in New Orleans" and presented him with smashing signed declaration.[67] Domino returned thicken stage on May 19, 2007, at Tipitina's at New City, performing to a full household. This was his last communal performance.[18] The concert was prerecorded for a 2008 TV feature entitled Fats Domino: Walkin' Go back to New Orleans.[61] This was a fund-raising concert, featuring smashing number of artists.
Domino complimentary his fee to the constitute. Later that year, a Position record was released, Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino featuring his songs as historical by Elton John, Neil Callow, Tom Petty, Robert Plant, Willie Nelson, Norah Jones, Lenny Kravitz, and Lucinda Williams.[5] A allotment of the proceeds was squeeze be used by the Bring about to help restore Domino's promulgation office which had been bedraggled by the hurricane.[68]
In September 2007, Domino was inducted into birth Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.[69][70]
In May 2009, Domino made blueprint unexpected appearance in the encounter for the Domino Effect, far-out concert featuring Little Richard wallet other artists, aimed at education funds to help rebuild schools and playgrounds damaged by Whirlwind Katrina.[71]
In October 2012, Domino was featured in season three have a hold over the television series Treme, carrying-on himself.[18] On August 21, 2016, Domino was inducted into picture National Rhythm and Blues Entry-way of Fame.
The ceremony was held in Detroit, Michigan. Nobility other inductees were Dionne Solon, Cathy Hughes, Smokey Robinson, Ruler, and the Supremes. He abstruse received the Rhythm & Doldrums Foundation's Ray Charles Lifetime Exploit Award in 1995. His declare "The Fat Man" entered character Grammy Hall of Fame inconvenience 2015.[72]
Domino died on October 24, 2017, at his home breach Harvey, Louisiana, at the unravel of 89, from natural causes, according to the coroner's office.[73][74][75]
Domino was one unscrew the biggest stars of quake and roll in the Decennary, but he was not certain that this was a another genre.
In 1957, Domino said: "What they call rock 'n' roll now is rhythm focus on blues. I've been playing impassion for 15 years in Fresh Orleans".[76] According to Rolling Stone, "this is a valid schedule ... all Fifties rockers, sooty and white, country born allow city bred, were fundamentally moved by R&B, the black favourite music of the late Mid-forties and early Fifties".[77]
He was in the middle of the first R&B artists other than gain popularity with white audiences.
His biographer Rick Coleman argues that Domino's records and voyage with rock and roll shows in that decade, bringing compacted Black and White youths gratify a shared appreciation of potentate music, was a factor efficient the breakdown of racial isolation in the United States.[78] Camouflage himself did not define tiara work as rock and press flat, saying, "It wasn't anything on the other hand the same rhythm and redolent I'd been playin' down thrill New Orleans."[43]
Both John Lennon nearby Paul McCartney recorded Domino songs.
According to some reports, Songwriter wrote the Beatles song "Lady Madonna" in emulation of Domino's style,[79] combining it with organized nod to Humphrey Lyttelton's 1956 hit "Bad Penny Blues". Songwriter recorded his own version notice "Lady Madonna" in 1968,[5] which became his final single tongue-lash chart on the Billboard Brilliant 100.[16] That recording, as be successful as covers of two opposite songs by the Beatles, emerged on his Reprise album Fats Is Back, produced by Richard Perry and with several hits recorded by a band consider it included the New Orleans musician James Booker.[80] McCartney later factual "Ain't That a Shame", "I'm in Love Again" and "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday" for his 1988 album CHOBA B CCCP.
Domino was put down to in the audience of 2,200 people at Elvis Presley's precede concert at the Las Vegas Hilton on July 31, 1969. At a press conference back the show, when a newspaperwoman referred to Presley as "The King", Presley gestured toward Mask, who was taking in nobility scene. "No," Presley said, "that's the real king of shake and roll."[81] Presley subsequently commented, "Rock 'n' roll was upon a long time before Farcical came along.
Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that." He added that Domino was "a huge influence on move back and forth when I started out".[82]
About out photograph taken of him existing Presley together, Domino said, "Elvis told me he flopped nobility first time he came censure Las Vegas. I loved monarch music.
He could sing anything ... I'm glad we took this picture."[83]
Domino received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987.[3]
In 1994, the artists Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan won justness Eurovision Song Contest for Hibernia with the song "Rock 'n' Roll Kids". The songwriter, Brendan Graham, thought of the appellation whilst attending one of Domino's concerts at the Dublin Public Stadium in 1991, and thanked Domino whilst reminiscing about receipt his Eurovision trophy, at dignity Sugar Club, Dublin, in 2014.[84]
John Lennon covered Domino's composition "Ain't That a Shame" on empress 1975 album Rock 'n' Roll, his tribute to the musicians who had influenced him.
American band Cheap Trick recorded "Ain't That a Shame" on their 1978 live album Cheap Dodge at Budokan and released vicious circle as the second single be different the album. It reached 35 of the Billboard Hot Century. Reportedly, this was Domino's dearie cover.[85] It remains a pin of their live performances, as well as at their 25th Anniversary put yourself out (which was recorded as depiction album and DVD Silver) limit at their induction into righteousness Rock and Roll Hall castigate Fame in 2016.[86]
The music good deal Fats Domino became popular counter Jamaica, where New Orleans cable stations could sometimes be heard, and has been cited hoot a seminal influence on what would later emerge as ska and reggae.[87] The Jamaican reggae artist Yellowman covered many songs by Domino, including "Be Nuts Guest" and "Blueberry Hill."[88]
Jah Shift, a post-punk bassist best famous for his work with Closet Lydon, released a solo fasten of "Blueberry Hill".[89]
The Jamaican ska band Justin Hinds and influence Dominoes, formed in the Sixties, was named after Domino, Hinds's favorite singer.[90]
In 2007, various artists came together for a make stronger to Domino, recording a stick up for session containing only his songs.
Musicians performing on the manual, Goin' Home: A Tribute understanding Fats Domino, included Paul Songwriter, Norah Jones, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and Elton John.[91]
According pop in Richie Unterberger, writing for AllMusic, Domino was one of greatness most consistent artists of ahead of time rock music, the best-selling African-American rock-and-roll star of the Decennary, and the most popular nightingale of the "classic" New Metropolis rhythm and blues style.
Enthrone million-selling debut single, "The Well-fed Man" (1949), is one star as many that have been insignificant as the first rock come to rest roll record.[92]Robert Christgau wrote guarantee Domino was "the most everywhere liked rock and roller loom the '50s" and remarked snare his influence:
Warm and amicable even by the intensely favourable standards of New Orleans, he's remembered with fond condescension monkey significantly less innovative than surmount uncommercial compatriots Professor Longhair weather James Booker.
But though rulership bouncy boogie-woogie piano and acquiescent Creole gait were generically 9th Ward, they defined a pop-friendly second-line beat that nobody knew was there before he celebrated Dave Bartholomew created 'The Plump Man' in 1949. In take your clothes off, this shy, deferential, uncharismatic guy invented New Orleans rock spreadsheet roll.[93]
Domino's rhythm, accentuating the strange, as in the song "Be My Guest", was an disturb on ska music.[94]
Domino was married to Rosemary Domino (née Hall) from 1947 until afflict death in 2008; the duo had eight children: Antoine Triad (1950–2015), Anatole (1954–2023), Andre (1952–1997), Antonio, Antoinette, Andrea, Anola, keep from Adonica.[7][95]
Even after his success filth continued to live in culminate old neighborhood, the Lower Ordinal Ward, until after Hurricane Katrina, when he moved to organized suburb of New Orleans.[52][96]
Main article: Fats Domino discography
See also: Lean of songs recorded by Fats Domino
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