WRFG’s Route 66 celebrates a time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended together,
often in the same song. Our primary focus is on the music of the Jump Blues Era
of the 1940s which blended into the early part of the Rock & Roll Era of the 1950s
and on how those styles and artists have evolved over the years.
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Today’s featured artist is Fats Domino. Born Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. in New Orleans on February 26, 1928, Domino’s career spanned both the jump blues and
rock & roll eras. He sold more than 65 million records and his first single,
“The Fat Man” is cited by some historians as the first rock and roll single and the
first to sell more than one million copies. Domino continued to work with the song’s
co-writer Dave Bartholomew, contributing his distinctive rolling piano style to
Lloyd Price’s “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” (1952) and scoring a string of mainstream
hits beginning with “Ain’t That a Shame” (1955).
Between 1955 and 1960, he had eleven Top 10 US pop hits. By 1955, five
of his records had sold more than a million copies, being certified gold.
FATS DOMINO RESOURCES
Biography @ wikipedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
Fats Domino Official Website
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2025
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Shipyard Social Function Lucky Millinder Decca Records 1945
The Fat Man
Fats Domino
Imperial Records 1949
Please Don’t Leave Me
Roomful of Blues
House of Joy 1986
Let the Four Winds Blow
Roy Brown
Imperial Records 1957
I Ain’t Gonna Let You In Annie Laurie & Paul Gayten Regal Records 1949
Cookin’ In Style Johnny Adams One Foot in the Blues 1996
Willow Weep For Me Billie Holiday Lady Sings The Blues 1956
Old Mother Hubbard Ella Fitzgerald Decca Records 1949
Blue Skies Dizzy Gillespie & Joe Carroll Dee Jee Records 1952
Jukebox Drive Mitch Woods Happy Hour 2024
Buford’s Bop Jimmy Thackery Guitar 2003
Hello Josephine
Taj Mahal & The New Orleans Social Club
Maestro 2008
We Can’t Agree Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5 Decca Records 1947
Midnight Blues T-Bone Walker Black & White Records 1948
In a Mellow Tone Count Basie Breakfast Dance & Barbecue 1959
Grandma Plays the Numbers Wynonie Harris King Records 1949
Blue Monday
Fats Domino
This Is Fats Domino! 1957
Ain’t That A Shame
Jerry Granelli w/ Robben Ford & Bill Frisell
Dance Hall 2017
Going To The River
Chuck Willis
Okeh Records 1953
Groovy Movie Blues Johnny Moore / Charles Brown Exclusive Records 1948
Jumpin’ At Mesners Lester Young Philo Records 1945
Fat Daddy Dinah Washington Mercury Records 1953
K.C. Loving Little Willie Littlefield Federal Records 1952
Hootie Blues Jay McShann The Last Of The Blue Devils 1977
He Knows How to Hucklebuck Paul Williams w/ Joan Shaw Savoy Records 1949
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Lloyd Price & The Dave Bartholomew Orchestra
Specialty Records 1952
You Ain’t Got It No More Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends Capitol Records 1949
Jack Of Diamonds Jesse Thomas Specialty Records 1951
My Babe Little Walter & His Night Cats Checker Records 1955
Medley: Don’t You Know, Shake Rattle & Roll, Blueberry Hill
Fats Domino
…Live! From The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2001
My Blue Heaven
Fats Domino
Rock and Rollin’ with Fats Domino 1956
(sign off)
Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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