Fats domino dead at 89...

[1911ly]

Another legend gone :-(

Fats Domino, Architect Of Rock 'N' Roll, Dead At 89 : The Two-Way : NPR

 

[HoughMade]

Let's be honest...we're all just a little surprised he lasted this long.

Like his music, though I prefer Louis Armstrong's version of "Blueberry Hill"...but it's like choosing between two fine wines- no losers.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Let's be honest...we're all just a little surprised he lasted this long.

Like his music, though I prefer Louis Armstrong's version of "Blueberry Hill"...but it's like choosing between two fine wines- no losers.

You're just talking about that song right? I mean, if we're considering bodies of work, Fats is off the island. Armstrong stays.

 

[Thor]

Ain't that a shame...

 

[HoughMade]

You're just talking about that song right? I mean, if we're considering bodies of work, Fats is off the island. Armstrong stays.

Just the one song.

 

[indiucky]

Like Hough I am kind of surprised he lasted this long...A full rich life for sure....

My Dad told me one of the greatest sins of his generation is that Pat Boone's version sold more copies of his rendition of Blueberry Hill than Fat's version...I asked dad why and he said, "Race...Pure and simple...Parent's didn't want their kids listening to "race music" so they had Boone record the song so we could still have the song....We all listened to Fat's version anyway...Not Boone's version.....Now let me tell you about one of the greatest baseball players that ever lived but couldn't play in the Major's until after his prime...Satchel Page..."

 

[historian]

R.I.P.

 

[actaeon277]

 

[Kutnupe14]

Like Hough I am kind of surprised he lasted this long...A full rich life for sure....

My Dad told me one of the greatest sins of his generation is that Pat Boone's version sold more copies of his rendition of Blueberry Hill than Fat's version...I asked dad why and he said, "Race...Pure and simple...Parent's didn't want their kids listening to "race music" so they had Boone record the song so we could still have the song....We all listened to Fat's version anyway...Not Boone's version.....Now let me tell you about one of the greatest baseball players that ever lived but couldn't play in the Major's until after his prime...Satchel Page..."

Never knew that Pat Boone recorded that song.... geez it absolutely sucked.

[video=youtube;qrhspylZSNI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrhspylZSNI[/video]

made me want to go to sleep. Did it really sell more than Fat's version?

 

[Kutnupe14]

Jerry Lee Lewis still lives! The old school rockers are rapidly disappearing.

 

[r3126]

Going to date myself here.... 1957, Medford, Oregon, National Guard Armory. Fats Domino live and in concert. I still remember (most of) the words to "Blue Monday", "Blueberry Hill" and "I'm Walking" - all released that year. ...60 years ago....where does the time go?

 

[actaeon277]

[video=youtube;I6JZW7zMDfY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6JZW7zMDfY[/video]

 

[actaeon277]

[video=youtube;Y29RZpHnkq8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y29RZpHnkq8[/video]

 

[actaeon277]

[video=youtube;lbLkS1PLjwI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbLkS1PLjwI[/video]

 

[Leadeye]

A long life lived doing what he liked and doing it well.

 

[Bennettjh]

How sad. Losing too many good people and musicians.

 

[SSGSAD]

R I P .....

 

[87iroc]

I think of 2 things when I hear Pat Boone's name. This song was one of my favorites off my dad's LPs as a kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g_M_eAwyGs

Then he did this...never could figure it out.(not that I really followed him)...

 

[GreyState]

Seems like a lot of good ones are passing lately. RIP

 

[indiucky]

made me want to go to sleep. Did it really sell more than Fat's version?

Yes...

And it isn't that white dudes can't do soul and r&b well (nor that black folk can't do country and rock and/or roll well) it's just that Pat Boone isn't one of them...You mentioned Jerry Lee Lewis and his piano playing is straight out of southern black Gospel...He can pull it off because he said as a kid he would sit outside the black services to listen to the music...He said it spoke to him through his ears to his heart...In other words Jerry Lee was playing from his heart, Pat Boone was not....

Blues and Bluegrass have always been my favorite forms of music...I have heard Bluegrass musicians and Blue's musicians say the exact same thing in interviews almost word for word...

"You got to play/sing it front the heart...If you ain't people will pick up on that....The fans know...When you are singing about pain and heartbreak you are singing WITH them...Not AT them..."

It's crying in your beer, bourbon, and Zima music Kut....It's got to come from the heart.....

When I was 15 I was a busboy at a local Holiday Inn Dining Room....I hung out in the kitchen mostly...Chef Reid and Tom were two older black guys that ran the kitchen like they were still in the Army...I remember one time when Chef Reid came in wearing a B B King T shirt I complimented him on his shirt and said I was a fan...He and Tom busted out laughing, through their tears I could hear Chef saying, "Tom this little white boy says he likes and knows B B King's music....With that mullet and skinny tie no less..." (It was the 80's Kut so cut me some slack on my attire and hair style)

I responded the way my dad told it to me....

"If it wasn't for folks like B B King, Muddy Waters, and Big Mama Thornton, Elvis Presley would still be alive and driving trucks in Tupelo, Mississippi..."

Dead silence...Followed by roaring laughter, a tousling of my hair and these words which resound to this day.....

"That little white boy's alright Tom..."

Then they invited me catfishing...

But only because Papaw had a Catalpa tree....You better know what that means.....Access to a good Catalpa tree got me in good with Chef and Tom LOL......