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My Blue Heaven: The Best of Fats Domino

Fats Domino - My Blue Heaven: The Best of Fats Domino Audio CD

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Band: Fats Domino
Title: My Blue Heaven: The Best of Fats Domino
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Release Date: 1990-07-16
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: My Blue Heaven 2: Fat Man 3: Please Don't Leave Me 4: Ain't That a Shame 5: I'm in Love Again 6: When My Dreamboat Comes Home 7: Blueberry Hill 8: Blue Monday 9: I'm Walkin' 10: Valley of Tears 11: Big Beat 12: Yes, My Darling 13: Whole Lotta Lovin' 14: I'm Ready 15: I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday 16: I Want to Walk You Home 17: Be My Guest 18: Walking to New Orleans 19: Let the Four Winds Blow 20: What a Party

Fats Bests
This cassette sort of reads like a time line of his music with the exception of the first two songs. My Blue Heaven: The Best of Fats Domino is forty-two minutes and fifty-four seconds long and was released on July 18, 1990. All the songs on My Blue Heaven: The Best of Fats Domino are original recordings. His voice and music are great. It is a mixture of Rhythm and Blues, New Orleans sound, and pop. I just can't say enough good things about this cassette. My Blue Heaven: The Best of Fats Domino gets an AAAAA+++++. Below is a list of songs on My Blue Heaven: The Best of Fats Domino, how high they charted and the year that they charted.

Side 1

My Blue Heaven
#19 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1956
#5 U. S. Rhythm and Blues Singles-1956
The Fat Man
#2 U. S. Billboard Rhythm & Blues Records -1949
Please Don't Leave Me
Ain't It A Shame
#10 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1955
#1 U. S. Billboard Rhythm and Blues Singles-1955
#1 U. S. Billboard Top Selling Rhythm and Blues singles (10 weeks at #1)
I'm In Love Again
#3 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1956
#1 U. S. Billboard Rhythm and Blues Singles-1956
When My Dreamboat Comes Home
#14 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1956
#2 U. S. Billboard Rhythm and Blues Singles-1956
Blueberry Hill
#2 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1956
#1 U. S. Billboard Rhythm and Blues Singles-1956
#1 U. S. Billboard Top Selling Rhythm and Blues singles
Blue Monday
#5 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1956
#1 U. S. Billboard Rhythm and Blues Singles-1956
#1 U. S. Billboard Top Selling Rhythm and Blues singles (eight weeks at #1)
I'm Walkin'
#4 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1957
#1 U. S. Billboard Rhythm and Blues Singles-1957
Valley of Tears
#8 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1957
#2 U. S. Billboard Rhythm and Blues Singles-1957

Side 2
The Big Beat
#26 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1957
#15 U. S. Billboard Rhythm and Blues Singles-1957
Yes, My Darling
#55 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1958
#10 U. S. Billboard Rhythm and Blues Singles-1958
Whole Lotta Loving
#6 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1958
#2 U. S. Billboard Rhythm and Blues Singles-1958
I'm Ready
#16 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1959
#7 U. S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides-1959
I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday
#17 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1959
#22 U. S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides-1959
I Want To Walk You Home
#8 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1959
#1 U. S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides-1959
Be My Guest
#8 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1959
#2 U. S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides-1959
Walking To New Orleans
#6 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1960
#2 U. S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides-1960
Let The Four Winds Blow
#15 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1961
#2 U. S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides-1961
What A Party
#22 U. S. Billboard Hot 100-1961.

THAT'S WHY I'M WALKIN' TO NEW ORLEANS
ALL OF HIS GREATEST HITS ARE HERE. C'MON, EVERYBODY LOVES LISTENING TO THE FAT MAN. FATS DOMINO WAS THE ARTIST WHO EPITOMIZED THE SOUND OF NEW ORLEANS R&B, AND EARLY ROCK AND ROLL. HE WAS AN ORIGINAL. .

"They call me the fat man..."
He was a great performer bar none, a man who dripped entertainment and emotion from every pore. It's hard to find fault with the music of Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino. He was a great singer, blessed with a hypnotic rumble of a voice. His vocals rang with soul and charisma and enthusiasm. He was a gifted pianist too, with an obvious knack for rolling, spacious melodies that packed a healthy dose of r&b grit and raw soul. If you're trying to fill in a stylistic timeline, jot him down in some euphoric niche between New Orleans r&b and early rock `n' roll. He excelled at combining the melody of the former with the rhythms of the latter (inasmuch as the two could be said to have differing melodies or rhythms).

All of which is to say, if you care at all about good, gutsy music, you should have some Fats in your collection. This disc is a damn good place to start. It features a lot of his best and most beloved songs, form the gritty majesty of the tile track to the gospel stomp of "Blue Monday" to the rolling grace of "Blueberry Hill" to the seductive party stomp of "The Big Beat" to the funky awesomeness of "Let The Four Winds Blow. " Excellent sound quality, too, crisp and clear.

You'll want to get other stuff, too. Maybe a few of the twofer reissues of his proper LPs. But that's for later. Right now, just get this disc and enjoy. It's easy. .

A good compilation but his style can get monotonous
Only problem can be that his style of performing can get monotonous; I would recommend keeping it for the ones you really like and don't overplay the CD--set the CD to play the tracks you really like and skip the ones you don't. All the Fats hits I can recall and then some. After checking all the other offerings out there, I felt this was the best collection of his hits.

One of New Orleans' More Engaging Exports
And a few more seminal bits and pieces, too: the Cd's got 20 cuts in all. "My Blue Heaven - The Best of Fats Domino," EMI Imperial, 1990, is a good, thorough compilation of all the 1950's hits, on Imperial, that made the piano-playing Domino famous. It's also a solid illustration of what makes Domino one of New Orleans' (his home town's), most engaging, entertaining exports.

The cuts included here, like all Domino's work for Imperial, were produced by his close, long-term friend Dave Bartholomew, and what a stroke of luck that proved for the musician. Domino and Bartholomew also wrote many of the biggest hits together: I expect those royalties have added up to quite a mountain of Carnival gewgaws over the years. Seems like Domino got in on the ground floor, when Bartholomew and Lew Chudd, owner of Imperial, joined forces, and went looking for exciting new acts around the Big Easy. They found the barely twenty year old Domino playing a local club, utilizing a half-forgotten old-style of pianism, what they called locally jailhouse blues. Nobody else was doing it - Bartholomew and Chudd were blown away. The trio cut their first single, "The Fat Man," in 1950, and, for several years thereafter, Domino's work languished in rhythm and blues. But times were changing, and Domino crossed over into rock and roll with "Ain't It A Shame," in 1955. If you were around at the time, you'll know that the white singer Pat Boone quickly covered it, as "Ain't That a Shame," and had a pretty big hit with it, too. But Domino and Bartholomew were getting the royalties, even so, and were able to cry all the way to the bank.

Many more hits followed, several of them covered by white performers at the time. But the hits live to this day, alive on the radio and in our hearts, in Domino's smooth stylings. Every one of them is in this compilation: the title song, of course, and "I'm In Love Again,""When My Dreamboat Comes Home,""Blueberry Hill, "Blue Monday,""I'm Walking," "Whole Lotta Loving,""I Want to Walk You Home," and "Walking to New Orleans. "You have to say that these guys had a big hand in creating rock and roll, ribald, good time category.

Some years ago, I was lucky enough to see Domino in person, in Las Vegas. He was good-humored, highly entertaining - and, perhaps he was inspired by the venue, but those diamond rings all over his piano-playing hands winked, flashed and sparkled in the limelight. He's definitely one of the more engaging exports to come out of New Orleans.

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