Other Top Ten songs followed in the late '50s for Domino: "Whole Lotta Loving" (#6), "I Want To Walk You Home" (#8) and "Be My Guest" (#8). Another Fats Domino hit, "I'm Walkin" (#4) was covered by Ricky Nelson in 1957 and helped to launch the teenage singing sensation's career. In 1957 he appeared in a movie that many consider to be the best Rock 'n' Roll film ever made, The Girl Can't Help It, singing his hit "Blue Monday" (#5). Fats could also be heard in the background on the records of other artists such as Joe Turner and Lloyd Price. The latter became Domino's highest charting record ever. In 1956 he put five songs in the American Top 40, including "I'm In Love Again" (#3) and Fats' rendition of a tune that had reached number one for Glenn Miller in 1940, "Blueberry Hill" (#2). The song established both artists as stars. Boone's version went to number one and Domino's version on Imperial went to number ten. In 1952, Fats placed more songs on the R&B chart, including "Every Night About This Time" and "Goin' Home" and scored again in 1953 with "Going To The River".įats Domino's fortunes changed dramatically in 1955 when his song, "Ain't That A Shame" was covered by White recording artist, Pat Boone. The record reached number two on the R&B charts, selling over a million copies and re-affirmed his lifelong nick name. Bartholomew helped arrange a contract with Imperial Records in 1949 and served as producer on a cleaned up version of a song about drugs called "The Fat Man" for Domino's first commercial release. It soon became obvious that this piano player was much more than just a sideman. He continued with music into the '40s and was eventually heard by trumpeter Dave Bartholomew, who invited him to join his band. By the time he was twenty, Antoine was married and a father, had survived a near-fatal car crash, and had almost lost his hand in an industrial accident. By fourteen he had quit school to work days in a bedspring factory so he could perform at night in local clubs. He first began performing in 1938 at age 10, and a year later was playing for pennies in honky-tonk bars like The Hideway Club, where bandleader Bill Diamond started calling him "Fats". His playing was influenced by boogie woogie pianists like Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis and Little Willie Littlefield. When he was 7 years old, Antoine started taking piano lessons from his much older brother-in-law Harrison Verrett. Antoine Domino was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the 26th of February 1928, in a home where French was the main language spoken.
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