THE FAT MAN COMETH! Domino
RECORD MIRROR, MAY 5, 1973 23 WAXIE'S WORLD WAXIE'S WORLD WAXIE'S WORLD WAXIE'S WORLD THE greatest rock and roll entertainer? An easy question. The answer, without any doubt, is Fats THE FAT MAN COMETH! Domino. Not simply because hishis monumental career as Play Fats Domino, The name is now a householda vocalist with the Billy Fabulous "Mr. D", and word; not just because hisDiamond Band in 1946. Here Stands Fats Domino first record( The Fat( "He's the one who first - all compiled from vari- Man) sold 800,000 the firststarted calling me Fats.) ous 1949 to 1963 sessions year; not because he col-says the Fat Man. for Imperial, and feature lected 22 Gold Discs; not But it wasn't until he Fats backed by musicians because his total recordformed his own crew, the such as Wendell Duconge, sales are 65 million!It isFats Domino Band ( with Frank Fields, Herb Hard- because Fats Domino isWendell Conshay, alto esty, Lee Allen, Clarence one of the great naturalsax; Robert Hagans, te- Ford, Cornelius Coleman, phenomenon of the rocknor sax; Walter Nelson, Buddy Hagans, and many and roll landscape, a trulyguitar; Herb Hardesty, te- other rock -field promi- extraordinary musician. nor sax; Ernest McClean, nents. It's his thing - his bagbass; and Earl Palmer, Fats Domino paid his to provide exactly thedrums), that Fats got the one and only visit to Eng- kind of nostalgia -provok-chance to cause a sensa- land for a week's perform- ing musical pleasure thattion by mixing r&b and a ance at London's Saville pleases blues, buffs andfierce, exciting, untitled Theatre in March 1967.
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