It’s been a few months since we talked about them, so you might want to refresh your memory by listening to episode eight, on “The Fat Man”, and episode twelve, on “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”.Īfter his brief split from Imperial Records, and thus from working with Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew had returned to Imperial after Domino helped him on “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”, and the two of them resumed their collaboration. Today, for the third time, we’re going to look at the collaborations between Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew, and Cosimo Matassa, and the way they brought New Orleans music into the R&B and rock and roll genres. This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Those are episode eight on The Fat Man, and episode twelve, on Lawdy Miss Clawdy.

I’ve leaned on that rather more than I normally lean on a single source for this episode, because it’s the only biography of Domino I know of, and we’re looking at Domino in more depth than most other artists we’ve looked at so far. Pretty much all the information in this episode comes from Rick Coleman’s Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock ‘n’ Roll.

The best compilation of Fats Domino’s music is a four-CD box set called They Call Me The Fat Man: The Legendary Imperial Recordings. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.Īs always, I’ve created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. Today we’re looking at Fats Domino and “Ain’t That A Shame”. Welcome to episode twenty-six of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. Who is Hannah and what is his connection with Lady Beauclair? In attempting to answer this, he unwittingly finds himself re-enacting the tragic fate of Tristano.' IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.Download file | Play in new window | Recorded on April 1, 2019 In her cold garret, Eleanora tells Cautley another tragic tale - one that features the sinister Robery Hannah. But Cautley has also made a second acquaintance that same evening, the eminent painter Sir Endymion Straker, and through him, Eleanora, Sir Endymion's mistress.

SYNOPSIS: ' After meeting the mysterious and beautiful Lady Beauclair at a society ball, George Cautley, a hapless young artist trying to make his way in the gilded world of 1770s London, paints her portrait while she in turn tells him the scandalous story of Tristano, a castrato singer in Handel's Opera company fifty years before. The dust jacket is complete, still shows the price but is showing some slight signs of wear at the top and bottom of the spine. A First UK edition hardback in very god condition for its age.

Domino by Ross King