A GREAT UK LONDON 78 FROM FATS DOMINO

WAIT AND SEE

b/w   I STILL LOVE YOU

Fats was the top-selling male R&B artist of the 50s, during which Chuck Berry placed 16 songs on the R&B charts and Little Richard placed 18. Fats' total was 46 (27 of which also made the Pop charts. Add to that 6 Pop hits that didn't make the R&B charts! (Even Elvis “only” had 38 tunes on the Pop charts in the 50s.) In a way, Fats was the Nat “King” Cole of 50s R&B; he just sang, without gimmicks, and made it sound easy. There was nothing threatening about his appearance or his music; adults accepted him almost as easily as their kids.

Antoine Domino was born February 28, 1928 in (of course) New Orleans. When he was six, the family (there were eight other children) inherited an old upright piano, and he took to it eagerly, influenced by his brother-in-law Harrison Verret (a banjo and guitar player). It took only two years before he was performing for pennies in some of the wilder local clubs. He must have gathered a lot of pennies, because by the time he was 17 or so, Billy Diamond, in whose band he was playing, had already started calling him “Fats.” (A photo from around 1945, however, shows “Slim” Domino.)

Fats' early influences were Louis Jordan, Roy Milton, Amos Milburn, Joe Turner, Camille Howard, Count Basie, Little Willie Littlefield, and Charles Brown (not a bad bunch to have influence you). Of course, there were also the boogie-woogie and stride giants: Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Champion Jack Dupree, and Roy “Professor Longhair” Byrd.

April 1957 he released VALLEY OF TEARS, which rose to #2 in the US R&B charts (#8 Pop). It was coupled with IT'S YOU I LOVE, which was the first of Fats' songs to make the US Pop charts (#6), without making the R&B charts.

September's WAIT AND SEE (which Fats performed in the film Jamboree) reached #7 in the US R&B charts (#23 Pop). Its flip, I STILL LOVE YOU, only charted Pop (and then only to #79). Jamboree also starred Jerry Lee Lewis, Lewis Lymon & Teenchords, Carl Perkins, Buddy Knox, Frankie Avalon, and Joe Williams, with the Count Basie Orchestra.


 

DISC DETAILS:

UK LONDON HLP 8517 10" 78rpm SHELLAC

SIDE 1: - WAIT AND SEE   

SIDE 2:-  I STILL LOVE YOU 

 

CONDITION - E/E-

NICE!

AMAZINGLY THIS GREAT 78 FAILED TO MAKE IT INTO THE UK CHARTS AT ALL !!


 

DON'T MISS THIS GREAT R&B 78 ON THE UK LONDON LABEL

BUY NOW!