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	Fats Domino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino (born February 26, 1928 or possibly May 10, 1929 in New Orleans, Louisiana), is a classic RandB and rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist.
		Domino is also a pianist with an individualistic bluesy style showing stride and boogie-woogie influences.
		Domino was the first artist to be announced as scheduled to perform at the 2006 Jazz and Heritage Festival, although he was too ill to perform and had to cancel the engagement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fats_Domino (1006 words)

	Fats Domino
		Antoine Domino was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the 26th of February 1928, in a home where French was the main language spoken.
		Fats Domino's fortunes changed dramatically in 1955 when his song, "Ain't That A Shame" was covered by white recording artist, Pat Boone.
		As the new millenium rolled around, Fats Domino was living in a New Orleans mansion with his wife Rosemary, with whom he had eight children, all of whom have names that start with "A".
	www.classicbands.com /domino.html (944 words)

	Fats Domino Page
		Fats Domino came out of New Orleans in the 50's with a rockin' piano to become one of rock-and-roll's earliest and best stars.
		Fats Domino exploded onto the rock-and-roll scene in 1955 when his song, Ain't That A Shame, was covered by white recording artist Pat Boone.
		Fats made music that was fun to listen to, and in addition to his pounding piano you could hear a sax riff, or maybe a great tenor solo from Herb Hardesty or Lee Allen.
	www.tsimon.com /domino.htm (784 words)

	Fats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fats is the plural for fat, a generic term for a class of lipids in biochemistry.
		Fats is also the name of several people such as Fats Domino and Fats Waller.
		FATS is an initialism for Foreign Affiliate Trade Statistics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fats (113 words)

	Fats Domino Sets an Example for New Orleans - New York Times
		Fats Domino is donating proceeds of a new album to a relief foundation for musicians.
		Domino, who is 78, lost three pianos and most of his other possessions in the flood; afterward, looters took most of the gold records he earned in the 1950's, when he was the second-best-selling singer after Elvis Presley.
		Domino hasn't performed since the hurricane, but he is to be one of the headliners at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which begins April 28.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/02/28/arts/28fats.html?ex=1298782800&en=28ede1e037e181c9&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (679 words)

	Blues Kingpins
		Domino, on the other hand, had been a consistent rhythm and blues hitmaker since 1950, when "The Fat Man," his rollicking introductory debut single on Imperial, vaulted to the uppermost reaches of the RandB charts.
		Domino indulged in relatively few instrumental showcases for his pianistic dexterity, but the ones he did uncork were scorchers.
		Fats was a monumental figure in the development and popularity of rock and roll, but he merits equal immortality as one of the greatest postwar blues artists to emerge from the fertile Crescent City.
	www.blueskingpins.com /fats.html (2012 words)

	Fats Domino: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Domino is also a fine pianist with an individualistic bluesy style showing stride and boogie-woogie[For more info, click on this link] influences.
		Pat boone (born june 1, 1934) is a singer whose smooth style made one of the most popular performers of the 1950s and 1960s....
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fa/fats_domino.htm (1473 words)

	Fats Domino
		Fats was born Antoine Domino in 1928 in New Orleans.
		Fats could be heard in the background on the records of other artists, such as Joe Turner and Lloyd Price.
		Fats Domino had his final top ten song in 1960 with Walking To New Orleans.
	www.history-of-rock.com /domino.htm (745 words)

	Songwriters Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of eight children in the Domino clan, Fats, as he came to be called, followed the musical lead of his father, a violinist and an uncle, a horn player.
		Fats Domino was the foremost exponent of the resultant rocking blend of the truly distinctive styles of the midfifties.
		Domino remains a principal musical spokesman for a distinctive adjunct of the rock and roll literature, with jumping songs and recordings emblematic of the great culture of New Orleans.
	www.songwritershalloffame.org /exhibit_home_page.asp?exhibitId=109 (468 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Fats Domino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Domino's New Orleans style of piano playing is a combination of traditional jazz, Latin rhythms, blues, Cajun, and boogie woogie that reflects that city's rich heritage of cultural amalgamation.
		Domino's greatest popularity arrived in 1955 with the release of "Ain't That a Shame,;" which became an early rock hit, and although his career began to fade somewhat in the 1960s,; he continued to tour and record into the 1990s.
		Domino formed an especially close professional relationship with Bartholomew, and the pair co-wrote, arranged, and produced most of the singer's material for the next two decades.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200325 (428 words)

	Antoine "Fats" Domino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Domino's first million-selling record, "The Fat Man," was released in 1949, and he was eventually to record 23 gold singles, most of them during rock 'n' roll's formative years, 1955-60.
		Domino, 77, and members of his family soon relocated to the apartment of LSU quarterback JaMarcus Russell, a friend of the Domino family.
		Domino is reluctant to travel outside his hometown for any reason; he famously turned down an invitation from President Clinton to accept an award in Washington, D.C. But he won't be able to return any time soon to his memorabilia-filled home, which likely sustained heavy flood damage.
	www.gatewayno.com /music/Fats_Domino.html (251 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Fats Domino's boogie-woogie life
		Fats Domino, who is reported to have been rescued from New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit, is one of the giants of R&B and rock and roll.
		Born Antoine Dominique Domino on 26 February 1928, the Louisiana native is the best-selling African-American singer of the 1950s and the early 1960s.
		Domino's professional career began with The Fat Man, widely regarded as one of the first rock and roll records, which sold more than a million copies in 1949.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/4208096.stm (457 words)

	Fats Domino rescued in New Orleans - Wikinews
		Fats Domino was found on Monday by a helicopter searching for residents stranded in floodwaters.
		Of Domino's numerous Top 40 singles, perhaps his most notable were Blue Monday and a cover of Blueberry Hill.
		Domino retired from touring in the 1980s, and has not left the city since, citing his dislike of touring, and his love of New Orleans cuisine.
	en.wikinews.org /wiki/Fats_Domino_rescued_in_New_Orleans (543 words)

	Fats Domino - rock and roll music at the RockSite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rock 'n' roll pioneer Fats Domino was among the thousands of New Orleans residents plucked from rising floodwaters, his daughter said Thursday.
		Fats Domino, born Antoine Dominique, was born on 26th February 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
		Fats Domino is a classic R&B singer and was the best-selling African-American singer of the 1950s and early 1960s.
	www.rocksite.info /r-domino-fats.htm (579 words)

	USATODAY.com - Fats Domino finds Big Easy home in ruins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Visiting his home for the first time since he was rescued from rising floodwaters in a boat, Fats Domino found his piano overturned among mud and debris and his house in ruins.
		Domino's fate was not publicly known for several days after the Hurricane Katrina-spawned floods hit the low-lying neighborhood.
		Domino's house was a mansion of pink, yellow and lavender decorated with such touches as his "Cadillac couch," resembling the rear of a 1950s car.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-10-16-fats-domino_x.htm (252 words)

	Fats Domino News
		Fats Domino has apologised to fans for missing his headline appearance at Louisiana's New Orleans Jazz Fest on Sunday, but was "too weak" to take the stage.
		NEW ORLEANS - Even the cancellation of closing-day headliner Fats Domino and a midafternoon squall weren't able to dampen the sense of triumph as the 37th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival came to a...
		Fats Domino is all but retired these days, but the one date he always says yes to is the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, opening today at the Louisiana Fair Grounds.
	www.topix.net /who/fats-domino (631 words)

	FATS DOMINO
		When Fats Domino became a rock 'n' roll star in 1955, few of his young fans knew that he had already been an RandB star for five years.
		Fats' success spelled the beginning of the end for white pop cover versions of RandB hits, and ushered in a new era of recognition for RandB artists.
		In an era when artists' lifespans were measured in weeks or months, Fats Domino was an RandB star for thirteen years and a pop star for eight.
	www.bear-family.de /tabel1/neuheit/spring2003/fats_domino_e.htm (571 words)

	VH1.com : Fats Domino : Fats Domino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Domino was one of nine siblings and was taught to play boogie-woogie piano in his early teens by his brother-in-law, New Orleans musician Harrison Verrett.
		When he was 14, Domino severely injured his fingers while working in a bed-making factory, but he soon regained their use and continued playing the piano.
		Domino had to cut short a tour of Great Britain in the '90s, due to heart problems, for which he underwent open-heart surgery.
	www.vh1.com /artists/news/621526/02252000/domino_fats.jhtml (743 words)

	Fats Domino, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Domino's first single, "The Fat Man" (1949), is one of the dozens of tracks that have been consistently singled out as a candidate for the first rock & roll record.
		Domino's long-range prospects weren't damaged, however; between 1955 and 1963, he racked up an astonishing 35 Top 40 singles.
		The surprise was not that Fats fell out of fashion, but that he'd maintained his popularity so long while the essentials of his style remained unchanged.
	www.emusic.com /artist/10559/10559368.html (505 words)

	Fats Domino
		The most visible fl performer of the 1950s and one of the originators of what would become rock and roll, Antoine "Fats" Domino began to develop his musical skills at a very early age, learning to play the piano from his brother-in-law Harrison Verrett on an age-worn upright owned by his parents.
		Domino's charismatic stage presence was then captured for posterity in 1957 when he appeared in the rock and roll showcase/Jayne Mansfield jiggle-a-thon The Girl Can't Help It.
		Regardless of the fate of his recording career, Fats Domino continued to be a popular live attraction across the decades that followed, and he is widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of popular music.
	www.nndb.com /people/258/000023189 (598 words)

	Fats Domino's Post-Katrina Odyssey - Sep 06, 2005 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The piano-playing pioneer known as the Fat Man, said that after he was rescued on Aug. 29, he was taken to the Super Dome, where he met up with wife Rosemary, their two daughters and a son-in-law.
		Russell says that Domino and his family were among an estimated 20 people sharing his two-bedroom Baton Rouge apartment in the hurricane's aftermath.
		Domino had told family and friends he was not planning to evacuate the city before the hurricane hit.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,17299,00.html (524 words)

	Fats Domino Back in New Orleans - Oct 17, 2005 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Domino and son-in-law Charles Brimmer were able to salvage some jewelry, including a gold ring, in one of the rock 'n' roller's adjoining houses, as well as a favorite shirt and an unbroken bust.
		A rescue boat plucked Domino and his wife from their second-floor balcony shortly after the flood hit.
		The Fat Man and his family are currently staying at a hotel in New Orleans to be close to the neighborhood he was born in while it rebuilds.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,17591,00.html (557 words)

	Fats Domino reported safe -- rescued from floodwaters / Long-time agent had said pioneer rock star missing
		Antoine "Fats" Domino, the rock 'n' roll pioneer who was feared for days to have been a victim of Hurricane Katrina, is apparently safe.
		Karen Domino White, one of his daughters, said Thursday that a photo taken Monday of a man being rescued from floodwaters was her father.
		Domino has lived since the early '60s in the house in a compound in the predominantly working-class neighborhood where he grew up -- 18 blocks from the house where he was born in 1928.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/02/MNGA9EH4D11.DTL (572 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Domino 'shaken' by storm ordeal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Blues legend Fats Domino, who had been reported missing in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, is fine though "a bit stressed out", his agent has said.
		Domino, who was among those who chose not to leave New Orleans, is said to have spent the last few days at a friend's apartment in Baton Rouge.
		Domino was rescued from his home on Monday along with his wife and at least one daughter, but his whereabouts remained unclear until Friday.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/4210564.stm (296 words)

	A Short Biography of Fats Domino
		His first record was "The Fat man", recorded in 1949 and became a R and B hit in 1950 and a gold record in 1953.
		Fats performed in 4 Rock and Roll movies, "The girl can't help it, "Shake rattle and rock", "Jamboree" and "The Big beat".
		The long awaited first-ever biography of Fats Domino is published in May 2006.
	www.fatsonline.nl /fatsbio.html (624 words)

	MSN - News - Fats Domino Missing in New Orleans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		NEW YORK -- Fats Domino was missing Thursday, days after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, said his longtime agent, Al Embry.
		The 77-year-old R&B legend, whose real name is Antoine Domino, told Embry that he planned to stay at his New Orleans house with his wife, Rosemary, and their daughter.
		Domino, who has rarely appeared in public in recent years, has a home in the 9th ward, a low-lying area of the flooded city.
	music.msn.com /music/article.aspx?news=200427&GT1=6952 (320 words)

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