Day 5 and the cruise is almost to its end with the last stop in St. Thomas. This was an exciting day!
I have a new animal friend named Fats Domino! Fats is a baby pitbull mix, and mom met him...
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Rock-USA
"Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino (born February 26, 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana), is a classic R&B and rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist. He was the best-selling African-American singer of the 1950s and early 1960s. Domino is also a fine pianist with an individualistic bluesy style showing stride and boogie-woogie influences. His congenial personality and rich accent have
Saturday night, May 19, was not just your run-of-the-mill, ordinary evening in the unordinary city of New Orleans. It was instead a night not soon to be forgotten for fans, both young and old, of legend Fats Domino. The rock hall of famer, who lost his home to hurricane Katrina in 2005, made a grand showing at a local nightclub that wont soon be forgotten.
The most popular exponent of the classic New Orleans R&B sound, Fats Domino sold more records than any other black rock & roll star of the 1950s. His relaxed, lolling boogie-woogie piano style and easygoing, warm vocals anchored a long series of national hits from the mid-'50s to the early '60s. Through it all, his basic approach rarely changed. He may not have been one of early rock's most charismatic, innovative, or threatening figures, but he was certainly one of its most consistent.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. As far as Fats was concerned, he was just playing what he'd already been doing in New Orleans for years, and would continue to play and sing in pretty much the same fashion even after his music was dubbed "rock & roll."The record made number two on the R&B charts, and sold a million copies. Just as important, it established a vital partn
