Fats Domino teaches us the “Roll” in Rock N’ Roll and can’t remember the words to his most famous song .
05 Fats Domino – This Is Fats
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I think the book (and subsequent releases) get the album title and cover wrong. I have This Is Fats and This Is Fats Domino on vinyl and This Is Fats Domino has this track listing. This Is Fats, with this cover, has a completely different set of song s. Just found that interesting as it prevented me from purchasing the vinyl for years because I was convinced this cover was what I was looking for, but when I finally found it, it was incorrect, which was confirmed when I did the research. Great episode though. Looking forward to diving into more from this bible of great music.
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The television show “Happy Days” was filmed in the 1970’s but set in the 1950’s. It was a running gag on the show that whenever Richie Cunningham would “make it” with a girl (offscreen, of course), he’d appear in the next scene, bold as brass, singing Fats Domino’s version of “Blueberry Hill”. It was his way of celebrating what had just happened. His way of giving thanks for being happy, for having indulged in a rite of passage, and for simply being alive.
https://youtu.be/o20YZ9B5BaQ?si=V5ceaCHJ4Rl1T7TqThat carrot-topped freak would stroll right past his mom and dad and little sister, walking bowlegged, reeking of sex, sticky love juices quickly drying on his be-freckled face, incubating a virulent case of the clap he’d just picked up in the backseat of his jalopy from Pinkie Tuscadero, with a shit-eating grin on his face and singing “Blueberry Hill.”
That nasty little ginger sex fiend had no shame. Walking right up to his cornfed midwestern momma with her bouffant and her apron, doing a “I just blew a bitch’s back out and since this is the 1950’s she’s probably going to get pregnant and have to drop out of school and have the baby in secret in a dingy charity hospital in Chicago and give it up for adoption and slink back into town ten months later and say she was recovering from polio but everyone will know what really happened and she’ll never be employed in anything other than a service job and no one decent will marry her while I marry the bank president’s daughter and start working in his bank as a vice-president right out of Wisconsin University and turn her down for a loan to open a beauty shop fifteen years later because she doesn’t have an upstanding reputation even after all that time and she has this emptiness inside and never stops wondering if her baby is okay” touchdown celebration dance, singing “🎶I found my thrill, on Blueberry Hill🎶.”
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