Biography
His career began sustaining "The Fat Man" (1949, Imperial Records), credited by some when existence a first rock and roll record, featuring a rolling piano & Domino doing wah-wah vocalizing. the record, a reworking of "Junker's Blues" by Champion Jack Dupree, was the massive hit, selling all over a million copies & peaking at #2 on the Billboard R&B Charts. Up to now Domino has sold inside excess of 110 million records.

Domino so freed the series of hit songs using producer & co-writer Dave Bartholomew, saxophonist Alvin "Red" Tyler and drummer Earl Palmer. More leading light & long-standing musicians inside Domino's band were saxist Reggie Houston, Lee Allen, and Fred Kemp who was also Domino's sure bandleader. Domino eventually crossed into a popular mainstream using "Ain't That a Shame" (1955) which hit the Top Ten, though Pat Boone characteristically hit #1 with the cover of the song. Domino freed an unprecedented series of 35 Top 40 singles, including "Whole Lotta Loving", "Blue Monday", and the foul version of the old ballad "Blueberry Hill".

Fallowing he moved to ABC-Paramount inside 1963, the bottom fell away from Domino's recording career although he continued as a popular survive work. Though he remained active for decades, he simply got of these supplementary Top 40 hit, the cover of the Beatles song "Lady Madonna," originally written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney to emulate Domino's style.

In the 1980s, Domino decided he would no elongated leave Just released Orleans, with the comfortable income from either royalties & the dislike for touring, & claiming he may not acquire any food that he liked anywhere else. His induction into a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and an invitation to perform at the White House failed to get Domino to produce an exception to this policy. He sleep within the mansion in the preponderantly working-class 9th Ward neighborhood, where he occurs as familiar sight within his brightly pink Cadillac. He makes each year appearances at a New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and other local events, with performances demonstrating his undiminished talents.

While Hurricane Katrina was approaching New Orleans in August 2005, Domino chose to stay at home sustaining his personal, due to his married woman's unfortunate health. His home was located in Recently Orleans’ 9th Ward, an area that was heavy flooded. In September 1, Al Embry, his agent, announced that he experienced non heard from either Domino since prior to a hurricane experienced struck. Late that day, CNN reported that he was rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter. His girl, Gospel singer Karen Domino White, identified him from the pic shown in CNN. the Domino personal was so taken to a Baton Rouge shelter, after which it were picked higher by & stayed in the flat of JaMarcus Russell, the starting quarterback of the Louisiana State University eleven. A Inland northwest Post has reported that in Friday, September Two, a Dominos left Russell's flat. [http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/01/katrina.fats.domino/index.html] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/02/AR2005090202171.html] He returned to his at home in Saturday, October 15. Apparently his home was looted inside his absence: of his Xxi Gold Records simply trey were however there. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N15108420.htm]

Business

His career has been produced & managed since a Eighties by multimedia system amusement purveyor & music producer Robert G. Vernon. In the period of Vernon's tenure, Domino's earnings keep close at hand increased 500%.

Since 1995, Vernon & Domino keep close at hand been partners (by using numbers of more corporations, like Dick Clark Productions) in the Bobkat Music Trust. Bobkat Music is an amusement class action that manages a careers (a bit of posthumous) of Fats Domino, Elvis Presley, Paul Shaffer (keyboardist), Jerry Lee Lewis, Randy Pringle (writer), and others. Bobkat Music is the official holder of rights (of record) to "Fats Domino and Friends" (virtually all watched favorite around Cinemax history, winner of the ACE Award for "Cinemax Sessions"), does'nt to mention a award-winning Fats Domino TV commercial message for Popeye's Chicken, & is headquartered in the San Francisco East Bay area.

Trivia

A singer Chubby Checker's stage name was the play in Fats Domino.

In the popular Seventies sitcom "Happy Days", set in the 1950s, lead character Richie Cunningham, played by Ron Howard, would often sing "I found my thrill..." (a number one line of Domino's "Blueberry Hill") around information to jolly girls he dated or even wanted up to now.