The Very Best Of Fats Domino

Fats Domino was the Best and his CDs are still the Best.

Great Album!!!!!!! My wife loves it!!!!!!!!!

True rock and roll. Wish we could bring them all back - Elvis, Jerry Lee, Fats, etc. etc.

Flawless service and perfectly packaged item!!

i just like fats

It is a great gift for all ages. Fats Domino is/was a one of a kind artist and his songs are classic, even my 20+ year old loves his music. After discovering a vinyl album in a local resale record shop, she found this beautiful gold album on Amazon and decided to have it sent to an older family member and he is also enjoying it!

"My Blue Heaven - The Best of Fats Domino," EMI Imperial, 1990, is a good, thorough compilation of all the 1950's hits, on Imperial, that made the piano-playing Domino famous. And a few more seminal bits and pieces, too: the Cd's got 20 cuts in all. It's also a solid illustration of what makes Domino one of New Orleans' (his home town's), most engaging, entertaining exports.The cuts included here, like all Domino's work for Imperial, were produced by his close, long-term friend Dave Bartholomew, and what a stroke of luck that proved for the musician. Domino and Bartholomew also wrote many of the biggest hits together: I expect those royalties have added up to quite a mountain of Carnival gewgaws over the years. Seems like Domino got in on the ground floor, when Bartholomew and Lew Chudd, owner of Imperial, joined forces, and went looking for exciting new acts around the Big Easy. They found the barely twenty year old Domino playing a local club, utilizing a half-forgotten old-style of pianism, what they called locally jailhouse blues. Nobody else was doing it - Bartholomew and Chudd were blown away. The trio cut their first single, "The Fat Man," in 1950, and, for several years thereafter, Domino's work languished in rhythm and blues. But times were changing, and Domino crossed over into rock and roll with "Ain't It A Shame," in 1955. If you were around at the time, you'll know that the white singer Pat Boone quickly covered it, as "Ain't That a Shame," and had a pretty big hit with it, too. But Domino and Bartholomew were getting the royalties, even so, and were able to cry all the way to the bank.Many more hits followed, several of them covered by white performers at the time. But the hits live to this day, alive on the radio and in our hearts, in Domino's smooth stylings. Every one of them is in this compilation: the title song, of course, and "I'm In Love Again,""When My Dreamboat Comes Home,""Blueberry Hill, "Blue Monday,""I'm Walking," "Whole Lotta Loving,""I Want to Walk You Home," and "Walking to New Orleans."You have to say that these guys had a big hand in creating rock and roll, ribald, good time category.Some years ago, I was lucky enough to see Domino in person, in Las Vegas. He was good-humored, highly entertaining - and, perhaps he was inspired by the venue, but those diamond rings all over his piano-playing hands winked, flashed and sparkled in the limelight. He's definitely one of the more engaging exports to come out of New Orleans.

The music on the CD was as rxpecyrdEverything was done well.

Wir hören immer mal wieder gerne alte Musik.Fans Domino ist klasse.

Reçu dans les délais et hyper bien protégé.J’ai pu profiter d’une écoute excellente.Très belle album

I'm generally down-sizing my collection a bit, and as newer, better and cheaper reissues keep coming onto the market, I find perhaps one album that'll cover several which might have a few duff tracks on. Always liked Fats, and in fact saw him at London's Saville Theatre, back in 1967 I think, anyway it was at a time when the Bee Gees were still a support act. I felt so sorry for them as the maturing Teddy Boys who made up a lot of the audience virtually booed them off stage by chanting 'We want Fats'. Wonder what sort of money grabbing Promoter thought that little 'mismatch' up? Anyway, Fats was quite brilliant of course, as is this collection -- all his commercial hits together in one place. If you don't want to go too deeply into his very lengthy career, then I recommend this package..

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A joyful listen