The tragedy of Hurricane Katrina only emphasized the fact that New Orleans was perhaps the wellspring of popular music in the 20 th Century-the source, or a major tributary, of jazz, blues, gospel, ...

The 1956 release reached #1 on the R&B chart and #3 on the Hot 100. The fourth most popular song is “I Hear You Knocking,” a 1961 release that made a small splash on the charts. His fifth most spun ...

Classic rock star Fats Domino recorded a song by one of The Monkees’ regular songwriters. Notably, the song in question became a huge hit for Domino. During a passage from his memoir, another one of ...

Fats Domino, born and raised in New Orleans, was surrounded by music as a child. “New Orleans produces a disproportionately large amount of talented musicians and it really comes up with the raw ...

A young New Orleans singer and piano player named Antoine “Fats” Domino stepped into Cosimo Matassa’s J&M Studio 75 years ago this week to record the song which launched him to international fame — ...

New Orleans songwriter, producer, trumpet player, and Fats Domino collaborator Dave Bartholomew died today, the Washington Post reports. His death was confirmed by his son Ron Bartholomew, who did not ...

Icons from the world of rock, blues, reggae, pop and country music have joined together to salute the genius of legendary piano man FATS DOMINO for the double CD set, Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats ...

When a friend of Fats Domino‘s invited filmmaker Joe Lauro to hang out at Domino’s New Orleans house in the early 2000s, he knew he had to make a film about the rock & roll architect. More than a ...

NEW ORLEANS - Fats Domino broke into soft song as he stepped slowly through his gutted house in the city's flood-ravaged 9th Ward on Friday. Sometimes the Hall of Fame piano man murmured a line of his ...

Dave Bartholomew, the New Orleans musician, Fats Domino collaborator and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee who co-wrote the R&B classic “Ain’t That a Shame,” has died at the age of 100. Bartholomew ...

Dave Bartholomew, a giant of New Orleans music and a rock ‘n’ roll pioneer who with Fats Domino co-wrote and produced such classics as “Ain’t That A Shame,” ″I’m Walkin’,” and “Let The Four Winds Blow ...

The Songwriters Hall of Fame inducted Domino and Bartholomew in 1997. In 1999, National Public Radio named Domino’s “Ain’t That a Shame” (the first song John Lennon ever learned) as one of the 100 ...