Fats Domino of New Orleans, the Music Mecca

Season 30

Fats Domino, born and raised in New Orleans, was surrounded by music.

Fats Domino, born and raised in New Orleans, and so were his writing partner Dave Bartholomew and bandmates like drummer Earl Palmer. In the late 1940s and 1950s, Cosimo Matassa’s J&M music shop was the only recording studio in New Orleans and became the mecca for record companies looking to cash in on the New Orleans rhythm and blues sound.

AIR DATE 2/26/16

Fats Domino Filmmaker Joe Lauro on Making the Documentary

Fats Domino Concerts: Riots and Rock n' Roll

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Fats Domino of New Orleans, the Music Mecca

Dave Bartholomew, Longtime Collaborator of Fats Domino

Fats Domino: I'm Ready, Performed with The Byrds, 1971

About Fats Domino: American Masters

Discover how Fats Domino’s brand of New Orleans rhythm and blues became rock ‘n’ roll. As popular in the 1950s as Elvis Presley, Domino suffered degradations in the pre-civil rights South and aided integration through his influential music.

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